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Phys.org and other sites report on a new type of camera that is extremely fast, it looks for the slope of intensity at individual pixels and at the same time requires much less bandwidth than a conventional video camera,
https://phys.org/news/2017-02-ultrafast-camera-self-driving-vehicles-drones.html
Said to be useful for any type of real time use, in particular self-driving cars.
From the company site, http://www.hillhouse-tech.com/
Each pixel in our sensor can individually monitor the slope of change in light intensity and report an event if a threshold is reached. Row and column arbitration circuits process the pixel events and make sure only one is granted to access the output port at a time in a fairly ordered manner when they receive multiple requests simultaneously. The response time to the pixel event is at nanosecond scale. As such, the sensor can be tuned to capture motion objects with speed faster than a certain threshold. The speed of the sensor is not limited by any traditional concept such as exposure time, frame rate, etc. It can detect fast motion which is traditionally captured by expensive, high speed cameras running at tens of thousands frames per second and at the same time produces 1000x less of data.
Sounds sort of like an eye (human or animal), which has a lot of hardware (wetware?) processing directly behind the retina and only sends a relatively slow data rate to the brain.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by c0lo on Wednesday September 20 2017, @12:12PM (4 children)
No, seriously guys.
What are you thinking when you post stories so "interesting" that, 2 hours after publishing it, there's no comment?
How long do you think S/N can survive if the level of the stories are "Yeah, immm, nteresting. Sorta. Maybe. Meh... can't be bothered to think of it enough to post a comment"?
I mean, come on! Not even the submitter can find 3 minutes to explain why did s/he find it worthy for submission? What is S/N, a place where stories are aborted after 6 months of gestation in the queue? Doesn't the "parent" feel any responsibility for the "child" abandoned on the steps of S/N "cathedral"?
Look, take IBM Simulates Beryllium Hydride Molecule Using a Quantum Computer [soylentnews.org] - after 3 hours since publishing, the only comment there is a "Dick niɡցers" one.
The one after it - Science Magazine Interview With European Southern Observatory Chief [soylentnews.org] - one hour plus and no comment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 20 2017, @12:29PM (3 children)
Do you have a crystal ball that can predict the interest in a particular story?
I submit 3-5 articles/week (very rough long term average), and most are not political. Most of them are published. Perhaps 3 in 10 generate 40+ comments(?), and sometimes the comments head off on a tangent unrelated to the submission. How do you decide what will generate discussion?
I submitted this one because the idea of fast processing directly coupled to the image sensor was new to me (except from reading about biological systems). While there are only a couple of comments below, they are interesting. Maybe when the USA West Coast wakes up there will be some more interest?
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by c0lo on Wednesday September 20 2017, @01:01PM (2 children)
No, I don't.
But (and please take it as constructive criticism) the summary is non-inviting - at least for me. I don't know a lot of things for the summary to ring any bells and I'm seeing very little support for "trust me, there is something about it. Here, have some threads you may want to follow"
Examples of places where such insertions may make TFS more attractive/inviting:
Sound like "Yeah, there are some rumours it may have practical application in self-serving cars, the technology du jour where money are typically spend".
When in fact, the phys.org article goes quite a bit in explaining why this use of the technology is attractive (one of these reasons: "Unlike typical optical cameras, which can be blinded by bright light and unable to make out details in the dark, NTU's new smart camera can record the slightest movements and objects in real time.")
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Ah, so this is useful to take photoshots of bullets? Or what?
Is it something really cool or, given that is on "the company site", just vapourware? (the latter is most common these days)
(when, in fact, the phys.org attributes the invention to Nanyang Technological University, Singapore - thus it's credible)
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Is this a hypothesis of yours or can you back it with some citations?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 20 2017, @01:35PM
> ...please take it as constructive criticism
Did you wake up on the wrong side of bed today?
In your post you present significant information that could contribute to and improve the discussion, beyond what the original submitter/editors put in tfs. But instead of a normal reply you chose to go "meta" and turn your links and comments into a whine... Actually, it's worse than a whine, since you are complaining about volunteers.
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 20 2017, @02:21PM
The story is somewhat interesting but seems most soylentils had nothing interesting to add to it and fortunately most didn't decide to post off-topic crap.
If you want troll fests and zillions of crap comments by people who don't know shit please go to Slashdot.