In one aspect, the present invention provides a dynamic super-resolution technique that is computationally efficient. A recursive computation takes as input a previously computed super-resolved image derived from a sequence of low-resolution input frames. Combining this super-resolved image with a later low-resolution input frame in the sequence, the technique produces a new super-resolved image. By recursive application, a sequence of super-resolved images is produced. In a preferred embodiment, the technique uses a computationally simple and effective method based on adaptive filtering for computing a high resolution image and updating this high resolution image over time to produce an enhanced sequence of images. The method may be implemented as a general super-resolution software tool capable of handing a wide variety of input image data.
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