{"id":537,"date":"2018-05-11T12:04:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T17:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/?p=537"},"modified":"2018-05-11T12:04:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T17:04:59","slug":"breaking-the-final-photography-frontier-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/2018\/05\/11\/breaking-the-final-photography-frontier-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking the Final Photography Frontier:  Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Basic physics limits the quality of low-light photography.  The low photon count and high signal-to-noise ratio of dim lighting deteriorate an image, and no amount of sensor technology can overcome physics.  But perhaps signal processing can.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve already seen how <a href=\"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/2018\/04\/30\/phone-cameras-bypassing-laws-physics\/\">phone cameras are bypassing the laws of physics<\/a> by combining multiple shots into a single image.  Now four computer scientists have <a href=\"http:\/\/web.engr.illinois.edu\/~cchen156\/SID.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"nr\">presented<\/a> a technique for enhancing low-light images.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example the researchers give, comparing (on the left) traditional processing of a dark image with their enhanced version (on the right):<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_543\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-543\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/SID-Demo29-Screenshot.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/SID-Demo29-Screenshot-1024x630.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"630\" class=\"size-large wp-image-543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/SID-Demo29-Screenshot-1024x630.png 1024w, https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/SID-Demo29-Screenshot-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/SID-Demo29-Screenshot-768x473.png 768w, https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/SID-Demo29-Screenshot-50x31.png 50w, https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/SID-Demo29-Screenshot-150x92.png 150w, https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/SID-Demo29-Screenshot.png 1184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot of Example 29 from SID<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n(The image was shot with a <a target=\"_blank\" data-r=\"amzn-shortcode\" class=\"r AMZN-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B01I3LNMAM\/?tag=luq-20\">Fuji X-T2<\/a> set to ISO 640, f\/10, and 1\/30sec.)<\/p>\n<div><div class=\"ad inline-ad\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><div class=\"r fade-on-load unfade-on-hover\" data-r=\"gogl-in-article\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0646949331190830\" data-ad-slot=\"3093211289\"><\/ins><\/div> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); <\/script><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Read the whole article here:  <a href=\"http:\/\/web.engr.illinois.edu\/~cchen156\/SID.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"nr\">Learning to See in the Dark<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The low photon count and high signal-to-noise ratio of dim lighting deteriorate an image, and no amount of sensor technology can overcome physics.  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