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The article says this is an advance in the speed of processing light field images. Also the bit about seeing around an opaque object, which I'm not sure what th
by sp332 4y ago
The article says this is an advance in the speed of processing light field images. Also the bit about seeing around an opaque object, which I'm not sure what that means but could be an interesting first?
- klodolph 4y ago> Also the bit about seeing around an opaque object, which I'm not sure what that means but could be an interesting first? It's just a property of light field cameras. Technically, other cameras can do it to some extent too. If there's some opaque object with another object behind it, 1. If you focus on the front object, you'll see the object behind it--blurred. 2. If you focus on the back object, you'll be able to see the back object behind the blur of the front object. With a light field camera, you can essentially "cut away" the blurry parts and get them in focus. You're not able to see anything new, you're just able to see things in the original image more clearly.
- sp332 4y agoSure, but that's not new. I was wondering if they did something extra.
- grumbel 4y agoApplied Science has a good video[1] showing how you can look around objects. He is using a regular lens there, but with a lightfield camera you can emulate basically any lens you want in software as long as the captured lightfield is big enough. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ4yL6kaV1A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ4yL6kaV1A