Dear public-webrtc group, I am writing on behalf of a cadre of researchers and cultural heritage specialists here at Northwestern University that have taken great interest in WebRTC as a tool for scientific progress. Our team, assembled from members of the Computational Photography Lab <http://compphotolab.northwestern.edu/> and the Center for Scientific Study in the Arts <https://scienceforart.northwestern.edu/>, has been working on novel applications of web technologies for cultural and scientific applications, and we wanted to reach out and praise the work you all have been doing with WebRTC. In particular, we are currently leveraging features from the MediaStream "Image Capture" API for a very unique application, which will enable museum conservators to quickly take measurements of cultural heritage objects such as paintings and sculptures. We are hoping to use some of the lesser known or to-be-developed features in the "Image Capture" API, such as focus control and exposure time control, to improve the reliability and quality of such measurements. We also wish to extend our support for the ongoing development of the photographic controls set, else we would not be living up to the name of our lab! Our group anticipated that it might be nice to hear about applications of WebRTC beyond the scope of person-to-person communication that could drive home the utility of such a development. We saw some correspondences between WebRTC maintainers talking about focus control and exposure time control being added to the implementation in the near future; is there some way to get an idea of precisely when that rollout would occur? Thanks, William Spies Research Associate CompPhotoLab @ Northwestern University Seeley Mudd Building, Room 3406 2233 Tech Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 http://compphotolab.northwestern.edu/ https://scienceforart.northwestern.edu/
Received on Tuesday, 20 November 2018 08:44:37 UTC