Nokia Lumia 1020 captures image of objects obstructed from view

Nokia Lumia 1020

The world of photography is incredible. It'southward a feat to capture the world and view whatever scene at a later engagement in glorious high definition, but it's another to further develop the engineering to produce some extraordinary results.

We are now learning that physicists have managed to use the Nokia Lumia 1020 to capture a photo and reveal objects hidden behind a slice of frosted drinking glass.

Using single-pixel imaging, an prototype taken from backside frosted glass captures an entirely random pattern of lite, but should a sequence of images taken this mode be reconstructed, information technology is possible to crisis the data from numerous images and produce an prototype of the concealed object. Commonly this would include a rather powerful computer to handle the image processing.

Ori Katz and a handful of colleagues at the Institut Langevin in Paris have managed to achieve similar results using cypher more than than a smartphone – the Lumia 1020. The team treats data from each pixel as an individual image and look for the correlation between all the images. There's no need for a lens as the calorie-free doesn't require to be refocused.

The Lumia 1020 camera sensor

Smartphones in general crusade issues for this type of image processing every bit lenses are unnecessary (requiring a pinhole aperture) and each device produces compressed jpeg images, just luckily these files tin can still be used. The end results are reportedly impressive, with images reconstructed to reveal objects behind onion skin and even chicken breast tissue.

"And they even produce images using reflected low-cal (as opposed to transmitting calorie-free). To evidence this, these guys recorded the light from an object that was scattered off a wall covered in white pigment. Sure enough, the resulting image revealed the object, even though it was essentially around a corner from the photographic camera."

Lumia 1020

Information technology'due south fairly revolutionary technology with many possible applications that include space exploration with orbiting observatories and medical imaging. Imagine the frosted glass being soft tissue and having the ability to photo an object just beneath the tissue without the demand for x-rays or exploratory surgery.

The added bonus is that a Windows Phone was utilized in the evolution, which will allow scientists to scale down imaging equipment and be more than cost efficient.

Source: Medium; Thanks, Guy, for the tip!

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