Fly-inspired 360-degree camera sees in 3D
The compound eye of a fly has thousands of individual photoreceptors. Inspired by the annoying bug, scientists have made a camera with more than one hundred sensors on a hemisphere.
The sensors have an overlapping range of vision. Algorithms calculate the distance between the camera and objects in the scene. With the data and the multiple images, the system reconstructs the scene in 3D.
“The outcome of this work is likely to change the entire field of image acquisition,” one of the researchers claims, “with a huge range of potential applications.”
The technology is primarily developed at EPFL, Ecoles Polytechniques fédérales in Switzerland.
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