All Photons Imaging shows new way to see through tissue and other obstructive materials

Camera Culture researchers are using ultrafast imaging to see through scattering materials. The method uses the entire optical signal leading to a new approach called 'All Photon Imaging.' This has implications in medical imaging, seeing through fog, and seeing through other obstructive materials.  The work by Guy Satat, Barmak Heshmat, Dan Raviv, and Ramesh Raskar was published in Nature Scientific Reports last month and highlighted in MIT News.


Augmented Reality's Long Lasting Impact Paper awarded to Ramesh Raskar 

Ramesh's PhD thesis and his UNC team's work from the late 1990's in Spatial Augmented Reality was recognized at IEEE ISMAR, a premier international conference in AR. His team's work in Augmented Reality later created the new fields of Projection Mapping and Shader Lamps.

Ramesh also co-wrote the first book on Augmented Reality which is now available for free online.  Please share the book PDF link with others.



Follow up on Lemelson MIT Prize

Post winning the prestigious Lemelson-MIT Prize, PI Ramesh Raskar shares his plans to invert the venture funding model and implement a new REDX platform for peer to peer invention for young innovators from around the world.

EmTech - Ramesh's keynote includes an overview of the research in the Camera Culture group and an intro on how to unmask talent for peer to peer invention.  

MIT Tech Review - 'The impossible photos of tomorrow won't be recorded; they'll be computed.'

Fast Company - Why the venture capital model needs to be inverted for true impact.




Using Kinect to 3D scan dinosaur skull

Researcher Anshuman Das is working with the  Field Museum to image the skull of famous dinosaur Sue.  The image hopes to recover information allowing paleontologists to see signs of disease or other indications of trauma.  


Emerging Worlds meeting recap 
We welcomed guests from all over the world to our bi-annual meeting at the Media Lab. Presenters included Emerging Worlds professors Ramesh Raskar, Sandy Pentland, Cesar Hidalgo, Iyad Rahwan and Kent Larson; Lita Nelsen on IP for open innovation; collaborators from Tata Consultancy Services, L V Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad, and MedHacker Brazil; and Bill Aulet of the Martin Trust Center of Entrepreneurship with a keynote on becoming an entrepreneur.  Event participants from more than 20 countries brainstormed ideas in four categories: Scaling - data for development; Wearables, cameras and sensors for social good; Empowering citizens for smart cities in emerging economies; and Data and privacy - machine learning for health.