Intelligent cameras complement human perception
FAU team develops cost-efficient and high-resolution multispectral camera
Intelligent cameras are considered the next milestone in image and video signal processing. A research team at the Chair of Multimedia Communication and Signal Processing at FAU has developed an intelligent camera that achieves high spatial, temporal and spectral resolution. The fields of application are manifold and can improve environmental and resource protection as well as autonomous driving or modern agriculture. The research results are published as an open access publication.
“Up to now, research has mainly focused on increasing spatial and temporal resolution – i.e. megapixels and images per second”, explains private lecturer Dr. Jürgen Seiler. “The spectral resolution – i.e. the wavelength and thus the perception of colors – was largely adapted to the human senses during the development of cameras, which only corresponds to a measurement of the colors red, green and blue. However, the spectrum of light contains much more information that can be used for a wide variety of tasks. From the animal kingdom, for example, we know that some animals use additional light spectra for hunting and foraging”. Read more…