At the 6Sight Future of Imaging conference last year, MIT Professor Ramesh Raskar discussed a camera design that could takes photograph scenes out of its line of sight — and this month he and his team of researchers are providing further details on their invention.
The camera uses ultra-fast imaging to capture the reflections of short bursts of light in a process named “Femto-Photography,” in which algorithms measure the time elapsed for the bounced light bursts and construct a 3D image.
“It’s like having x-ray vision without the x-rays,” Raskar says in an MIT news story. “We’re going around the problem rather than going through it.”
The researchers foresee a portable imaging system available within the next two years.
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