8"what you'd get would simply be the super-resolution sum of all the other Texas license plates."*
I do not think so. That sum would not look like any other Texas license plate. Instead, it would locally pick the best fit parts to what data it can find in the image. Chances are their algorithm works at different scales; the better they can mix the information at different scales correctly, the smaller the risk that those local best fits are inconsistent with each other (for example, the left of a letter might look like a b, while the right looks like a q. If the algorithm does not look at scales of the width of a character, it could easily produce something that combines the two characters into one. Looking at that Snellen chart example, I think I see something like that in the top/bottom of some of the characters (last line should probably read D K N T W U L J S P X V M R A H C F O Y Z G; see http://guereros.info/img.php?fl=p5r4p4m4d4n2t24606s4t2m416d4...)
I think that, if there is sufficient data in the image, chances are good (but not necessarily 100%) that the result will be a sharp representation of the real license plate. Chances are also good that it would remove that barely visible dead fly from the plate. If there is insufficient information, it would pick a valid license plate that fit the data best. It would be nice if the algorithm also computed some validity estimates (a bit like an alpha mask 'my confidence in predicting this pixel is x%')
I do not think so. That sum would not look like any other Texas license plate. Instead, it would locally pick the best fit parts to what data it can find in the image. Chances are their algorithm works at different scales; the better they can mix the information at different scales correctly, the smaller the risk that those local best fits are inconsistent with each other (for example, the left of a letter might look like a b, while the right looks like a q. If the algorithm does not look at scales of the width of a character, it could easily produce something that combines the two characters into one. Looking at that Snellen chart example, I think I see something like that in the top/bottom of some of the characters (last line should probably read D K N T W U L J S P X V M R A H C F O Y Z G; see http://guereros.info/img.php?fl=p5r4p4m4d4n2t24606s4t2m416d4...)
I think that, if there is sufficient data in the image, chances are good (but not necessarily 100%) that the result will be a sharp representation of the real license plate. Chances are also good that it would remove that barely visible dead fly from the plate. If there is insufficient information, it would pick a valid license plate that fit the data best. It would be nice if the algorithm also computed some validity estimates (a bit like an alpha mask 'my confidence in predicting this pixel is x%')