Techniques for modifying an image to reduce smear

A processing system comprising:

• a first circuitry configured to receive at least two sequential images from a night vision camera;
• a second circuitry configured to align the at least two sequential images based on motion data from a tracker system, and after aligning the at least two sequential images, the second circuitry is configured to average pixel intensities over the aligned at least two sequential images, to generate an averaged image, and the second circuitry configured to apply a filter to the averaged image, to generate a filtered averaged image, wherein one or more filter coefficients of the filter are based on the motion data from the tracker system and a shutter time of the night vision camera, and wherein the motion data comprises a change in orientation of the night vision camera from which a change in orientation of the at least one image is determined;
• and
• a third circuitry configured to output the filtered averaged image.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium encoded with instructions that when executed by one or more processors causes a process to be carried out, the process comprising:

• receiving at least two sequential images from a night vision camera;
• aligning the at least two sequential images based on motion data from a tracker system, and after aligning the at least two sequential images, averaging pixel intensities over the aligned at least two sequential images, to generate an averaged image, wherein the motion data comprises a change in orientation of the night vision camera from which a change in orientation of the at least two sequential images is determined and which is used in the aligning;
• applying a filter to the averaged image, to generate a filtered averaged image, wherein one or more filter coefficients of the filter are based on the motion data from the tracker system and a shutter time of the night vision camera;
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• outputting the filtered averaged image.