— Bryn Nelson"; Tech_Frontiers_Photography081110[i++] = new Array("","Interactive digital photomontage","","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/081110-CompPhoto-1-hmed.standard.jpg","","Image: ant", "", "", "", "", "left", "", "Courtesy of John Longino/Evergreen College and Aseem Agarwala/University of Washington", "298", "223", "#000000", "", "", "", ""); Tech_Frontiers_Photography081110[i-1].body = "
An example of the interactive digital photomontage technique, showing how portions of 11 different ant images were merged together to create a single view that boasts a far greater depth of field than any one image alone."; Tech_Frontiers_Photography081110[i++] = new Array("","A near-perfect group photo","","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/081110-CompPhoto-2-hmed.hmedium.jpg","","Image: group photo", "", "", "", "", "", "", "Aseem Agarwala/University of Washington", "273", "363", "#000000", "", "", "", ""); Tech_Frontiers_Photography081110[i-1].body = "
Ah, the rarely seen, near-perfect group photo. Actually, this room full of attentive and mostly smiling relatives has been stitched together from five separate photos with a recently developed interactive digital photomontage technique."; Tech_Frontiers_Photography081110[i++] = new Array("","A composite image","","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/081110-CompPhoto-3-hmed.hmedium.jpg","","Image: group photo", "", "", "", "", "", "", "Aseem Agarwala/University of Washington", "273", "370", "#000000", "", "", "", ""); Tech_Frontiers_Photography081110[i-1].body = "
From a set of five source images, Aseem Agarwala and colleagues created a composite family portrait in which everyone was looking at the camera. Essentially, they flipped through the stack of photos and drew strokes over the people they wanted to add to the composite using an interactive \"designated source\" function."; Tech_Frontiers_Photography081110[i++] = new Array("","Digital refocusing ","","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/081110-CompPhoto-4-hmed.standard.jpg","","Image: Group shot", "", "", "", "", "left", "", "Courtesy of Ren Ng, Pat Hanrahan and Marc Levoy/Stanford University", "292", "292", "#000000", "", "", "", ""); Tech_Frontiers_Photography081110[i-1].body = "
An example of digital refocusing on another group shot. Note how only the first person in line is in clear focus. But by capturing abundant light information, the photographer can shift the focus — well after the fact."; Tech_Frontiers_Photography081110[i++] = new Array("","Shifting focus","","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/081110-CompPhoto-5-hmed.standard.jpg","","Image: Group shot", "", "", "", "", "left", "", "Courtesy of Ren Ng, Pat Hanrahan and Marc Levoy/Stanford University", "292", "292", "#000000", "", "", "", ""); Tech_Frontiers_Photography081110[i-1].body = "
This shot later in the sequence demonstrates how digital refocusing allows the focus to be easily shifted from the foreground to the background. With certain algorithms, another potential image of this same group of people could include in-focus views of everyone."; Tech_Frontiers_Photography081110[i++] = new Array("","Another blurry photo","","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/081110-CompPhoto-6-hmed.hmedium.jpg","","Image: Blurry photo", "", "", "", "", "", "", "Courtesy of Anat Levin, Fredo Durand and William Freeman/MIT", "273", "342", "#000000", "", "", "", ""); Tech_Frontiers_Photography081110[i-1].body = "
Darn it! Another blurry photo taken with a traditional camera. If only there was a better way to clearly capture movement …"; Tech_Frontiers_Photography081110[i++] = new Array("","Motion-invariant photography","","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/081110-CompPhoto-7-hmed.hmedium.jpg","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "Courtesy of Anat Levin, Fredo Durand and William Freeman/MIT", "273", "342", "#000000", "", "", "", ""); Tech_Frontiers_Photography081110[i-1].body = "
Bill Freeman and colleagues at MIT have developed a new technique called motion-invariant photography that promises to cut down on those irritating blurs. \"Counterintuitively but elegantly, if you move the camera during the exposure in a particular way, you can make an image that is all blurred, but in a way that’s easy to de-blur,\" Freeman says."; Tech_Frontiers_Photography081110[i++] = new Array("","Clearer image","","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/081110-CompPhoto-8-hmed.hmedium.jpg","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "Courtesy of Anat Levin, Fredo Durand and William Freeman/MIT", "273", "342", "#000000", "", "", "", ""); Tech_Frontiers_Photography081110[i-1].body = "
With motion-invariant photography, a camera uses a specially designed motion
that causes both the static and dynamic regions to blur identically. The blurs can then be removed independent of motion, resulting in a much clearer image.
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