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Advancing the Science and Technology of Light

Imaging Systems and Applications (IS)

24 June - 28 June 2012, Monterey Plaza Hotel, Monterey, California, United States



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Congress Joint Plenary Speakers

  • Al Bovik, Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA
    Image Quality Assessment: How Blind is Blind?
  • Joseph Goodman, Stanford Univ., USA
    Assessing a New Imaging Modality
  • Bruce Guenther, NOAA-JPSS & University of Maryland of Baltimore County, USA
    Survey of Applications for Ocean Color and Imagery from EOS-MODIS and early results from NPP-VIIRS
  • Henry Helvajian, The Aerospace Corp., USA
    Small Satellites: The Desire for a Mass Producible, Mass Customizable Nanosatellite
  • OSA Corporate Associates: Executive Speaker Series presents Michael Silver, CEO, American Elements, USA

Assembling a complete imaging system requires the integration of optics, sensing, image processing and display rendering. The scope of this topical meeting encompasses all aspects of modern digital imaging systems. In particular, its aim is to highlight how different materials, components, and processing combine to determine imaging system performance. The meeting brings together scientists and engineers working on military, industrial, medical, and consumer imaging. Invited speakers from the military, academic, and commercial imaging sectors will provide interesting presentations on the current status and future of imaging in their organizations. Academic and industry researchers working on imaging systems, as well as scientists and engineers working on military imaging applications are invited to submit papers.

Topics Categories

Imaging System Design and Components

    • Optical system and lens design
    • Imaging system design and characterization
    • Solid-state image sensors and focal plane arrays (visible and infrared)
    • Read-out and communications electronics

Imaging Modalities and Systems

    • Wide field-of-view imaging
    • Multi/hyper-spectral and polarimetric imaging
    • Microscopy and endoscopy (e.g.,  optofluidic and lensless microscopy)
    • Coherence in imaging
    • Millimeter-wave imaging and LADAR systems

Computational, Adaptive, and Compressive Imaging

    • Wavefront coding and coded aperture systems
    • Multi-aperture imaging systems
    • Plenoptic imaging systems and image processing
    • New imaging system demonstrations
    • Applications of computational imaging

Emerging Technologies with Impact on Imaging Systems and Components

    • Curved focal plane arrays
    • Liquid lens technology
    • Plasmonic devices, graded-index components, and metamaterials
    • Biologically-inspired imaging systems and components (e.g., image sensors)

Methods to Overcome Challenges Related to Digital Imaging Systems

    • Limited dynamic range, depth of field, spatiotemporal resolution
    • Joint optical-digital system design and optimization

Use of Digital Imaging for Tomographic, Volumetric, Time-, and Super-resolved Information Extraction

Super-resolution Imaging and Resolution Enhancement

Human Vision as it Pertains to Imaging Systems

    • Image quality
    • Display technology
    • Human interaction with imaging systems

Advanced and Applied Digital Image Processing

    • Scene segmentation, automated information extraction, target recognition
    • Image analysis, compression, reconstruction and quality assessment
    • Image enhancement, optimization (for display), and compression (for storage or transmission)
    • Image analysis for visual and industrial/military applications such as manufactured product inspection, target tracking and motion estimation

Applications of Military, Industrial, Medical and Consumer Imaging

    • Military imaging in all bands; Applications of target acquisition, intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance (ISR), and persistent surveillance
    • Imaging systems in security, entertainment and machine vision; Imaging for robotics and process control
    • Imaging systems for medical applications (e.g. microscopy, endoscopy)
    • Digital photography

General Chairs

Peter Catrysse, Stanford Univ., USA
John T. Sheridan, Univ. College Dublin, Ireland

Program Chairs

Francisco Imai, Canon USA, Inc., USA
Dale Linne von Berg, NRL, USA

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  • Early Registration Deadline 30 May 2012