The scope of the 2013 Imaging Systems and Application meeting encompasses all aspects modern digital imaging. Topics of interest range from system components such as lens systems, visible and infrared focal plane arrays, read-out and communications electronics, and advanced and applied digital image processing software through applications in security, entertainment and machine vision. The meeting emphasizes applications that exploit the advantages of digital images, such as techniques that can be used to enhance the visual appearance, to extract important information automatically, to compressively format for data storage and transmission and to optimize image data for display, or that overcome challenges of digital images, such as limited dynamic range, depth of field, spatio-temporal resolution and depth of field. The meeting includes advances and application of image processing for scene segmentation, image analysis, compression, reconstruction and quality assessment, image enhancement, pattern/target recognition, and applications of image analysis to visual and industrial/military applications such as manufactured product inspection, target tracking and motion estimation. Results from studies in using digital imagery to extract tomographic, volumetric, time resolved, and super-resolved imagery information are within the scope of papers to be presented.
Applications cover military, industrial, medical and consumer imaging. Investigations of military imaging in all bands and in the applications of target acquisition, intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance (ISR), and persistent surveillance are within the scope of this meeting. Amateur and professional photography, imaging for robotics and process control imaging are further examples of topics that are relevant to this meeting. The application of the latest advances in computational, adaptive, and compressive imaging in new imaging system demonstrations will also be presented at this meeting. Human interaction with imaging systems and the display of imaging information for overall system performance will also be included. Progress and status of industrial, medical, and consumer imaging is will be reviewed and future trends and requirements will be presented.
Topic Categories
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Applications of military, industrial, medical and consumer imaging:
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Military imaging in all bands, target acquisition, intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance (ISR), and persistent surveillance
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Imaging systems in security, entertainment and machine vision
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Digital photography
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Imaging for robotics and process control imaging
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Computational, adaptive, and compressive imaging in new imaging system demonstrations
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Human interaction with imaging systems and the display of imaging information for overall system performance
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Advanced and applied digital image processing
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Scene segmentation
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Image analysis, compression, reconstruction and quality assessment
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Image enhancement
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Pattern/target recognition
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Image analysis for product inspection, target tracking, motion estimation
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Computational imaging and its applications (e.g., wavefront coding, coded apertures)
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Emerging technologies with impact on imaging systems (e.g., curved focal plane arrays, nanophotonic components, plasmonic devices, graded-index components based on metamaterials)
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Imaging systems for microscopy (e.g., optofluidic microscopy, lensless microscopy)
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Imaging systems and components
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Lens systems; Optical system and lens design
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Visible solids-state image sensors; infrared focal plane arrays
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Read-out and communications electronics
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Imaging system design and characterization
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Methods to overcome challenges related to digital imaging systems
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Limited dynamic range, depth of field
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Spatio-temporal resolution
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Techniques that exploit advantages of digital imaging
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Enhancement of visual appearance
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Automated extraction of important information
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Compression for storage or transmission
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Optimization of data for display