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Re:Super Resolution by Izkata on Thursday March 18, 2021 @07:55PM (#26508862)
> Originally super-resolution was a hardware technique, and not "guessing". If you can [edit: this was poorly worded "control an imager positioning"] control imaging with finer resolution than the sensor has, you can take multiple images and reconstruct a higher resolution image in a principled way for say 2x resolution gain (cf super-resolution microscopy), also some telescope systems.

Isn't this also how our eyes work?

Re:Super Resolution by Valgrim on Thursday March 18, 2021 @08:18PM (#26509008)
Not really. Our visual cortex does something closer to the new fancy photoshop algorithm (filling in imaginary detail from a mental model in memory). Super-resolution techniques such as the one described above is more like a mathemathical function based on a statistical values, so it extracts real information hidden in the difference between each image.
Re:Super Resolution by BearOso on Thursday March 18, 2021 @09:53PM (#26509500)
It does both. Your brain interpolates the image, but the eye also uses interferometry to generate extra detail by moving the eye back and forth really quickly (microtremors). The result is that we glean more true information than can be determined by just measuring rod or cone frequency.