Behind every great image taken by a camera phone there's a huge amount of electronic / optical / mechanical magic taking place. Camera users are normally oblivious to this magic since it happens so ...

Developments in CMOS image-sensor technology bring new light to applications for cameras and machine vision. Because of integrated signal processing and active pixels, products such as low-power ...

Researchers in China have introduced an intelligent photonic sensing-computing chip capable of processing one hundred billion pixels in just 6 nanoseconds. This groundbreaking development promises to ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Humans effortlessly make sense of the visual world despite the fragmented mess of light that strikes the retina. Identifying objects, interpreting scenes, and recognizing faces ...

A nanowire diode with a built-in electron trap senses, denoises, and classifies images without separate processing hardware, mimicking the retina and opening a path to smarter edge computing.