A digital camera with audio, visual and motion analysis comprising: a camera body; a lens supported by the camera body; an imaging sensor supported by the camera body in alignment with the lens; a sound sensor supported by the camera body; an input processing system supported by the camera body including (a) a system bus; (b) a digital processor coupled to the bus; (c) a sound sensor subsystem coupling an output of the sound sensor to the bus; (d) a high precision clock, separate from a system clock, to provide synchronous clock signals to the sound sensor subsystem; (e) an imaging sensor subsystem coupling an output of the imaging sensor to the bus; and (f) non-transitory digital memory coupled to the bus including code segments, executable by the digital processor, for real-time audio, visual and motion analysis to develop a digital model of an ambient environment of the digital camera from metadata and data derived from the sound sensor subsystem, the code segments implementing at least one of a Structure from Motion, SfM, process and a Simultaneous Localization And Mapping, SLAM, process, and the metadata including a synthesis of motion signals and imaging signals from data derived from the sound sensor subsystem and the imaging sensor subsystem. a camera body; a lens supported by the camera body; an imaging sensor supported by the camera body in alignment with the lens; a sound sensor supported by the camera body; an input processing system supported by the camera body including (a) a system bus; (b) a digital processor coupled to the bus; (c) a sound sensor subsystem coupling an output of the sound sensor to the bus; (d) a high precision clock, separate from a system clock, to provide synchronous clock signals to the sound sensor subsystem; (e) an imaging sensor subsystem coupling an output of the imaging sensor to the bus; and (f) non-transitory digital memory coupled to the bus including code segments, executable by the digital processor, for real-time audio, visual and motion analysis to develop a digital model of an ambient environment of the digital camera from metadata and data derived from the sound sensor subsystem, the code segments implementing at least one of a Structure from Motion, SfM, process and a Simultaneous Localization And Mapping, SLAM, process, and the metadata including a synthesis of motion signals and imaging signals from data derived from the sound sensor subsystem and the imaging sensor subsystem. (a) a system bus; (b) a digital processor coupled to the bus; (c) a sound sensor subsystem coupling an output of the sound sensor to the bus; (d) a high precision clock, separate from a system clock, to provide synchronous clock signals to the sound sensor subsystem; (e) an imaging sensor subsystem coupling an output of the imaging sensor to the bus; and (f) non-transitory digital memory coupled to the bus including code segments, executable by the digital processor, for real-time audio, visual and motion analysis to develop a digital model of an ambient environment of the digital camera from metadata and data derived from the sound sensor subsystem, the code segments implementing at least one of a Structure from Motion, SfM, process and a Simultaneous Localization And Mapping, SLAM, process, and the metadata including a synthesis of motion signals and imaging signals from data derived from the sound sensor subsystem and the imaging sensor subsystem. the code segments implementing at least one of a Structure from Motion, SfM, process and a Simultaneous Localization And Mapping, SLAM, process, and the metadata including a synthesis of motion signals and imaging signals from data derived from the sound sensor subsystem and the imaging sensor subsystem.