The New Science of Seeing Around Corners

[ergophobe]

Your next privacy concern....

Computer vision researchers have uncovered a world of visual signals hiding in our midst, including subtle motions that betray what's being said and faint images of what's around a corner.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-new-science-of-seeing-around-corners-20180830/

[Rupert]

and:

This summer, they demonstrated that they can film a houseplant and then reconstruct a three-dimensional image of the rest of the room from the disparate shadows cast by the plant's leaves. Or they can turn the leaves into a "visual microphone," magnifying their vibrations to listen to what's being said.

wow.