Raskar, Camera Culture, MIT Media Lab
MIT Media Lab
For information on detailed contributors see
http://raskar.info
Dr. Barmak Heshmat
and Prof. Ramesh Raskar
Before Your Immortality!
A journey to diagnostics of the future
Raskar, Camera Culture, MIT Media Lab
The idea of elixir of life has
been around for thousands
of years but let’s face it we
are going to die!
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Increasing average life span
• Physics of body (Repair and preserve)
– Mental balance
– Physical exercise
– Food
• (Chemistry)  Sensors
– Diagnostics
• (Physics, Chemistry, Statistics) Sensors and Computers
– Treatment
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Now why now?!
Electronics starting to
become portable
Optics starting to
become portable
1) Optics is now starting to become
cheaper and more portable through
new miniaturization techniques.
(Nanomaterials, nanoplasmonics,
etc.)
2) 3D printing and quicker and cheaper
prototyping
What are the recent discoveries that
can help us toward healthier, longer
lifespan?
Wave of spectrometers, sensors, and add-ons
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Wave of spectrometers
• They were all there in the lab but now they are entering
consumer market!
– Optical absorption  diagnostic
– Raman  food analysis
– THz  skin, cosmetics, breath
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Example
• Just like super computers we still need the accurate lab spectrometers but
portable versions can be used limited applications.
• Raman spectrometer from lab to the key chain!
Tellspec
DeltaNu®
ReporteR™
Smiths Detection
RespondeR™ RCI
Microphazir™
Horiba T64000
?
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…THz
400THzFrequency(Hz) 800THz
Unique spectroscopy
capabilities
Study of THz dynamics
Faster
communication
Imaging and
inspection
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Our ultimate
dream was!
Last 10 years
in our lab
2012
in our lab
Future, in our hand
The miniaturization process
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It’s real!
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Wave of add-ons
Literally everywhere!
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The Sanofi iBGStar
Wello
ihealth pulse oximeterWahoo heart rate strap
ihealth
Polar FT60
fitness watch
Zensorium
Looking Around Corners
Hardware App StoreTrillion FPS
Eye Tests
Eye .. Window to Health
Slit Lamp for
Cataracts
14
Slit Lamp Exam Retinal Scan
Retinal
Scan
Phoropter
Pamplona, Mohan, Oliveira, Raskar SIGGRAPH 2010
eyeNETRA:
Glasses and Cataract
Shack-Hartmann WS
Wavefront aberrometer
Refraction Map using Wavefront Sensor
300+ DPI LCDs
NETRA = Inverse of Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor
User interactively creates the Spot Diagram
Spot Diagram
on LCD
1. Displace 25
spots with
smart UI
CellPhone
LCD
EyePiece
2. Displace spots
till single dot
perceived
Diabetic Retinopathy
eyeMITRA.com
Lawson, Roesch, Canham, Ben-Ezra, Raskar 2013
Credits:
Wired UK
Eye .. Window to CURRENT Health
Diabetes
Syphilis
Grave’s disease
Sjogren
Marfan’s
Syndrome
Sickle Cell
Disease
Toxoplasmosis
Coagulation
Disorder
Tuberculosis
Systemic Conditions – Lagging Indicators
Direct Access: Vessels, Nerve FL
Body changes slowly
Co-located vascular + neurological
Involuntary, fine detail
Eye .. a Predictor?
1964
Milli
Micro
Nano
Pico
Femto
Atto
Bullet of Light
1,000,000 x Faster
Milli
Micro
Nano
Pico
Femto
Atto
Light in Slow Motion ..
10 Billion x Slow
Light in Slow Motion ..
Andreas Velten, Di Wu, Christopher Barsi, Everett Lawson
Raw Data
Can you see
around corners ?
2nd Bounce
1st Bounce
3rd Bounce
Femto-Camera
Wall
Door
Hidden
Mannequin
Velten et al, Nature Communications 2012
Avoiding Collisions
Andreas Velten, Thomas Willwacher, Otkrist Gupta, Ashok Veeraraghavan,
Moungi Bawendi, Ramesh Raskar, Nature Communications 2012
…, rescue operations, …
Rohit Pandharkar, Velten, Bardagjy, Lawson, Bawendi, Raskar, CVPR 2011
…, cardioscopies, …
…, colonoscopies, …
Moving on to the miniaturization
Time of flight camera
• Cheaper, safer, more compact, but less accurate.
R. Raskar, et al., “Coded Time of Flight Cameras: Sparse Deconvolution to Address Multipath Interference and Recover Time Profiles”, SIGGRAPH
Asia 2013.
Looking Around Corners
Hardware App StoreTrillion FPS
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Eye Tests
These are amazing advancements and technologies but be
careful with the claims; things take time to develop and
usually have limited capabilities at the beginning.

Before your immortality!