CVPR Daily - 2018 - Thursday

Lin Gu is a project researcher at the National Institute of Informatics Japan. Antony Lam is an assistant professor at Saitama University. They spoke to us before their poster yesterday, about a totally new camera design with many applications, including robotic surgery and autonomous cars. Lin explains that normal cameras simulate the human eye. They want to see red, green and blue to make an image more vivid and realistic, but that’s often unnecessary. During surgery, for example, you might make an incision and find there is a lot of blood. From our human eye it is totally red, but with hyperspectral imaging , it is actually different. Antony says they are proposing to create optimised colour bands for the purposes of hyperspectral estimation . The different colour bands of our eyes can sense a kind of convolution over the wavelength domain. Due to evolution, our human eyes cannot differentiate certain types of colours. Our eyes and RGB cameras may have a certain spectral response function over wavelengths for red, green and blue. Their camera sees the wavelengths in a way that is different from our eyes and can learn more about the material 20 Lin Gu Antony Lam Thursday From left: Shijie Nie, Lin Gu and Antony Lam