Abstract: This highly interdisciplinary research addresses two fundamental challenges in image sensing and image understanding: 1) versatile camera systems in a small form factor, and 2) 3-dimensional scene and object recognition from 2-dimensional photos. These fundamental challenges are tackled together by developing a cyber-physical imaging system, called a smart flexible camera sheet, which integrates an array of many micro-cameras (each millimeters in size) onto a thin substrate.

Abstract: Our proposed research is motivated by two fundamental challenges that are traditionally studied in separate disciplines. The first key challenge is that in existing digital cameras, the functionalities of a camera are constrained by its size due to the optics and quantum nature of light. It remains a challenge to design a camera architecture that has both - a small form factor and has versatile functionalities, e.g.