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Date: Wednesday 30 May 2012, 10:30am to 4:30pm
Location: University of Westminster, Harrow Campus, London HA1 3TP

Chairs: Dr Sophie Triantaphillidou & Liz Allen, School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster.

All About Imaging is a one-day event, aiming to bring professionals who work in imaging science and related areas, or use imaging as part of their profession, to discuss their work, research and development and present case studies to colleagues, students and the general public. The symposium aims to create opportunities for knowledge exchange and collaborations and bring students and younger audiences to appreciate the diversity of areas that require expertise in imaging.

Small workshops and group talks will also be organized during the day, where students and the general public will have the opportunity to meet the speakers.

Invited talks will be given in the following areas:

Registration to the event is free of charge!

A leaflet of the event is available for download (PDF).

Visit www.westminster.ac.uk/all-about-imaging for further details of the symposium and to register on-line.

For more information contact:

Dr Sophie Triantaphillidou, ASIS, FRPS
Imaging Technology Research Group
School of Media, Arts and Design
University of Westminster, Harrow, UK
email: triants@wmin.ac.uk (subject: all about imaging)

Organised jointly by the IOP Applied Physics and Technology Division and DYMAT Association. Co-sponsored by the British Society for Strain Measurement (BSSM), the RPS Imaging Science Group, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Society for Experimental Mechanics, Inc (SEM).

For more information visit the Institute of Physics website.

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The award is for “support of academic research and training the next generation of scientists studying the permanence of imaging materials; his work on developing international standards on the permanence and preservation of digital printing materials; his significant contributions to the technical literature; and his long history of volunteer work for the Society for Imaging Science and Technology, the Royal Photographic Society, and the Institute of Physics Printing and Graphics Science Group.”

Well done Alan. We’re all very proud of you.

An interesting example of these is the HP OMAS system.[i] This is a custom made vision system incorporating a ring illuminator, telecentric lens and an image sensor. It correlates successive images of the back of the natural variations in the media to claim accuracy of better than 0.4µm/mm enabling banding free prints at 1200 dpi resolution.

My main reason was to look at some printed electronics stuff. Here are some of the photovoltaic highlights.

Met with Eifion Jewell and attended his presentation. I know Eifion from his days at the Welsh Centre for Printing and Coating at Swansea University. He recently left for a spin out called the SPECIFIC project. Still based in Swansea they are working with Tata to turn a building into a power station. They envision using Photovoltaic and solar thermal together with energy storage technology. They aim to stay away from vacuum to get the cost/ sqm down. They wish to use roll to roll liquid coating including print. They state that they are interested only in solutions that are realistic in manufacture.

Their innovation space is currently a series of labs and they will be using the university print facilities till mid 2012. They have a realistic outlook and seem to have sustainable funding.

Kieran Reynolds prints photovoltaics using organic semiconductors at Eight19, a spin out from Cambridge University. Target market is off grid solar for lighting and cell phone charging in emerging markets. He described their IndiGo product trial. This can best be described as a pay-as-you-go electricity supply, administered through a mobile phone system.

Met with Eifion Jewell and attended his presentation. I know Eifion from his days at the Welsh Centre for Printing and Coating at Swansea University. He recently left for a spin out called the SPECIFIC project. Still based in Swansea they are working with Tata . . . → Read More: Advanced Engineering UK – High speed imaging and photovoltaics]]> Had a day out yesterday at the Advanced Engineering show at the NEC. Lots of high speed imaging on show here!

My main reason was to look at some printed electronics stuff. Here are some of the photovoltaic highlights.

Met with Eifion Jewell and attended his presentation. I know Eifion from his days at the Welsh Centre for Printing and Coating at Swansea University. He recently left for a spin out called the SPECIFIC project. Still based in Swansea they are working with Tata to turn a building into a power station. They envision using Photovoltaic and solar thermal together with energy storage technology. They aim to stay away from vacuum to get the cost/ sqm down. They wish to use roll to roll liquid coating including print. They state that they are interested only in solutions that are realistic in manufacture.

Their innovation space is currently a series of labs and they will be using the university print facilities till mid 2012. They have a realistic outlook and seem to have sustainable funding.

Kieran Reynolds prints photovoltaics using organic semiconductors at Eight19, a spin out from Cambridge University. Target market is off grid solar for lighting and cell phone charging in emerging markets. He described their IndiGo product trial. This can best be described as a pay-as-you-go electricity supply, administered through a mobile phone system.

Met with Eifion Jewell and attended his presentation. I know Eifion from his days at the Welsh Centre for Printing and Coating at Swansea University. He recently left for a spin out called the SPECIFIC project. Still based in Swansea they are working with Tata to turn a building into a power station. They envision using Photovoltaic and solar thermal together with energy storage technology. They aim to stay away from vacuum to get the cost/ sqm down. They wish to use roll to roll liquid coating including print. They state that they are interested only in solutions that are realistic in manufacture.

Kieran Reynolds prints photovoltaics using organic semiconductors at Eight19, a spin out from Cambridge University. Target market is off grid solar for lighting and cell phone charging in emerging markets. He described their IndiGo product trial. This can best be described as a pay-as-you-go electricity supply, administered through a mobile phone system.

Prof. Julie Harris presented a paper entitled “Why do we have difficulty with depth perception in complex environments?”. The presentation started with a summary of binocular disparity, moving on to illustrate with  images how perceived image depth is can vary as some function of image content. A description of the visual cortex of the brain followed leading to the conclusion that this area of the brain appears to do an image processing cross correlation between left and right eye to extract depth cues. This cross correlation appears to be done on different scales, leading to the observation that if fine scale regions have large depth disparities these will not be highly visible – the neurones visualising small scales only process small depth disparities.

The second presentation from Dhanraj  Vishwanath was entitled “Explaining the phenomenal experience of stereopsis”. Dhanraj  defined stereopsis as the perceptual by-product of binocular depth perception. One theory is that this comes from 2 potential routes, either the simultaneous apprehension of 2 different aspects of an object (binocular vision) or sequential apprehension of 2 or more aspects of an object (motion parallax). However, this work seems to illustrate that stereopis has more to do with the perceived scale of the objects.