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Re:Tempe Police Release Video of Uber Accident by voxadam on Thursday March 22, 2018 @01:14AM (#16645942)
Is there any reason it wouldn't be possible to employ multiple cameras each with varying gain/ISO/aperture/exposure/shutter-speed to combat the narrow dynamic range of the individual sensors? Basically create an HDR stream in parallel instead of in series by varying the settings from frame to frame.

Disclaimer: I have a frustratingly poor understanding of this subject, something I desperately need to remedy.

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Re:Tempe Police Release Video of Uber Accident by stuartgm on Thursday March 22, 2018 @04:20PM (#16652354)
This sort of method is used in the Canon DSLR custom firmware Magic Lantern for HDR video - it brackets the exposure by ISO. However you have some problems with moving subjects: https://youtu.be/5me5jEr4ldQ?t=415 (warning - flashing images)
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Re:Tempe Police Release Video of Uber Accident by voxadam on Saturday March 24, 2018 @03:54AM (#16665433)
That's interesting but it still seems to be utilizing a single sensor set to different exposures in series, not multiple synchronized global shutter image sensors each set to different exposures. While such a setup may have little to no use for human perception what I'm talking about is feeding each stream into a vision system, be it a classical vision pipeline or deep net system.
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