Single-pixel camera - Kelly and Baraniuk

Blurb:
Using some new mathematics and a silicon chip covered with hundreds of thousands of mirrors the size of a single bacterium, Kevin Kelly, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and Richard Baraniuk, the Victor E. Cameron Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering have come up with a more efficient design for digital cameras. Unlike a one-megapixel camera that captures one million points of light for every frame, this camera creates an image by capturing just one point of light, or pixel, several thousands of times in rapid succession. The new mathematics comes into play in assembling the high-resolution image – equal in quality to the one-megapixel image – from the thousands of single-pixel snapshots.

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