Re:New Tesla software to offer 'full' autonomy, Musk says
by Someone on Monday June 11, 2018 @05:23PM
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“One eye”, in humans, has about 125 million sensors (120 million rods, 6 million cones) Calling that “one sensor” is cheating slightly.
But yes, you only need that second eye for stereo vision if you only have data from a single moment in time.
In theory, you can see perfect 3D with a single photoreceptor by scanning with it (giving up temporal resolution, a bit like a electron gun that can write a million pixels per second writes only 50 or 60 images a second on a tv)
Re:New Tesla software to offer 'full' autonomy, Musk says
by isostatic on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @06:38AM
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By your logic, a 125megapixel camera arguably has 125 million sensors too?
Re:New Tesla software to offer 'full' autonomy, Musk says
by Someone on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @01:09PM
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Assuming it’s a color camera, at least double that :-)
Re:New Tesla software to offer 'full' autonomy, Musk says
by JackCh on Monday June 11, 2018 @04:50PM
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I have perfect vision in one eye and very poor vision in the other. While it's possible for me to drive without my glasses, I don't consider it safe. With one eye I can read signs, see pedestrians, cars, etc; but I find that the accuracy of my depth perception suffers. I estimate speed and distances with less precision. Try catching a baseball with one eye covered. It's possible but a lot harder.
Re:New Tesla software to offer 'full' autonomy, Musk says
by Symmetry on Monday June 11, 2018 @03:10PM
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Your brain is using something in the ballpark of a petaflop of computing power to do that sort of incredible stuff.
Re:New Tesla software to offer 'full' autonomy, Musk says
by orbital-decay on Monday June 11, 2018 @02:48PM
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Motion is not required either. There's a reason for a shallow DoF in big photographic lenses/sensors. Bokeh can be represented as a processed depth map.
See “Depth Perception” at [1].
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_perception