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FastCompany_0208Fast Company interviewed Irfan Essa, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, who heads the school's Interdisciplinary Research Center for Machine Learning. He says that an ever-stronger connection among those areas "has grown into more object-centric thinking." Computational photography moves beyond just capturing pixels, he says, into capturing light, which allows it to extract the geometry of a scene. "If you know where the object is and what surface it's on, you can do more with it," he says.
Read the rest of the article here: https://www.fastcompany.com/3067252/the-future-of-photography-is-about-computation
