Darpa’s Beady-Eyed Camera Spots the ‘Non-Cooperative’ | Danger Room | Wired.com

Darpa’s Beady-Eyed Camera Spots the ‘Non-Cooperative’ | Danger Room | Wired.com: "Soon, keeping your head down won’t be enough to stump high-tech security cameras, thanks to Pentagon-funded researchers developing mini-cameras that can nab threats by hunting down — and scanning — their eyeballs. A team of electrical engineers at Southern Methodist University (SMU), led by Professor Marc Christensen, first created the cameras with funding from Darpa, the Pentagon’s research agency. Called Panoptes, the devices use low-resolution sensors to create a high-res image that can be captured using a lightweight, ultra-slim camera. Because they don’t use a lens, the cameras were originally designed for miniature drone sensors and troop helmet-cams."