The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate "Andrey
Nikolov" presents:
Seeing
in the Dark:
Night Vision Systems and Applications
public lecture by Dr Alexander Toet - Senior Researcher,
TNO Defense, Safety and Security, The Netherlands
Night vision devices provide the ability to see and manoeuvre
during periods of reduced visibility. Currently two types
of night vision devices are in use: image intensifiers or
night vision goggles (NVG's) and thermal cameras. Because
of their complementary nature, the fusion of NVG and thermal
imagery may significantly extend the range of conditions in
which the user can operate. Previously we have shown that
false color rendering of fused multiband nighttime imagery
can significantly improve observer performance and reaction
times in tasks that involve scene segmentation and classification,
like surveillance and navigation tasks. TNO recently developed
a color mapping that produces night vision imagery with a
natural appearance and with colors that are invariant for
changes in the environmental conditions. In this presentation
I will present the new color mapping procedures, and discuss
the results of some preliminary observer experiments.
The visit of Dr. Alexander Toet is part of The Red House’s
Digital Spaces programme (www.digitalspaces.info).
The web site of Digital Spaces has been nominated as the best
e-Content example from Bulgaria for the (World Summit Award
Global Contest in the e-Inclusion category.
With the general sponsorship of VIVATEL and the support of
Nemetschek-Bulgaria and Sirma Group and with the media partnership
of Digital World Magazine, Dnevnik Daily and Kapital Weekly.
More informaion for the lecturer:
Alexander Toet received his PhD in physics
from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands in 1987.
He has worked on visual spatial localization (hyperacuity)
and image processing. He is currently a senior researcher
at TNO Defense, Safety and Security where he investigates
image fusion, image quality, computational models of human
visual search and detection, and the quantification of visual
target distinctness. He is a member of IEEE.
Read more for World Summit Award Global Contest:
www.wsabg.org and www.wsis-award.org
Read more for „Digital Spaces”: http://www.ablen.com/hosting/digitalspaces/index.html
čëč www.digitalspaces.info
March 31 (Monday), 7.00
p.m.
Red hall
With translation into Bulgarian.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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