The U.S. Special Operations Command is developing what it calls a “multi-spectral visual system,” which involves combining visual feeds from two sources. But that also creates a problem familiar to anyone who has ever closed one eye while focusing on an object, then switched eyes: the view changes depending on which eye you”re using.
It”s known as the as the parallax effect, and the command is holding a prize challenge to find an algorithm that can correct for parallax in near real time.
With the Algorithm for Real-Time Parallax Correction challenge, the command is looking for a system that can predict what the view would be for other, offset optical sensors being combined to create one view, in order to compensate for their different positions.
February 15, 2016 | Originally published by Date Line: February 15 on
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