{"id":140935,"date":"2022-06-22T06:03:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T11:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/newly-developed-optical-microphone-sees-sound-like-never-before"},"modified":"2022-06-22T06:03:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T11:03:02","slug":"newly-developed-optical-microphone-sees-sound-like-never-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/newly-developed-optical-microphone-sees-sound-like-never-before","title":{"rendered":"Newly developed optical microphone sees sound like never before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_pq0d1oxtA0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A camera system developed by Carnegie Mellon University researchers can see sound vibrations with such precision and detail that it can reconstruct the music of a single instrument in a band or orchestra.<\/p>\n<p>Even the most high-powered and directed microphones can\u2019t eliminate nearby sounds, ambient noise and the effect of acoustics when they capture audio. The novel system developed in the School of Computer Science\u2019s Robotics Institute (RI) uses two cameras and a laser to sense high-speed, low-amplitude surface vibrations. These vibrations can be used to reconstruct <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/sound\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">sound<\/a>, capturing isolated audio without inference or a microphone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve invented a new way to see sound,\u201d said Mark Sheinin, a post-doctoral research associate at the Illumination and Imaging Laboratory (ILIM) in the RI. \u201cIt\u2019s a new type of <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/camera+system\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">camera system<\/a>, a new imaging device, that is able to see something invisible to the naked eye.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A camera system developed by Carnegie Mellon University researchers can see sound vibrations with such precision and detail that it can reconstruct the music of a single instrument in a band or orchestra. Even the most high-powered and directed microphones can\u2019t eliminate nearby sounds, ambient noise and the effect of acoustics when they capture audio. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-arts","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}