Why Video Stabilization Needs to be More Flexible

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Not all shakiness is bad. Cutting-edge software applies the right level of stabilization to video captured by cameras in motion.

www.eetimes.eu, Jun. 12, 2021 – 

Since the first consumer picked up a video camera and pointed it at her two-year-old blowing out birthday candles (then accidentally pointed it at the ceiling, then shook it while laughing when the two-year old ate cake with his hands), people have struggled with video stabilization. They may not have known that's what it's called, but they've known that the video they were recording was often shaky–stomach-churning, distractingly shaky. Many lugged tripods wherever they went; others eventually invested in higher-end digital video cameras with special image-stabilization hardware that helped keep junior more still in the video frame.

Fast forward to now. Virtually everyone carries a high-quality video camera in their smartphone. Amateurs, professionals, public safety workers, and others are flying drones fitted with video cameras to capture footage of everything from sporting events to dangerous wildfires. More police jurisdictions are requiring their officers to wear body cameras to record their interactions with the public. Forget tripods – today's cameras are in motion by nature and they're generating enough video to fill up 80% of the entire Internet, according to Cisco. That's a lot of potentially shaky video, making video stabilization even more challenging.

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