Researchers have developed a novel way to give any modern digital camera the ability to calculate depth with a low-power and compact optical device.
By "depth" they actually mean how far away things are.
#photography #LIDAR #Depth-Imaging #ComputationalPhotography
Computational photography pioneer Marc Levoy argues “straight photography,” an idea popularized by Ansel Adams, is a myth.
Levoy, an Adobe VP and Fellow, was recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering and was recognized for his work in computer graphics and digital/computational photography. In a recent interview with Adobe, Levoy was asked for his thoughts on the photography industry and one major aspect of it stood out: his argument that the concept of straight photography does not actually exist.
The concept doesn't exist? I think they mean that the concept has no real-world referent. Of course, Levoy is right, and for all of the reasons he states. But neurology goes one step further and gets straight to the point. Some (many) photographers say, "That photo doesn't look like reality". But our brains construct our reality from the data input via our senses. And when we process our photos to look "the way I remember it", our brains reconstruct that memory from the stored result of that input data. Computational photography is just an AI doing the same thing.
#photography #ComputationalPhotography #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #neurology
https://petapixel.com/2022/03/10/computational-photo-pioneer-no-such-thing-as-a-straight-photograph/
