To know what is happening on the other side of the wall is not a fantasy anymore. Researchers have developed technologies that could see through the walls. Now it is not only limited to superheroes in the movies to see through the walls with his secret powers, a normal human might just be able to a little too.
In 2015, one research proposed of seeing around the corners by spitting laser light beams on the surfaces that are placed near the corner. As a result, these surfaces could act like mirrors and scatter those laser light beams onto the hidden objects. The light that was reflected off from the hidden objects and surfaces can be analysed by scanners to predict the hidden object.
However, developers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab have discovered the solution to see around the corners through a camera only. The people behind this study have named these cameras as "Corner cameras". These corner cameras work on the basis of light reflected off the outer parts of the objects which is also called as the penumbra. Several images of the penumbra are analyzed and connected together letting the system estimated the distance of the hidden objects in reality.
These corner cameras need to be held steadily and requires a stationary camera. Therefore, in incidents like a collision of a car where corner cameras could have been helpful to actually avoid the collision cannot be equipped with stationary and stable camera. The researchers are now working on the camera that can work on a moving object to let car drivers to see around the blind corners to avoid accidents.
The researchers are also working now to make these cameras work in low light conditions as well which previously it failed to do so. If these improvements are successfully made then we can see the around the corners and have a 360 degree vision by just using a smartphone camera.
https://www.livescience.com/60636-smartphone-cameras-see-around-corners.html
https://www.inverse.com/article/37171-ai-research-blindspot
In 2015, one research proposed of seeing around the corners by spitting laser light beams on the surfaces that are placed near the corner. As a result, these surfaces could act like mirrors and scatter those laser light beams onto the hidden objects. The light that was reflected off from the hidden objects and surfaces can be analysed by scanners to predict the hidden object.
However, developers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab have discovered the solution to see around the corners through a camera only. The people behind this study have named these cameras as "Corner cameras". These corner cameras work on the basis of light reflected off the outer parts of the objects which is also called as the penumbra. Several images of the penumbra are analyzed and connected together letting the system estimated the distance of the hidden objects in reality.
These corner cameras need to be held steadily and requires a stationary camera. Therefore, in incidents like a collision of a car where corner cameras could have been helpful to actually avoid the collision cannot be equipped with stationary and stable camera. The researchers are now working on the camera that can work on a moving object to let car drivers to see around the blind corners to avoid accidents.
The researchers are also working now to make these cameras work in low light conditions as well which previously it failed to do so. If these improvements are successfully made then we can see the around the corners and have a 360 degree vision by just using a smartphone camera.
https://www.livescience.com/60636-smartphone-cameras-see-around-corners.html
https://www.inverse.com/article/37171-ai-research-blindspot
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