TG-1 * Transgallaxys Forum 1

Camera 2.0: New computing platforms for computational photography

The Stanford Frankencamera. Despite these encouraging trends, there are computational photography experiments that cannot be implemented on today's cell phones. either because the cameras' sensor or optics aren't good enough, the computing resources aren't powerful enough, or the APIs connecting the camera to the computing are too restrictive. We have therefore built a custom camera that runs Linux, is fully programmable (including its digital signal processor) and connected to the Internet, and accommodates SLR lenses and (soon) SLR-quality sensors. Our current prototype (3rd and 4th images above) is constructed from off-the-shelf parts, in some cases borrowed from dead cameras. It's also ugly - hence the name.