Pretty soon, the current iteration of digital cameras and phones will join film cameras in the junk shop of history. That’s because pixels are dead, or soon will be: A rapidly advancing technology called the single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) sensor is poised to replace current CMOS sensors over the next decade and revolutionize imaging one light particle at a time.
Currently, these SPAD sensors are almost too powerful: They collect a massive amount of visual data—so much that it is difficult for the processors in our phones or cars to render them into practical images or videos. That’s where Ubicept, a startup company founded by researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and MIT, comes in.
Ubicept is a computational imaging company developing algorithms that can quickly process SPAD data to make the sensors useful in real time; it also uses the extra information from photons to aid in 3D imaging and other sensing applications.
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