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Association for Computing Machinery

Magazine: Winter 2024 | Volume 31, No. 2

SECTION: Features

Looking at Data: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries in Image Research

Black hole images provide new opportunities for interdisciplinary inquiry into the relationship between pictures and knowledge.

By Colleen O'Reilly

HTML | In the Digital Library
Tags: Astronomy, Computational photography

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Learning from Nature's Cameras: Bio-Inspired Computational Imaging

For the past half-billion years, evolution has produced a diversity of eyes and brains that work together to solve visual problems with remarkable efficiency and robustness. By reverse-engineering these systems, we can uncover powerful principles to build the next generation of computational cameras.

By Emma Alexander

HTML | In the Digital Library
Tags: Computer vision, Imaging

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Seeing Beyond the Blur with Generative AI

Can AI hallucinations be responsibly harnessed for scientific imaging?

By Berthy Feng, Katherine L. Bouman

HTML | In the Digital Library
Tags: Astronomy, Computer vision

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Generative AI for Solving Inverse Problems in Computational Imaging

Generative AI offers great promise for effectively solving challenging ill-posed inverse problems, transforming the way we measure and infer the physical world around us, and enabling exciting new user-centric capabilities.

By Elias Nehme, Tomer Michaeli

HTML | In the Digital Library
Tags: Computer vision problems, Image processing, Image representations

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Quanta Computer Vision

Light impinges on a camera's sensor as a collection of discrete quantized elements, or photons. An emerging class of devices, called single-photon sensors, offers the unique capability of detecting individual photons with high-timing precision. With the increasing accessibility of high-resolution single-photon sensors, we can now explore what computer vision would look like if we could operate on light, one photon at a time.

By Varun Sundar, Mohit Gupta

HTML | In the Digital Library
Tags: Computational photography, Emerging optical and photonic technologies, Quantum technologies

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The Inverse Problems You Carry in Your Pocket

In the spaces between data-hungry generative models and measurement-rich computational imaging, we can find the field of computational photography. Can cell phone cameras be an accessible and affordable bridge between modern computer vision and traditional inverse imaging problems?

By Ilya Chugunov

HTML | In the Digital Library
Tags: Computational photography, Mobile devices

Shady Science: The Role of Shadows in Non-Line-of-Sight Imaging

What secrets do shadows hold? Perhaps more than you might expect. They can help us see around obstacles, brightening the future of autonomous driving safety and other technologies.

By Charles Saunders

HTML | In the Digital Library
Tags: Computational photography, Computer vision problems, Image and video acquisition