Experts from MIT and Rice University have developed a computer vision system for imaging the sides by reflecting off different objects. Photo: File
Boston: Experts have developed a new computer vision system that captures images from the reflections of bright and shiny objects placed in a room. In this way, anything that has a bit of shine can be made into a camera, from metal to plastic.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Rice University have jointly created a computer vision system. This system can turn even modestly reflective objects into digital sensors. In this way, imaging is also possible with side-absorbed and reflected light.
In addition, computer vision can see every angle and geometry and thus combine them all to form an image. Scientists create a three-dimensional image of an object by placing a two-dimensional (3D) image in a multi-dimensional environment, and thus a photo can be taken only from the image.
This work is done in three stages called (Objects True Irradiance Field Cameras) or ORCA. First of all, the glowing object is photographed from several angles. The depth in the image is then measured. A computer algorithm then creates that image.
Thus reflective surfaces can be turned into virtual camera sensors and computer vision systems can see sides, corners and hidden corners.
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