Holographic camera sees the unseen with high precision

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Vision systems and modules for cameras are making great leaps in their technical capabilities. The results of research and development project are often commercialized rather quickly. The newest camera technology developed by Northwestern’s team of researchers can see objects that are around physical obstacles or hidden by media like skin, fog or skull bones. The resolution of images that this holographic device produces is high. There is an obvious application of such cameras in autonomous vehicles or imaging for medical purposes, but the team believes that applications are limitless.

Key Takeaways:

Researchers invented a camera that can see around corners and through skin, fog and potentially even the human skull.
Non-line-of-sight imaging has potentially beneficial uses in medicine, automobile systems, and industrial inspection.
Around corners, light bounces off an opaque barrier, hits a object, then bounces back to the detector.

“The relatively new research field of imaging objects behind occlusions or scattering media is called non-line-of-sight (NLoS) imaging.”

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