MIT Libraries logoDSpace@MIT

MIT
View Item 
  • DSpace@MIT Home
  • MIT Open Access Articles
  • MIT Open Access Articles
  • View Item
  • DSpace@MIT Home
  • MIT Open Access Articles
  • MIT Open Access Articles
  • View Item
JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

Accidental pinhole and pinspeck cameras: Revealing the scene outside the picture

Author(s)
Torralba, Antonio; Freeman, William T.
Thumbnail
DownloadTorralba_Accidental pinhole.pdf (8.261Mb)
OPEN_ACCESS_POLICY

Open Access Policy

Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike

Terms of use
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Metadata
Show full item record
Abstract
We identify and study two types of “accidental” images that can be formed in scenes. The first is an accidental pinhole camera image. These images are often mistaken for shadows, but can reveal structures outside a room, or the unseen shape of the light aperture into the room. The second class of accidental images are “inverse” pinhole camera images, formed by subtracting an image with a small occluder present from a reference image without the occluder. The reference image can be an earlier frame of a video sequence. Both types of accidental images happen in a variety of different situations (an indoor scene illuminated by natural light, a street with a person walking under the shadow of a building, etc.). Accidental cameras can reveal information about the scene outside the image, the lighting conditions, or the aperture by which light enters the scene.
Date issued
2012-06
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90953
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Journal
Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Citation
Torralba, A., and W. T. Freeman. “Accidental Pinhole and Pinspeck Cameras: Revealing the Scene Outside the Picture.” 2012 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (June 2012), 16-21 June 2012, Providence, RI. IEEE, p.374-381.
Version: Author's final manuscript
Other identifiers
INSPEC Accession Number: 12884784
ISBN
978-1-4673-1228-8
978-1-4673-1226-4
978-1-4673-1227-1
ISSN
1063-6919

Collections
  • MIT Open Access Articles

Browse

All of DSpaceCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjects

My Account

Login

Statistics

OA StatisticsStatistics by CountryStatistics by Department
MIT Libraries
PrivacyPermissionsAccessibilityContact us
MIT
Content created by the MIT Libraries, CC BY-NC unless otherwise noted. Notify us about copyright concerns.