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The dynamic range is the reason Tesla know counts photons rather than use traditional camera processing. They basically remove the concept of exposure entirely and simply pass the sensor photon counts to the neural net. This approach not only simpler as it removes photo processing/encoding but the result is that the NN can operate with a very high dynamic range similar to the human eye and in many cases can be sensit…
> They basically remove the concept of exposure entirely and simply pass the sensor photon counts to the neural net. That sentence does not make sense. There's no such thing as a count without a corresponding interval that count occurred over. That interval is the exposure. You can of course do lots of (very) short exposures to avoid sensor saturation. That's "just" a movie at a very high frame rate. And then you can…
You're right though that we don't typically use real-time neural networks that operate based upon spike rate, so an interval needs to be chosen for photon counting which could be considered a kind of exposure and it is critical that the interval be short enough to avoid saturation.