3D Imaging And LiDAR – Poised To Dominate Autonomy And Perception

3D Imaging And LiDAR – Poised To Dominate Autonomy And Perception

Figure 1: A 3D Reconstruction Of The Brain Obtained From Magnetic Resonance Imaging Mri And Magentic ... [+] Electroencephalography Meg Data. This Image Was Obtained In A 21 Year Old Man With Frontal Lobe Epilepsy. The Colors Indicate The Localization Of The Interictal Triggering Point The Red Zone In The Frontal Lobe. (Photo By BSIP/UIG Via Getty Images) We live in a world full of data and imagery. With the invention of the camera in the late 1800s, entertainment, consumer, space, and medicine applications proliferated. The launch of the video camera in the early 1900s continued this revolution, and was accelerated by significant progress in supporting technologies like semiconductors, computing, image processing, machine learning and artificial intelligence. Typically, these focused on 2D renditions of images and data. 3D imaging started with specialized applications like magnetic resonance imaging in the 1980s (MRI), outer space-based LiDARs (1993) and dental imaging (1995). Since then, it has been maturing and gaining significant traction in diversified applications. The data can be generated based on various active or passive techniques. Active techniques include transmitting electromagnetic (X-Ray, radio, optical) or acoustic (sonar, ultrasonic) waves onto the object of interest, and detection and analysis of the return energy