Laboratory for Engineering Non-traditional Sensors (LENS)

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Welcome! You've probably arrived here looking for information regarding the recent article in Nature, "Multiscale Gigapixel Photography".

Our group, the Laboratory for Engineering Non-traditional Sensors (LENS), was responsible for developing the approach (and related software) for combining the individual microcamera images into a final representation of the scene. Our fundamental goal was to develop an approach that could scale to eventually accommodate the prodigious data rates that the new camera architecture makes possible.

For more details, check out our overview of image formation in AWARE

Current Sponsors:

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA): “Computational Imaging.”
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA): “Multiscale Opticial Sensor Array Imaging Camera (MOSAIC).”
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA): “Knowldege-Enhanced Compressive Measurement (KECoM).”
National Science Foundation (NSF): “Gradient-index mm-Wave/terahertz components via polymer-jetting rapid prototyping.”
National Science Foundation (NSF): “Development of a Sub-waivelength THz Spectral Imager for Photonic and Phononic Metamaterial and Devices Research at the Univesity of Arizona.”

Past Sponsors:

MITRE Corporation: “Combinatorial group testing for change detection in persistent, pervasive surveillance.”
Ricoh Innovations: “University gift.”