The origins of Computational photography and its astrophotography applications at NASA and its impact on the  future vision of photography and motion picture

Mohamed, Mostafa Hassan Kamel; Anany, Wael Mohammed; Al Moteay, Atef

doi:10.21608/mjaf.2022.140618.2772

The origins of Computational photography and its astrophotography applications at NASA and its impact on the future vision of photography and motion picture

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¹ photography and cinematography department-faculty of applied arts- Helwan university

² Department of Photography, Cinema, and Television, Faculty of Applied Arts, Helwan University.

³ Applied Arts Helwan Unversity

10.21608/mjaf.2022.140618.2772

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Abstract:
Computational photography is a field of modern imaging resulting from the Fusion of computer programming with digital photography as a result of the great technological development since the entry of digital cameras into mobile phones, which prompted programmers to develop self-processing programs within mobile phones that are carried out on photographs and motion pictures to raise the efficiency of the images emerging from them. To compensate for the weakness of these cameras as a result of the small sensor surface and small plastic lenses from which these cameras are manufactured, this development in writing processing programs for these phones has been happening for more than a decade, in addition to the use of a powerful digital processor inside these phones, so the image quality resulting from these phones has reached a quality approaching Ostensibly from the images extracted from professional cameras that depend heavily on the hardware of professional cameras from big sensors and heavily treatments that used in manufacturing professional photographic lenses.
Nasa always dreamed of photographing the Elliptical Galaxy to capture a real black hole and they calculated the size of the telescope that can capture that image and they find it to be the size of the earth and impossible to manufacture, That’s why NASA developed and used computational photography to make a giant virtual telescope using eight ordinary telescopes, and they succeeded in taking a giant photograph of the elliptical galaxy and proving the theory of black holes by photographing the black hole in real-time, thanks to computational photography and its impact on digital imaging, which contributed greatly in the field of scientific photography.

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