"Necessity is the mother of all
invention."
Necessity is the driving force to innovation. However, necessity left
to
its own devices will not produce innovations. Necessity must be coupled
with
knowledge, vision, persistence, creativity, and of course luck. These
are
the elements that all successful inventors bring to the laboratory
table.
These are the elements that produce solutions.
Quarktet
invents, develops, and markets innovative technologies to companies and
corporations for mutual benefit, while also bringing select
technologies direct to market. We seek collaborations, with both
industry
and academia, that will bring about the development and
commercialization
of our technologies. On this website, we are showcasing our two most
promising
technologies, SeDDaRA and GCLAD, and our great image processing
software, Tria V2.5.1.
Tria and the SeDDaRA method were
featured in AstroPhoto Insight™ Magazine in April 2008. AstroPhoto Insight is a
bi-monthly digital magazine dedicated to sharing the latest
innovations and techniques in the field of cutting-edge amateur
astrophotography. Even without de-blurrring, many of their images
are amazing!
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SeDDaRA is a patented award-winning data restoration
algorithm, that removes degradations from signals and
images.
The process is performed without prior knowledge of the degradation or
detection system, a technique known as 'blind deconvolution'. The
aberration is identified, cleaned, and removed from the original data.
For
a classic example, Figure 1 is an image taken with the Hubble telescope
before the optical correction was performed in 1993. The aberration was
identified using
SeDDaRA, and the image was restored using a pseudo-inverse filter. The
result
is shown in Figure 2. In addition to the planet and its rings being
much
sharper, stars in the background become apparent.
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| Fig.1: Image of Saturn as soon
by the Hubble telescope before the optical correction in 1993. |
Fig. 2: The restored image
after application of SeDDaRA and a pseudo-inverse filter. |
SeDDaRA
has widespread applications ranging from improving medical images,
restoring digital photography, and enhancing the frequency response of sound systems. What makes SeDDaRA so
exciting is that
it is easy to implement, easier to use, works in just a few seconds,
and
is amazingly effective. (See our new image processing software here.)
Tria Screen Shot
