Velten awarded NASA grant to Explore Lunar Caves using "Seeing Around Corners"

Lunar Cave

August 14, 2015

University of Wisconsin-Madison
Daily Mail
Phys.Org
R&D Mag

Andreas Velten, a Morgridge Institute Affiliate with the Medical Engineering Group and assistant scientist with UW-Madison Laboratory of Optical and Computational Instrumentation, has developed a technology that fires and recaptures scattered laser light to literally "see around corners." This will be used by NASA to illuminate and understand lunar caves.

Andreas Velten awarded Air Force OSR grant for advance in imaging technology

Andreas Velten

January 27, 2015

Andreas Velten won a grant for his work in imaging technology through the Air Force's Young Investigator Research Program.

LOCI Assistant Scientist featured as Morgridge institute Affiliate

Stitched Image of a Zebrafish

September 2, 2014

LOCI Assistant Scientist Andreas Velten was recently featured in Inside UW-Madison for his work as a Morgridge Institute Affiliate to develop new tools in optical imaging with applications ranging from basic research labs to operating suites.

The Future of Light-Based Technologies

laser pulse going through a soda bottle

July 16, 2012

In an interview with Spectroscopy, Velten talks about the origins of the femto photography project as well as future applications of the technology.

'See-around-a-corner' camera prototype unveiled

looking around corners mannequin

March 21, 2012

USA TODAY published an article featuring the "looking around corners project," which uses a streak camera and laser to reconstruct 3D images of objects hidden around a corner. This article also includes the Nature Communications video explaining the project.

A camera that peers around corners

MIT camera that peers around corners photo

March 21, 2012

Prior to the release of the article in Nature Communications, MIT News published an article describing the Media Lab's new camera system that can reconstruct images of objects outside the direct line of sight.

Trillion-frame-per-second video

femto photography tomato

December 13, 2011

MIT researchers created a new imaging system that is able to capture visual data at a rate of one trillion frames per second. Ramesh Raskar and Andreas Velten talk about how the camera works and future applications for the technology.

Speed of Light Lingers in Face of New Camera

femto photography tomato in the New York Times

December 12, 2011

Femto photography and related work of MIT researchers, Andreas Velten and Ramesh Raskar, were featured in an article in The New York Times.

Visualizing video at the speed of light- one trillion frames per second

Andreas Velten and Ramesh Raskar

December 12, 2011

The You Tube video released by the MIT Media Lab explaining femto photography and showing some of the results.