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The last five months were productive and intense.  Being a visiting student was one of the coolest experiences in my life!  I came to MIT from Skoltech with a goal to prepare my master’s thesis.  I worked with Achuta Kadambi on projects related to 3D scanning and depth sensors.  From the very first day in the Camera Culture Group I knew I was in the right place.  It was my second time at MIT and I was already familiar with the Institute and Boston. I was not very familiar with the Media Lab, however, and it was a revelation for me. Above all else the Media Lab is a unique place.  It is also alive 24 hours a day and it was absolutely normal to leave the lab in the middle of the night after a long day of work.
I participated in three 3D scanning related projects during my time at MIT.  Some of them were successful and some – not yet. The most exciting project was submitted to SIGGRAPH.  It focused on ways to enhance depth sensing quality using polarization of light. Not only was I able to productively work on a cool idea, I also learned my limits, and I learned how to be effective and efficient.  It was a great experience for me not only from scientific standpoint but also for my personal development.
I am planning to continue my research in computational imaging and in particular in 3D scanning.  I believe that it will be an important in many exciting future applications, such as robotics and augmented reality. These fields will be huge in the future and I hope to make an impact on the field.  I am sure that this wonderful time in the Camera Culture Group took me closer to my goal.
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Vahe’s experiment set up
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Vahe and friends on a group outing to Salem, MA.

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September 13th, 2016

Ramesh Raskar Lemelson-MIT 2016 Winner

Congratulations to Professor Ramesh Raskar and the Camera Culture Group  – Winner of the 2016 Lemelson-MIT prize Ramesh Raskar and […]

September 8th, 2016

Can computers read through a book page by page without opening it?

Terahertz time-gated spectral imaging for content extraction through layered structures A. R. Sanchez, B. Heshmat*, A. Aghasi, M. Zhang, S. […]

November 21st, 2018

Society of Autonomous Vehicles – Part 1

This is part 1 of a multi-part blog series about the Society of Autonomous Vehicles course held in Spring of […]

March 20th, 2018

Seeing Through Realistic Fog

A technique to see through dense, dynamic, and heterogeneous fog conditions. The technique, based on visible light, uses hardware that […]

March 29th, 2017

Efficient Lensless Imaging with a Femto-Pixel

Lensless Imaging with Compressive Ultrafast Sensing Guy Satat, Matthew Tancik, Ramesh Raskar Traditional cameras require a lens and a mega-pixel […]

September 28th, 2016

How to see through tissue

All Photons Imaging Through Volumetric Scattering Guy Satat, Barmak Heshmat, Dan Raviv, Ramesh Raskar We demonstrate a new method that […]

September 12th, 2016

The World is Our Lab

by Roger Archibald Photo credit: John Werner Ramesh Raskar, head of the Media Lab’s Camera Culture Group, takes measure of […]

March 27th, 2016

Handheld 3D Imager to visualize features in the throat like tonsils!

3D visualization of oral cavity and oropharyngeal anatomy may play an important role in the evaluation for obstructive sleep apnea […]

February 24th, 2016

How to use computer vision to improve cities

– Nikhil Naik Transcript from TEDx Beacon Street November, 2015 Here we see a picture of a little girl walking […]

February 12th, 2016

Optical Brush

Optical brush is an open-ended bundle of optical fibers that is enabled with time of flight technology to image and […]

December 3rd, 2015

Innovating for Billions – Ramesh Raskar’s UIST Keynote

28th ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium Charlotte, NC November 8-11, 2015 Watch the presentation on Youtube HERE Keynote […]

December 2nd, 2015

Making 3-D imaging 1,000 times better

Algorithms exploiting light’s polarization boost resolution of commercial depth sensors 1,000-fold. See MIT coverage here. Read more about the work […]

November 26th, 2015

Engineering Health Class Final Presentations on 4 Dec

Great projects and demos- wearables, 3D imaging, novel stethoscopes, imaging the eye, oral imaging.  Followed by health night with guest […]

November 2nd, 2015

Engineering Health Class featured in Medtech

Our Engineering Health class was featured in Medtech Boston. Read the full article here.

October 26th, 2015

OPEN POSITIONS: Technical Assistants

Technical Assistant # 1 Date: December-4-2015 The Camera Culture group at the MIT Media Lab focuses on making the invisible […]

October 15th, 2015

Time-of-Flight Microwave Camera to See Through Walls

New Camera Culture research in Nature Scientific Reports shows a prototype time of flight camera working at microwave frequencies. In […]

September 30th, 2015

How to Make a City Smart? The Indian Context

By: Pranav Chandrasekaran   Introduction – by Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor Media Arts and Sciences, Head of the Camera Culture […]

September 11th, 2015

Kumbh Mela – The World’s Largest Moving City

Kumbh Mela in Nashik Article and Photography by John Werner   “The world’s largest city has no permanent address.”   […]

September 8th, 2015

Engineering Health Fall 2015 Course

MAS.S62: Join us for the first class on Friday, 11 Sept, 1-4 pm in E15-341(Click to go to class webpage)

June 26th, 2015

Vahe Tahmazyan Graduates with Best Thesis