Ramesh Raskar: Imaging at a trillion frames per second

http://www.ted.com Ramesh Raskar presents femto-photography, a new type of imaging so fast it visualizes the world one trillion frames per second, so detailed it shows light itself in motion. This technology may someday be used to build cameras that can look "around" corners or see inside the body without X-rays.

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[Joe Shlanta]

WATCH IT WITH CC ON, ITS HILLARIUS

[Bo Söderlund]

Quickly switching one lamp on and off in the middle of a really large room with lots of stuff happening in it at once would make a great one-take music video!

[DewDragon]

This could be used to actually show the nature of the particle/wave duality of light and solve that mystery.

[wtfd00d08]

pretty sure they're implementing a similar technology in the new Kinect on XboxOne

[Alex Larter]

When you read about how it actually works, it becomes less impressive. It can't capture normal events in everyday life. Still really cool technology though!

[Littlewood0923]

A TRILLION FRIENDS PER SECOND?! OMG

[Electricbrain23]

Well it ain't that much really if you think about it, I've seen better

[GDZjeenik]

Quantum computer will help a lot on that ^^

[Luke Gibson]

Google collected no response for this research!

[ErgoCogita]

Indeed, people seem generally unaware of the astronomical amounts of data processing needed to have live interactive surveillance on the scales needed to even begin to approach what they imagine.

[ErgoCogita]

absolutely jawdropping photography!

As for solving the returning packets of photons goes. I'm willing to bet that includes the equivalent to object tracking in 3D compositing software. It would seem to me that there would be specific parameters to take into consideration such as sensor dimensions, focal length (if any) and diffraction properties of the reflecting wall.