Stanford researchers devise way to see through clouds and fog

he laser scanning process in action. Single photons that travel through the foam, bounce off the “S,” and back through the foam to the detector provide information for the algorithm’s reconstruction of the hidden object. (Image credit: Stanford Computational Imaging Lab)
Sep 9 2020
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Researchers have co-designed hardware and software, with hardware just slightly more advanced than what is currently found in autonomous cars, to reconstruct 3D hidden scenes based on the movement of individual particles of light. This technique complements other vision systems used for medical applications and is focused on large scale situations such as self driving cars navigating in fog or heavy rain and satellite imaging of Earth through hazy atmosphere.