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Lucid Technologies, a new UPF spinoff, is to bring to the audiovisual market computer products that will streamline the film postproduction process, automatically improving films aesthetic appearance. Thus, the company will exploit cutting-edge technologies protected by two international patents developed by the Image Processing for Enhanced Cinematography (IP4EC) research group of the UPF Department of Information and Communication Technologies (DTIC).
The company s first product is a computer program that will help film professionals to perform an essential task more quickly and easily in any post-production process of a film. This stage, called technical grade, consists of reviewing the entire recording and fixing whatever is necessary so that the images have a natural appearance to the audience s eyes in terms of lighting, colour and contrast. This process requires many hours of work by specialized professionals.