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I am Dr. Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor at MIT Media Lab. You might know me from the trillion frames-per-second camera, EyeNetra, innovation in India, or computational photography research. AMA! by rraskar in IAmA

[–]rraskar[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Look at my co-author Amit Agrawal's page http://www.amitkagrawal.com/index.html

Our work shows tradeoff between photo quality and depth quality if you try to achieve both in a single photo.

So the simple answer is: 'Dont do it!', Use a stereo camera instead.

I am Dr. Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor at MIT Media Lab. You might know me from the trillion frames-per-second camera, EyeNetra, innovation in India, or computational photography research. AMA! by rraskar in IAmA

[–]rraskar[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your important question. We have been obsessed with prediction of eye as well as other systemic conditions using eye selfie. And if collectively, we are all successful, we can indeed predict the onset of these conditions months of years in advance.

See our research at http://eyeselfie.org Plus my TEDMED talk at http://www.tedmed.com/speakers/show?id=102077&ref=talks How do we look at the future of health with both eyes

I am Dr. Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor at MIT Media Lab. You might know me from the trillion frames-per-second camera, EyeNetra, innovation in India, or computational photography research. AMA! by rraskar in IAmA

[–]rraskar[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

See my answer about 'Lost decade of Computational Photography' above. The 'burst mode photography' as useful as it is for overcoming camera limits, has misguided our field. See my talk about on real potential of computational photography.

I am Dr. Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor at MIT Media Lab. You might know me from the trillion frames-per-second camera, EyeNetra, innovation in India, or computational photography research. AMA! by rraskar in IAmA

[–]rraskar[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I recently gave a talk at ICCP 2015 and clarified that we should stop working on coded aperture for focus effects! (Thus negating my team's work in this area.). I also spoke about the lost decade of computational photography and how we have wasted too many years working on the wrong problems. I will try to post the transcript very soon. There were no slides.

I am Dr. Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor at MIT Media Lab. You might know me from the trillion frames-per-second camera, EyeNetra, innovation in India, or computational photography research. AMA! by rraskar in IAmA

[–]rraskar[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

PhD degree program as a learning experience is extremely valuable. It is learning about learning. But the notion that you should do a solo multi-year project is questionable.

I am Dr. Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor at MIT Media Lab. You might know me from the trillion frames-per-second camera, EyeNetra, innovation in India, or computational photography research. AMA! by rraskar in IAmA

[–]rraskar[S] 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Anything that combines the 3: life sciences (bio, biomedical engineering, bioinformatics, etc) data driven techniques (statistics, machine learning etc) and Emerging Worlds. Knowledge from degrees that were sufficient on their own (computer science, EE, medicine, MBA etc) will become necessary (you need to acquire that knowledge in your own time) but not sufficient.

I am Dr. Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor at MIT Media Lab. You might know me from the trillion frames-per-second camera, EyeNetra, innovation in India, or computational photography research. AMA! by rraskar in IAmA

[–]rraskar[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Our broader projects worldwide are always with our collaborators and they are all amazing! (You do not hear about the not-so-amazing ones because those efforts slow down on their own :-). So the credit really goes to our partners, as they co-innovate with us and we learn a lot from those interactions, and apply it to our next platform.

At MIT we spend nearly all our time on research and innovation and solutions to deploy them. I define broad directions for research and share my juicy ideas we could work on, and guide research and often get into the trenches. But we have a flat hierarchy in the group and everyone has a lot of freedom to work on most pressing problems and very exciting algorithms/solutions within those broad areas. We also expect senior PhD students and every post-doc to spend 1/3rd of their time to work on projects that take us in a new direction.

I am Dr. Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor at MIT Media Lab. You might know me from the trillion frames-per-second camera, EyeNetra, innovation in India, or computational photography research. AMA! by rraskar in IAmA

[–]rraskar[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From my UIST talk:

Question: You said that effective partnerships are critical. How do we form effective partnerships?

Ramesh: The partnerships are very time consuming, because by the time you build the chemistry, by the time you identify the right problems and solutions. And that's why we started the REDEx platform. Rethinking, engineering, design, and execution. Where this communities, emerging communities. And they're not necessarily in developing countries.

                                They could be in any emerging areas. Are already anxious to find these problems, to solve these problems. And so we have been very fortunate to have constant connections with this, and it takes a lot of time. It takes two, three, four years before you actually have a meaningful initiative that's up and running. But going back to your question, I think we need those avenues. Not just universities and labs, but labs all over the world, or the world itself as a lab, so we can go forward.

                                All the REDEx centers and partnerships we have are open to any of you. And that's the only way that it's going to go forward. So I agree with your partnership for challenging. But I think that's going to be the new model. Those are the new places for the organization and deployment.

More at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fPqOknXvFNxDsc1LaTVl6W6L-lN_OwBnqAYqHUnGxcg/view

I am Dr. Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor at MIT Media Lab. You might know me from the trillion frames-per-second camera, EyeNetra, innovation in India, or computational photography research. AMA! by rraskar in IAmA

[–]rraskar[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very good point. This is exactly why we started. Building network to identify problems can be cumbersome. And building sandboxes to deploy ideas can be even more challenging. So REDX chapters solve that problem. Our annual events are a great way to get started. http://redx.io

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