Pixel Visual Core: Google’s first custom-designed co-processor

Re:Pixel Visual Core: Google’s first custom-designed co-proc... by londons_explore on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @01:12PM (#15500894)

Can you burst 80 frames @ 60fps of 12 bit 12 megapixel RAW and save all that output, together with the output of gyroscopes and accelerometers timed to the start and end of exposure of every row of the image?

If you can, you might be able to postprocess it... But as far as I know, no DSLR cameras even have gyros, nor sufficiently high burst rates, so that kind of photography is out of the question.

It comes out to over a gigabyte of data per image... and you can't compress it before processing...

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Re:Pixel Visual Core: Google’s first custom-designed co-proc... by bradleyjg on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @09:54PM (#15504894)

Good point about the gyros and accelerometers. I'd think you could do decent lossless compression given that the frames should very similar. I suppose though that once you are doing sophisticated compression you aren't that far off from implementing the post processing we are talking about.

I guess the long and short of it is these camera companies aren't software people--except isn't Sony a big camera company? You'd think they'd be able to bridge the gap.

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