looking around corners using femto-photography and transient imaging

Raskar, Camera Culture, MIT Media Lab

Camera Culture

Ramesh Raskar

Camera CultureMIT Media Lab

Ramesh Raskar

Can you look around the corner ?

Can you look around the corner ?

Without any gadget in the line of sight

Can you look around the corner ?

2nd Bounce

Multi-path Analysis

1st Bounce

3rd Bounce

…, rescue operations, …

Collision avoidance, robot navigation, …

…, bronchoscopies, …

…, colonoscopies, …

…, cardioscopies, …

Femto-Photography: Higher Dimensional LF

FemtoFlash

UltraFast Detector

Computational Optics

Serious Sync

Kirmani, Hutchison, Davis, RaskarICCV 2009, Marr Prize #2

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Femtosecond Laser Picosecond Camera

Transient Impulse Imaging

Space

Tim

eRaw Camera Images (before Shape Recovery)

Raw Camera Images (before Shape Recovery)

Raw Camera Images (before Shape Recovery)

Bits

Photon

s

Computer Vision

Optics

Sensors

Computational Photography & Imaging

Signal Processing

Displays

Machine Learning

Raskar, Camera Culture, MIT Media Lab

Camera Culture

Ramesh Raskar

Camera CultureMIT Media Lab

Ramesh Raskar http://raskar.inforaskar@mit.edu

Team

Moungi G. Bawendi, Professor, Dept of Chemistry, MITJames Davis, UC Santa CruzAndreas Velten, Postdoctoral Associate, MIT Media LabAhmed Kirmani, RA, MIT Media LabTyler Hutchison, RA, MIT Media LabRohit Pandharkar, RA, MIT Media LabAndrew Matthew Bardagjy, RA, MIT Media LabEverett Lawson, MIT Media Lab