May 20, 2022, Atul Ingle
"End-to-end" design of computational camerasA team from MIT Media Lab has posted a new arXiv preprint titled "Physics vs. Learned Priors: Rethinking Camera and Algorithm Design for Task-Specific Imaging".Abstract: Cameras were originally designed using physics-based heuristics to capture aesthetic images.
May 12, 2022, Atul Ingle
Photonics magazine article on Pi Imaging SPAD arrayPhotonics magazine has a new article about Pi Imaging Technology's high resolution SPAD sensor array; some excerpts below.
May 10, 2022, Gordon Laing
Best lens for a vintage DSLR?Join me as I track down an ideal lens for Nikon's first DSLR, the D1! I narrowed my choices to a pair of older 35mm models and in this article and video I compare them head-to-head!…
May 5, 2022, Atul Ingle
Lightweight object detection on the edgeEdge Impulse announced its new object detection algorithm, dubbed Faster Objects, More Objects (FOMO), targeting extremely power and memory constrained computer vision applications.
May 3, 2022, Atul Ingle
Extreme depth-of-field light field cameraAn article titled "Trilobite-inspired neural nanophotonic light-field camera with extreme depth-of-field" by Q. Fan et al. proposes a metalens design inspired by the bi-focal vision system of an extinct marine arthropod.
April 29, 2022, Atul Ingle
Color sensing for nano-vision-sensorsNingxin Li et al. from Georgia State University have published a new article titled "Van der Waals Semiconductor Empowered Vertical Color Sensor" in ACS Nano.
April 27, 2022, Gordon Laing
Sony FE 24-70mm f2.8 GM II reviewThe Sony FE 24-70mm f2.8 G Master II is a high-end standard zoom aimed at event and wedding photographers, or anyone who wants the best quality general-purpose lens for their Alpha mirrorless camera.
April 25, 2022, Atul Ingle
Perspective article on solar-blind UV photodetectorsA research group from the Indian Institute of Science has published a perspective article titled "The road ahead for ultrawide bandgap solar-blind UV photodetectors" in the Journal of Applied Physics.
April 20, 2022, Atul Ingle
PhD Thesis on Analog Signal Processing for CMOS Image SensorsThe very first PhD thesis that came out of Albert Theuwissen's group at TU Delft is now freely available as a pdf. This seems like a great educational resource for people interested in image sensors.Direct download link: https://repository.tudelft.
April 18, 2022, Gordon Laing
Fujifilm XF 23mm f1.4 R LM WR reviewThe Fujifilm XF 23mm f1.4 R LM WR is a wide-angle prime lens for X-mount mirrorless cameras. It delivers mild wide coverage equivalent to 35mm, while the bright f1.4 focal ratio allows shallow depth of field effects.
April 13, 2022, Atul Ingle
Harvest Imaging Forum 2022 is open for registration!After the Harvest Imaging forums during the last 7 years, an eighth one will be organized on June 23 & 24, 2022 in Delft, the Netherlands.
April 11, 2022, Gordon Laing
Fujifilm XF 33mm f1.4 R LM WR reviewThe Fujifilm XF 33mm f1.4 R LM WR is a bright standard prime lens for X-mount mirrorless cameras with plenty of opportunity for shallow depth of field effects.
April 4, 2022, Atul Ingle
Hamamatsu videosHamamatsu has published new videos on their latest products and technologies.ORCA-Quest quantitative CMOS (qCMOS) scientific camera: With ultra-low read noise of 0.27 electrons (rms), a high pixel count of 9.
March 31, 2022, Atul Ingle
Product Videos: STMicro and Airy3DLow power, low noise 3D iToF 0.5 Mpix sensorThe VD55H1 is a low-noise, low-power, 672 x 804 pixel (0.54 Mpix), indirect Time-of-Flight (iToF) sensor die manufactured on advanced backside-illuminated, stacked wafer technology.
March 29, 2022, Atul Ingle
Hamamatsu Develops World's First THz Image IntensifierHamamatsu Photonics has developed the world’s first terahertz image intensifier (THz image intensifier or simply THz-I.I.) by leveraging its imaging technology fostered over many years. This THz-I.I.
March 27, 2022, Atul Ingle
Lensless Imaging with Fresnel Zone PlatesAlthough the idea of Fresnel zone plates is not new and can be traced back several decades to X-ray imaging and perhaps to Fresnel's original paper from 1818*, there is renewed interest in this idea for visible light imaging due to the need for compact form-factor cameras.
May 19, 2022, Atul Ingle
Advanced Navigation Acquires Vai PhotonicsAdvanced Navigation, one of the world’s most ambitious innovators in AI robotics, and navigation technology has today announced the acquisition of Vai Photonics, a spin-out from The Australian National University (ANU) developing patented photonic sensors for precision navigation.
May 11, 2022, Atul Ingle
Newsight CMOS ToF sensor releaseNESS ZIONA, Israel, Feb. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Newsight Imaging - a leading semiconductor innovator developing machine vision sensors, spectral vision chips, and systems - announced today the upcoming release of the NSI9000 one-chip (non-stacked) CMOS image sensor solution for depth imaging.
May 9, 2022, Atul Ingle
Dotphoton and Hamamatsu partnering on raw image compressionFrom Novus Light news:Dotphoton, an industry-leading raw image compression company and Hamamatsu Photonics, a world leader in optical systems and photonics manufacturing, are pleased to announce their new partnership.
May 4, 2022, Atul Ingle
Low Light Video DenoisingA team from UC Berkeley and Intel Labs has posted a new pre-print titled "Dancing under the stars: video denoising in starlight". They present a new method for denoising videos captured in extremely low illumination of fractions of a lux.
May 2, 2022, Atul Ingle
"Photon counting cameras for quantum imaging applications" Prof. Edoardo Charbon"Photon counting cameras for quantum imaging applications" Prof. Edoardo Charbon, Full Professor, Advanced Quantum Architecture LabAbstract:Photon counting has entered the realm of image sensing with the creation of deep-submicron CMOS SPAD technology.
April 28, 2022, Atul Ingle
Samsung making a new larger ISOCELL camera sensor?Samsung is the world’s second-biggest mobile camera sensor maker, and its sensors are used by almost every smartphone brand. Over the past couple of years, the South Korean firm has launched various big-sized camera sensors, including the ISOCELL GN1 and the ISOCELL GN2.
April 26, 2022, Atul Ingle
Embedded Vision Summit 2022The Edge AI and Vision Alliance, a 118-company worldwide industry partnership is organizing the 2022 Embedded Vision Summit, May 16-19 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, California.
April 22, 2022, Atul Ingle
Videos du jour - CICC, PhotonicsNXT and EPICIEEE CICC 2022 best paper candidates present their workSolid-State dToF LiDAR System Using an Eight-Channel Addressable, 20W/Ch Transmitter, and a 128x128 SPAD Receiver with SNR-Based Pixel Binning and Resolution UpscalingShenglong Zhuo, Lei Zhao,Tao Xia, Lei Wang, Shi Shi, Yifan Wu, Chang Liu, et a...
April 19, 2022, Atul Ingle
Google AI Blog article on Lidar-Camera FusionA team from Google Research has a new blog article on fusing Lidar and camera data for 3D object detection. The motivating problem here seems to be the issue of misalignment between 3D LiDAR data and 2D camera data.Full article: https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/04/lidar-camera-deep-fusion-for-multi.
April 15, 2022, Atul Ingle
PreAct Technologies and ESPROS Photonics Collaborate on Next-Generation Sensing SolutionsPreAct Technologies, an Oregon-based developer of near-field flash LiDAR technology and ESPROS Photonics, a Swiss company leader in the design and production of time-of flight chips and 3D cameras, recently announced a collaboration agreement to develop new flash LiDAR technologies for s...
April 12, 2022, Atul Ingle
Gigajot Announces the World's Highest Resolution Photon Counting SensorPASADENA, Calif., April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Gigajot Technology, inventors and developers of Quanta Image Sensors (QIS), today announced the expansion of its groundbreaking QIS product portfolio with the GJ04122 sensor and associated QIS41 camera.
April 8, 2022, Atul Ingle
Yole report on 3D imaging technologiesFull article here: https://www.i-micronews.com/will-3d-depth-cameras-return-to-android-phones/Some excerpts:Apple started using structured light for facial recognition technology in the iPhone X in 2017, ushering in an era of 3D depth imaging in the mobile field.
April 6, 2022, Thomas
Nikon Z 800mm f6.3 VR S reviewThe Z 800mm f6.3 VR S is Nikon's longest telephoto prime for Z-mount so far. It has a large f6.3 focal ratio and is aimed at pro sports and wildlife photographers. Here's my review.
April 3, 2022, Atul Ingle
Better Piezoelectric Light Modulators for AMCW Time-of-Flight CamerasA team from Stanford University's Laboratory for Integrated Nano-Quantum Systems (LINQS) and ArbabianLab present a new method that can potentially convert any conventional CMOS image sensor into an amplitude-modulated continuous-wave time-of-flight camera.
March 30, 2022, Atul Ingle
Black Phosphorus-based Intelligent Image SensorSeokhyeong Lee, Ruoming Peng, Changming Wu & Mo Li from U-Dub have published an article in Nature Communications titled "Programmable black phosphorus image sensor for broadband optoelectronic edge computing".
March 28, 2022, Atul Ingle
Lensless camera for in vivo microscopyA team comprised of researchers from Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX has published a Nature Biomedical Engineering article titled "In vivo lensless microscopy via a phase mask generating diffraction patterns with high-contrast contours.
March 26, 2022, Atul Ingle
[Updated] 2022 International SPAD Sensor Workshop Final Program AvailableAbout ISSW 2022Devices | Architectures | ApplicationsThe International SPAD Sensor Workshop focuses on the study, modeling, design, fabrication, and characterization of SPAD sensors.
May 13, 2022, Atul Ingle
Prof. Eric Fossum's interview at LDV vision summit 2018Eric Fossum & Evan Nisselson Discussing The Evolution, Present & Future of Image Sensors Eric Fossum is the inventor of the CMOS image sensor “camera-on-a-chip” used in billions of cameras, from smartphones to web cameras to pill cameras and many other applications.
May 10, 2022, Atul Ingle
Apple iPhone LiDAR applicationsPolycam makes apps that leverage the new lidar sensor on Apple's latest iPhone and iPad models.Their website presents a gallery of objects scanned with their app: https://poly.
May 6, 2022, Atul Ingle
Will event-cameras dominate computer vision?Dr. Ryad Benosman, a professor at University of Pittsburgh believes a huge shift is coming to how we capture and process images in computer vision applications. He predicts that event-based (or, more broadly, neuromorphic) vision sensors are going to dominate in the future.Dr.
May 4, 2022, Gordon Laing
Nintendo GameBoy Camera retro reviewThis retro review is dedicated to arguably the weirdest digital camera of the 90s, and certainly the most fun: it’s time to take a look at the Nintendo GameBoy Camera, 24 years later!…
April 29, 2022, Atul Ingle
Color sensing for nano-vision-sensorsNingxin Li et al. from Georgia State University have published a new article titled "Van der Waals Semiconductor Empowered Vertical Color Sensor" in ACS Nano.
April 27, 2022, Atul Ingle
90-min Tutorial on Single Photon DetectorsKrister Shalm of National Institute of Standards and Technologies presented a tutorial: Single-photon detectors at the 2013 QCrypt Conference in August. http://2013.qcrypt.
April 26, 2022, Gordon Laing
Sony VPL-XW5000ES 4k projector review so farThe Sony VPL-XW5000ES is a native 4k home theatre projector with a laser light source and 2000 lumen output. In my hands-on preview, I’ll give you my first impressions, what’s new and what’s changed.
April 21, 2022, Atul Ingle
Wide field-of-view imaging with a metalensA research group from Nanjing University has published a new paper titled "Planar wide-angle-imaging camera enabled by metalens array" in the recent issue of Optica.
April 18, 2022, Atul Ingle
Quantum Dot Photodiodes for SWIR CamerasA research team from Ghent University in Belgium has published an article titled "Colloidal III–V Quantum Dot Photodiodes for Short-Wave Infrared Photodetection".
April 14, 2022, Atul Ingle
New Videos from IEEE Sensors CouncilUltra-Thin Image Sensor Chip Embeded FoilAuthor: Shuo Wang{2}, Björn Albrecht{1}, Christine Harendt{1}, Jan Dirk Schulze Spüntrup{1}, Joachim Burghartz{1}Affiliation: {1}Institut für Mikroelektronik Stuttgart, Germany; {2}Institut für Nano- und Mikroelektronische Systeme, GermanyAbstract: Hybrid...
April 11, 2022, Atul Ingle
MojoVision Announces New Contact Lens PrototypeFrom TechCrunch News and MojoVision Blog:The Bay Area-based firm [MojoVision] announced a new prototype of its augmented reality contact lens technology. The system is based around what Mojo calls “Invisible Computing,” its heads up display technology that overlays information onto the lens.
April 7, 2022, Atul Ingle
Microsoft Surface Hub 2 Camera The Verge has a new article titled "How Microsoft built its smart Surface camera" about the new Surface Hub 2 camera. It required huge effort on the entire computational photography pipeline: the optics, the image sensor and on-board machine learning-based processing algorithms.
April 5, 2022, Gordon Laing
Accsoon M1 HDMI recorder reviewThe Accsoon M1 is an adapter that lets you use an Android phone as an HDMI monitor, recorder, or streamer.
April 1, 2022, Atul Ingle
Two new papers on 55 nm Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS SPADsThe AQUA research group at EPFL together with Global Foundries have published two new articles on 55 nm Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) SPAD technology in the upcoming issues of IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics.
March 30, 2022, Gordon Laing
Sony Cyber-shot P1 retro reviewIn the Year 2000, Sony launched the Cyber-shot P1, an impressively compact camera with 3.3 Megapixels and a 3x zoom that neatly folded into the candy-bar-styled body.
March 28, 2022, Gordon Laing
Nikon Z9 review so farThe Z9 is Nikon’s flagship camera, engineered to delight pro sports and wildlife photographers, high-end videographers and pretty much everyone inbetween.
