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Comment by yourapostasy

2 days ago

20 stops dynamic range is about the human eye's range. Achieving that for digital capture and display would be mind blowing.

I still don’t understand how vision only self driving cars are viable without also having 20 stops of dynamic range.

  • I’m amazed that they only have one camera. A cheap solution to dynamic range would be to have two cameras, one for bright, high resolution, and one for low light, low resolution.

    • I thought that was what HDR was at first in my young naive days: for the same sensor put several ADCs in parallel with overlapping ranges and auto-switch to the non-saturated one...