{"id":179892,"date":"2024-01-05T13:22:25","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T19:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/nanostructured-flat-lens-uses-machine-learning-to-see-more-clearly-while-using-less-power"},"modified":"2024-01-05T13:22:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T19:22:25","slug":"nanostructured-flat-lens-uses-machine-learning-to-see-more-clearly-while-using-less-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/nanostructured-flat-lens-uses-machine-learning-to-see-more-clearly-while-using-less-power","title":{"rendered":"Nanostructured flat lens uses machine learning to \u2018see\u2019 more clearly, while using less power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanostructured-flat-lens-uses-machine-learning-to-see-more-clearly-while-using-less-power2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From surveillance to defense to AI\/ML virtualization, and it\u2019s more compact and energy efficient. Oh and let\u2019s not forget the medical imaging applications. I just wonder how long until it\u2019s put into effect.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A front-end lens, or meta-imager, created at Vanderbilt University can potentially replace traditional imaging optics in machine-vision applications, producing images at higher speed and using less power.<\/p>\n<p>The nanostructuring of lens material into a meta-imager filter reduces the typically thick optical lens and enables front-end processing that encodes information more efficiently. The imagers are designed to work in concert with a digital backend to offload computationally expensive operations into high-speed and low-power optics. The images that are produced have potentially wide applications in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/security+systems\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">security systems<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/medical+applications\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">medical applications<\/a>, and government and defense industries.<\/p>\n<p>Mechanical engineering professor Jason Valentine, deputy director of the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, and colleagues\u2019 proof-of-concept meta-imager is described in a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41565-023-01557-2\">published<\/a> in Nature Nanotechnology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From surveillance to defense to AI\/ML virtualization, and it\u2019s more compact and energy efficient. Oh and let\u2019s not forget the medical imaging applications. I just wonder how long until it\u2019s put into effect. A front-end lens, or meta-imager, created at Vanderbilt University can potentially replace traditional imaging optics in machine-vision applications, producing images at higher [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":528,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1490,4,6,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-government","category-nanotechnology","category-robotics-ai","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179892","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\/528"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}