eorge Eastman sold the first KODAK camera in 1888 with the ingenious marketing slogan, “You press the button–we do the rest.” This was the birth of snapshot photography. Since then, cameras have gotten...
Researchers from MIT, Stanford University, and Adobe Systems presented a new image processing system at the Siggraph Asia conference last week that reduces the bandwidth consumed by server-based image processing by as...
Taking photos through windows almost always yields reflections of the photographer and of persons and objects in front of the glass. Now, MIT researchers have created an algorithm that will remove reflections from most...
If you think that people are hacking your cellphone and listening to your conversations, this news should freak you out even more. Researchers at MIT, Microsoft, and Adobe have developed an algorithm that can...
If you work as a photographer’s assistant setting up lighting for the photographer, be advised that your job may soon be fulfilled by “squadrons of small, light-equipped autonomous robots that automatically...
We’ve all seen examples of a picture of a scene superimposed on a historic scene or vice versa: an actual photo of a historic scene is held up to superimpose an actual scene and photographed. Rephotographers aim...