
The Infinite Retina
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DARPA had a challenge: can you take a photo through a bush?
That led to computer vision breakthroughs at Stanford University and other places that are still changing how we look at capturing images today. That challenge, back in 2007, caused Stanford University researcher, Marc Levoy, to move away from using a single lens to take a photo and, instead, build a grid of cameras, all connected to a computer where the software would gather rays of light coming through a bush and collect them piece by piece from all the different cameras, creating a light field. Then, a computer would re-assemble those pieces, sort of like putting together a puzzle.
Today, the light field concept has shrunk from using individual cameras arranged on a set of shelves to using pieces of image sensors, sometimes even putting microscopic lenses on top, and the field of computer vision has greatly...
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