{"id":194,"date":"2014-02-23T08:10:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T16:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2014-02-22T21:31:58","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T05:31:58","slug":"tesseract-refocusing-for-the-rest-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/23\/tesseract-refocusing-for-the-rest-of-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesseract: Refocusing for the rest of us?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tesseract.in\/index.html\">Tesseract<\/a> promises &#8220;a new camera technology that allows you to perform SLR-like depth of field effects, digital refocusing, 3D color filters and much more on your mobile phone.&#8221; Noting its ability to generate separate layers, TechCrunch <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2014\/02\/19\/mit-startup-tesseract-aims-to-commercialize-mobile-digital-photo-refocusing-and-3d-effects\/\">says<\/a>, &#8220;It\u2019s part RAW, part PSD but straight from your mobile device\u2019s camera.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/78004379\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Tesseract Imaging\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Post-capture refocusing still strikes me as a parlor trick, but image segmentation to enable better extraction, compositing, and depth of field effects seems highly useful. You can get a bit more info from founder Kshitij Marwah&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IIpiZ-CC0Tc\">recent talk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the company has released <a href=\"http:\/\/tesseract.in\/technology.html\">FOCII<\/a>, a printable transparency mask that lets you &#8220;take any existing DSLR and convert into a light field camera for post capture refocusing with a simple $1 filter!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/65283506\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"FOCII: Light Field Cameras For Everyone\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/78004379\">Vimeo 1<\/a> &#038; <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/65283506\">2<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesseract promises &#8220;a new camera technology that allows you to perform SLR-like depth of field effects, digital refocusing, 3D color filters and much more on your mobile phone.&#8221; Noting its ability to generate separate layers, TechCrunch says, &#8220;It\u2019s part RAW, part PSD but straight from your mobile device\u2019s camera.&#8221; Post-capture refocusing still strikes me as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}