Image sensors used in consumer cameras only detect intensity of light. Spectral, angular, and phase information of incident light is largely lost. For conventional applications like photography, the intensity information with three color bands (RGB) is sufficient. However, for advanced sensing applications, such as autonomous vehicles, biomedical imaging, and robotics, extracting more information from the incident light could help machines to make better decisions. It is expected that, in the future, more cameras will be built for machines than for people, which will be further accelerated by the rapid progress in machine learning and artificial intelligence. We envision that these applications will substantially benefit from multimodal measurement of light fields by advanced imaging sensors. In this Perspective, we discuss recent progress in image sensors with multimodal capabilities.
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25 July 2022
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Multimodal light-sensing pixel arrays
Yurui Qu
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Yurui Qu
(Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing)
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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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Soongyu Yi;
Soongyu Yi
(Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing)
2
OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
, Santa Clara, California 95054, USA
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Lan Yang
;
Lan Yang
(Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing)
3
Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Washington University
, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, USA
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Zongfu Yu
Zongfu Yu
a)
(Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing)
1
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
a)Author to whom correspondence should be addressed: [email protected]
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Yurui Qu
1
Soongyu Yi
2
Lan Yang
3
Zongfu Yu
1,a)
1
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
2
OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
, Santa Clara, California 95054, USA
3
Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Washington University
, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, USA
a)Author to whom correspondence should be addressed: [email protected]
Appl. Phys. Lett. 121, 040501 (2022)
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Received:
March 03 2022
Accepted:
June 16 2022
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Yurui Qu, Soongyu Yi, Lan Yang, Zongfu Yu; Multimodal light-sensing pixel arrays. Appl. Phys. Lett. 25 July 2022; 121 (4): 040501. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0090138
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