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Embedded Linux On a High Speed Camera

Posted by timothy on from the cool-hardware dept.

destructor writes: "Linuxdevices has an interesting article on a High Speed Gated Intensified Camera that "combines a fast gated micro-channel plate (MCP) image intensifier, a CMOS image sensor, and an embedded computer based on an Axis Communications ETRAX RISC processor running Embedded Linux." The camera (Elphel Model 303) itself is network operable and can be used for capturing images of explosions, lightning bolts, etc. Link found via. megarad.com."

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  1. Actually useful! by madenosine · · Score: 2, Insightful

    At first sight, I thought running Linux on a camera would be useless, but it actually DOES have some great uses; mainly high quality, low budget films, in which a low budget movie can produce effects like those in The Matrix, for a fraction of the cost. IMO, small, abstract markets like this might be more important to the future of Linux than things like Linux on PDAs.

  2. A good pattern recognition framework needed by MacroRex · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Imagine all the uses if we had a modular pattern recognition framework that can analyze pictures taken with this thing. One would only need to write a module that recognizes a specific thing to be able to have that information usable in any application.

    For example, if I had the ability to extract all facial images captured by the camera I could feed them to something like this.

    Of course there are big issues about privacy and whatnot with that kind of application, but I'm not going to touch that here. There are plenty of other, non-privacy intruding uses for an automated image analyzation system.