Re:Camera Crushes Lidar, Claims Startup
by BugsJustFindMe on Thursday August 24, 2023 @09:10PM
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> the former are too close together to give stereoscopic depth information at traffic distances
They're only too close together to give very precise depth information, but they do still provide useful depth information.
> We have a camera, basically. We do lots of stuff with the camera, sure. But that's not sensor fusion.
They're varifocal cameras with very good dynamic range that also have full freedom to move around, both rotationally and translationally, which provides, among other things, more depth information and better object boundary segmentation from controlled parallax and focus, and which involves the continuously varied activation of many different muscles and sensory nerves because they're attached to the extremely complex and sensitive proprioceptive structure called the rest of your body, which your brain fully uses as input when processing visual information. And we know that your brain uses this other information, because not having this other information causes reduced perception and motion sickness.
So, no, they're not just cameras. And, yes, we do sensor fusion.
They're only too close together to give very precise depth information, but they do still provide useful depth information.
> We have a camera, basically. We do lots of stuff with the camera, sure. But that's not sensor fusion.
They're varifocal cameras with very good dynamic range that also have full freedom to move around, both rotationally and translationally, which provides, among other things, more depth information and better object boundary segmentation from controlled parallax and focus, and which involves the continuously varied activation of many different muscles and sensory nerves because they're attached to the extremely complex and sensitive proprioceptive structure called the rest of your body, which your brain fully uses as input when processing visual information. And we know that your brain uses this other information, because not having this other information causes reduced perception and motion sickness.
So, no, they're not just cameras. And, yes, we do sensor fusion.