Enhance! Photo analysis finds faces reflected in eyeballs

Devin Coldewey. NBC News Dec 27th, 2013 (http://www.nbcnews.com)

It’s the stuff of sci-fi, or at least of “CSI”: British researchers have demonstrated a technique whereby faces reflected in a person’s eye can be extracted from a picture. Zoom in far enough, it turns out, and that twinkle in your eye turns into a full-blown portrait.

Movie buffs may remember something like this appearing in the 1982 sci-fi classic “Blade Runner,” in which a photo is “enhanced” to an unreasonable degree — and of course many a cop drama or mystery has relied on such photographic tricks as well to produce evidence. But this time it’s for real.

Psychologists Rob Jenkins, of the University of York, and Christie Kerr, of the University of Glasgow, show that in the proper conditions, reflections off the pupil of the eye can contain enough details to identify faces. Potential applications aren’t far off from the fictional representations: A picture of a victim might hide details of the attacker or surroundings.

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Dynamic target tracking camera system keeps its eye on the ball #DigInfo

Published on Jun 17, 2013

High speed dynamic target tracking camera system keeps its eye on the ball
(http://www.diginfo.tv/v/13-0049-r-en.php)

13/6/2013 SSII2013

The University of Tokyo
Stationary Observation System for High-speed Flying Objects

Lumipen: Projection Mapping on a Moving Object –http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuSUHu…
1ms Auto Pan-Tilt for perfect recentering –http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q_lcF…

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Researchers unveil ‘bug-eye’ digital camera

May 2, 2013. By: Laura Hopperton (http://www.newelectronics.co.uk)

A digital camera that functions like an insect’s eye has been unveiled by an interdisciplinary team of researchers.

The device exploits large arrays of tiny focusing lenses and miniaturised detectors in hemispherical layouts, just like the eyes of arthropods.

Its creators say it offers a nearly infinite depth of field, and believe it could be used in surveillance devices and tools for endoscopy.

“A critical feature of our fly’s eye cameras is that they incorporate integrated microlenses, photodetectors and electronics on hemispherically curved surfaces,” explained Jianliang Xiao, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at University of Colorado Boulder.

“To realise this, we used soft, rubbery optics bonded to detectors/electronics in mesh layouts that can be stretched and deformed, reversibly and without damage.”

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