Show HN: Vhoto – Find photos in your videos

But at a low resolution and at a slow framerate.

And on a more personal note.. photography's been a huge hobby of mine for a long time. So it's been a ton of fun working on a new kind of camera.

Would love to get your feedback! Both about what's there now in version 1, and where you would like to see this go in the future..

Thanks

Thanks! Try it out and let me know what hit/missed. There are a surprising number of techniques for affecting IQ on iOS, so specific feedback is great.

While you make a valid point (for some people), please try to be more civil.

Remember that a real person spent time & energy working on writing and releasing this app. You likely wouldn't say your last sentence to this person in real life, so please refrain from writing it here.

for cookingrobot:

Just letting you know that I agree with this comment's point (though not its tone).

Could this be made available without all the social and sharing stuff? :) Maybe after you build your user base you can open source it? (free for people like us but not jeopardizing your competitive advantage since you already have the network)

It may sound weird.. but these kind of tradeoffs work to our advantage. There are fundamental limits to performance, filesize, bandwidth that everyone has to deal with. The fact that it's such a high-dimensional space means we can find a niche and optimize for cases that current cameras are missing.

We talk to people who totally do that. They're the perfect proto-users who get why this is useful.

The Vhoto app just makes that easier, and helps jump to interesting / distinct / clear frames. You can do it entirely by hand by trying to scrub to the right frame, but point of the app (and the computer vision algos behind it) is to make it easy and do most of the work for you.

That may work for 1 video and a few stills. Now try hundreds of videos and stills. I sure as hell don't want to wade through that.

I have no idea if this app does this (I don't think it does; it seems to just detect motion blurred frames and discard those as good candidates), but you can actually pull a lot more detail/sharpness out using multi-frame super-resolution algorithms over a series of frames (even if there is movement from frame to frame) rather than just pulling the video codec data out for one frame.