There's nowhere to hide anymore: This AI can see around corners | Artificial intelligence (AI) - CNET

Eric Mack, contributor to CNET says, The future is about lasers that can see what you can't.

Researchers used deep learning to create a new laser-based system that enables imaging around corners in real time.
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Hiding behind a wall might not be practical for much longer thanks to new technology that uses artificial intelligence to see and even read around corners.

A team of researchers from Princeton, Stanford, Rice and Southern Methodist universities devised a system that uses powerful lasers similar to a laser pointer. The beam is bounced off a visible wall and onto a hidden object behind a corner. The beam then bounces off the object and back onto the wall.

This creates an interference pattern on the wall called a speckle pattern. The image of the hidden object is encoded in this pattern, and the researchers turned to a deep learning algorithm to perform the complex computations required to reconstruct it in real time...

The research has been published in the journal Optica.
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Source: CNET