Researchers have designed a single-photon time-of-flight LiDAR system that can acquire a high-resolution 3D image of an object or scene up to 1 kilometer away. The new system could help enhance security, monitoring, and remote sensing by enabling detailed imaging even in challenging environmental conditions or when objects are obscured by foliage or camouflage netting.
Really cool, but really scary, all I see is facial biometrics from 1 km away.
Hello sir, I’m an not from the government and would like to show you something off in the distance for about 3 seconds if you will. Step forward where I’ve carefully marked the street with blue painter’s tape. Do not smile. Did you see it? No? Good!. Well what it is, its ah… Don’t worry about it. Good day sir. What are you talking about? I asked you to step where? I did no such thing. I’m just a normal person living in the city.
And suddenly masking got a whole lot more popular.