Researchers from Adobe presented some cool new image enhancement technology at SIGGRAPH, NRDC: Non-Rigid Dense Correspondence with Applications for Image Enhancement. They’ve developed methods for analyzing shared regions of the images with different lighting and backgrounds to adjust color matching, aid procedural masking, and deblur images.
You can find more information (including a PDF of the paper and additional results) on the project page at Hebrew University. There more from SIGGRAPH in 4 reports by Fxguide; here’s the video for the image enhancement project:
NRDC: Non-Rigid Dense Correspondence with Applications for Image Enhancement from Yoav HaCohen on Vimeo.