Algorithm could help cameras auto-focus like eyes
Posted by staff / October 3, 2011
A new algorithm suggests there is information lurking in images that cameras have yet to tap.
Like a camera, the human eye has an auto-focusing system, but human auto-focusing rarely makes mistakes. And unlike a camera, humans do not require trial and error to focus an object.
Researchers at the University of Austin at Texas have figured out how to extract information from an individual image to determine how far objects are from the focus distance, a feat only accomplished by human and animal visual systems until now.
Full story at Futurity.
Photo credit: Johannes Burge
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