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Nodda Duma
If you consider the "downsampling operator" is analogous to the optical point spread function and the Nyquist frequency for the imaging system, then you'll understand why this technique and others like it are not only theoretically possible, but practically possible as well.
This isn't the only approach nor are they working in a vacuum. Super-resolution techniques have been actively employed for over a decade, seeing first widespread use in smart phone cameras.
So yeah, it is a reality. Their research, like almost all research, is a small slice of ongoing incremental advancement in a field which the public conscious is only dimly aware of. So I have to chuckle at naysaying that sounds akin to explaining why this internet thing will never take off.
If you think this is amazing technology, look at actual hot optical engineering research topics such as computational optics or plastic GRIN lens printing, graphene detector research, or laminated infrared optics.
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