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Researchers from MIT have developed a technique that can reconstruct images of objects snapped in near total darkness. The scientists trained a deep neural network on "more than 10,000 transparent glass-like etchings, based on extremely grainy images of those patterns." They claim those grainy images were taken with about one photon per pixel, and that they used a "light modulator" to display the vast amount of images they needed to reproduce. Anexandre Goy, one of the co-authors of the study, said that "We have shown that deep learning can reveal invisible objects in the dark," and that "This result is of practical importance for medical imaging to lower the exposure of the patient to harmful radiation, and for astronomical imaging."
From an original transparent etching (far right), engineers produced a photograph in the dark (top left), then attempted to reconstruct the object using first a physics-based algorithm (top right), then a trained neural network (bottom left), before combining both the neural network with the physics-based algorithm to produce the clearest, most accurate reproduction (bottom right) of the original object.
From an original transparent etching (far right), engineers produced a photograph in the dark (top left), then attempted to reconstruct the object using first a physics-based algorithm (top right), then a trained neural network (bottom left), before combining both the neural network with the physics-based algorithm to produce the clearest, most accurate reproduction (bottom right) of the original object.