Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection

Camera Culture head Ramesh Raskar talks to Rashmi Mohan about his interdisciplinary research and entrepreneurial endeavors.

An MIT-developed vaccination card aims to cut through vaccine distribution chaos while preserving patient privacy.

The project is a multi-faculty, cross-MIT effort, with input and expertise from multiple institutes.

Thursday August 20, 2020 ...

These sessions will focus on tools for privacy-aware contact tracing.

Wednesday June 3, 2020 ...

These are public talks via webcast every Wednesday at 10am. Safe Paths—an MIT-led, free, open source technology that enabl...

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Ramesh Raskar gives an update on his nonprofit’s progression in developing the Safe Paths mobile app and Safe Places web tool.

Ramesh Raskar details these tools and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of different contact tracing methods.

Your phone soon might know if you have spent time near someone with the COVID-19 virus.

Researchers are racing to achieve the benefits of location-tracking without the surveillance.

To help explain how this works is Ramesh Raskar, an associate professor at MIT’s Media Lab.

The app is designed to let people discover if they've crossed paths with someone who's been infected with COVID-19.

A system that enables smartphones to transmit “chirps” to nearby devices could notify people if they have been near an infected person.

Private Kit: Safe Paths shares information about your movements in a privacy-preserving way—and could let health officials tackle COVID-19.

China, South Korea used smartphone apps to monitor people with the disease. Americans have different views of privacy and data collection.

The MIT Media Lab, a hallowed digital playground and research center into media technologies, is celebrating its 25th anniversary. We'll ...

MIT Media Lab fosters innovation with its motto of 'imagine and realise.'

MIT Media Lab professor Ramesh Raskar talks about how his high-tech inventions and initiatives can help solve real-world problems.

Media Tyler PhD students among 14 collegiate inventors awarded the 2018 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize

New 3D camera research from the Media Lab’s Camera Culture group was selected for the Best Papers Special Issue of the ICCV.

Technique could lead to cameras that can handle light of any intensity, audio that doesn’t skip or pop.

Tested with five American cities, Streetchange quantifies the physical improvement or deterioration of neighborhoods.

Machine learning is helping urbanists confirm–or disprove–long-standing theories about cities.

When a group of forensic dentistry experts set out in 2016 to investigate what may have caused some peculiar holes in a T. rex jaw, they ...

One day, you're a terrible killing and eating machine. Flash forward 65 million years, and you're being conquered by a $150 gaming access...

Streetchange uses computer vision and Google Street View to understand urban transformations over time.

Facebook volunteers and work-at-home moms might be making city planning decisions, thanks to AI research conducted by MIT scientists. Res...

Researchers have used machine learning to quantify the physical improvement or deterioration of neighborhoods in five American cities.

Using computer vision to examine Google Street View, the researchers analyzed how streets and blocks have changed in five American cities.