Extracting Audio From Visual Information 142
rtoz writes Researchers at MIT, Microsoft, and Adobe have developed an algorithm that can reconstruct an audio signal by analyzing minute vibrations of objects depicted in video. In one set of experiments, they were able to recover intelligible speech from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag (video) photographed from 15 feet away through soundproof glass.
Scary (Score:3, Interesting)
This is cool, yet scary stuff.
I wonder how loud the original audio has to be in order to be recovered in this manner? It sounded to me like the spoken words were being shouted, and we have no way of knowing how loud the music was played. I didn't see any mention of that in the linked article.
The linked article has additional technical(ish) information that's not in the video.
Requires a very high speed camera (Score:5, Interesting)