{"id":11864,"date":"2013-12-02T19:22:14","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T01:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11864"},"modified":"2018-02-02T15:29:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T21:29:48","slug":"stealth-camera-takes-pictures-virtually-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11864","title":{"rendered":"Stealth camera takes pictures virtually in the dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In the team\u2019s setup, low-intensity pulses of visible laser light scan an object of interest. The laser fires a pulse at a given location until a single reflected photon is recorded by a detector; each illuminated location corresponds to a pixel in the final image.<\/p>\n<p>Variations in the time it takes for photons from the laser pulses to be reflected back from the object provides depth information about the body \u2014 a standard way of revealing three-dimensional structure. However, the algorithm developed by Kirmani and his colleagues provides that information using one-hundredth the number of photons required by existing light detection and ranging (LIDAR) techniques, which are commonly used in remote mapping or measuring forest biomass, for instance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/stealth-camera-takes-pictures-virtually-in-the-dark-1.14260\">Stealth camera takes pictures virtually in the dark : Nature News &amp; Comment<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the team\u2019s setup, low-intensity pulses of visible laser light scan an object of interest. The laser fires a pulse at a given location until a single reflected photon is recorded by a detector; each illuminated location corresponds to a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11864\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[1026,1238,387,627],"class_list":["post-11864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-lasers","tag-lidar","tag-mit","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11865,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11864\/revisions\/11865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}