{"id":71440,"date":"2017-07-31T15:02:33","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T22:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/4d-camera-to-improve-machine-vision-for-robots-and-virtual-reality"},"modified":"2017-08-02T21:01:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T04:01:02","slug":"4d-camera-to-improve-machine-vision-for-robots-and-virtual-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/4d-camera-to-improve-machine-vision-for-robots-and-virtual-reality","title":{"rendered":"4D Camera to Improve Machine Vision for Robots and Virtual Reality"},"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\/nmePnE6dTfk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A new type of camera built by Stanford engineers and funded by the NSF and Intel generates a four dimensional image that is capable of capturing nearly 140 degrees of information.<\/p>\n<p>The 4D camera, built by Donald Dansereau, a postdoctoral fellow in electrical engineering and Gordon Wetzstein, assistant professor of electrical engineering at Stanford, along with colleagues from the University of California, San Diego is the first single-lens, wide field of view, light field camera ever made.<\/p>\n<p>With current cameras robots have to change position to get multiple perspectives of their surroundings in order to maneuver in complex environments and understand the objects within those environments.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.singularityarchive.com\/darpa-funded-4d-camera-improve-machine-vision-robots-virtual-reality\/\">https:\/\/www.singularityarchive.com\/darpa-funded-4d-camera-im...l-reality\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new type of camera built by Stanford engineers and funded by the NSF and Intel generates a four dimensional image that is capable of capturing nearly 140 degrees of information. The 4D camera, built by Donald Dansereau, a postdoctoral fellow in electrical engineering and Gordon Wetzstein, assistant professor of electrical engineering at Stanford, along [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,6,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-robotics-ai","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71440","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71552,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71440\/revisions\/71552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}