David Brady and a team of researchers at Duke University have developed a gigapixel camera that records more than 30 times the data captured by conventional cameras. The AWARE2 camera project is funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
“The new camera is not the first to generate images with more than a billion pixels (or gigapixel resolution),” notes MIT’s Technology Review. “But it is the first with the potential to be scaled down to portable dimensions.”
The AWARE2 prototype has 98 micro-cameras, each with 10-megapixel resolution, all positioned behind a shared lens. Eight graphical processing units work in tandem to correct distortions, while multiple cameras behind a shared lens make it possible to process different portions of the image separately.
Hardware required for the AWARE2 is expected to shrink as computer processing power improves.
“Imagine trying to spot an individual pixel in an image displayed across 1,000 high-definition TV screens. That’s the kind of resolution a new kind of ‘compact’ gigapixel camera is capable of producing,” notes the article.
Brady says gigapixel cameras could revolutionize digital photography, image surveillance and video broadcasting. His team hopes to offer a version of the camera by the end of next year for $100,000.
David Brady and a team of researchers at Duke University have developed a gigapixel camera that records more than 30 times the data captured by conventional cameras. The AWARE2 camera project is funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
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