📷 How much distance detail can a 2D image really capture? The Cramer-Rao lower bound – a theoretical limit on how precisely we can measure distances in images – tells us that today’s cameras operate at only 1% of their potential. Lens flaws, sensor imperfections, and environmental obstacles keep us far from reaching it. These limitations add up to create a DARPA-hard problem, which we’re looking to solve in the Computational Imaging Detection and Ranging (CIDAR) Challenge. If solving big proble