[4eyes] Femto-photography
Theodore Kim
kim at mat.ucsb.edu
Tue Dec 13 14:17:56 PST 2011
This was also shown at SIGGRAPH this year:
http://www.siggraph.org/s2011/for_attendees/talks/sessions/122
Can't think of a killer app, but you could actually see light undergoing
multi-inter-reflection inside a crystal, which was really something.
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Daniel Vaquero <daniel at cs.ucsb.edu> wrote:
> Besides the "coolness" factor, I think it could be used in anything that
> could benefit from knowing how light travels and interacts with the world,
> e.g., inferring surface materials. Or scene relighting - capturing the
> light travel paths and then manipulating those to create new images. One of
> the articles say the equipment costs $250,000, and it also looks quite
> bulky, so it seems there's still a long way to go for making this more
> practical. But I think the initial results are very interesting.
>
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Cha Lee <chalee21 at cs.ucsb.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hmmm... maybe I'm just not familiar with the domain but it's hard for
>> me to see the applications for this.
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Daniel Vaquero <daniel at cs.ucsb.edu>
>> wrote:
>> > Interesting project from Ramesh's group at MIT:
>> >
>> > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16163931
>> >
>> > Daniel
>> >
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>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Cha Lee
>> PhD Candidate
>> University of California, Santa Barbara
>>
>
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