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Good Picture 2012
The latest in our series of Good Picture symposia took place on 15 Dec 2012 at the University of Westminster. PDF versions of papers presented are being added when available.

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Recent Blog Items

Good Picture 2013
Maney’s Free Access Fourteen
Call for entries: The World’s Best Scientific Images 2013
Contemporary Healthcare through the Lens of the Photographic Arts
NASA Exhibition Planned

Qualifications

RPS Imaging Scientist Qualifications are available to candidates who can demonstrate a level of achievement in the field. Candidates are required to demonstrate their ability to undertake a programme of work, write reports and papers, work within a team and produce results. Members who acquire an Imaging Scientist Qualification will also receive a Society Distinction.

See the RPS website for more details.

Group Activities

Leaflet about the Group

We have a downloadable leaflet (in PDF format, 3Mb) which gives full details, with illustrations, of our main activities. This leaflet was created for us by students at Westminster University.

Arranging meetings

The ISG is actively involved in the convening of various scientific meetings. In recent years the tendency has been to concentrate on one-day meetings with fairly tightly defined topics but residential conferences are also convened which are intended to provide a forum for imaging science in general. The IS Group also co-sponsors meetings with other organisations with similar interests, examples of recent collaborators are EFSI (European Federation for the Scientific Image), the UK Thermographic Association, the Association for High Speed Photography and Photonics, the Forensic Society and IAG (International Gelatin Association).

Good Picture 2012: Imaging Matters December 2012 1 Day London
Good Picture 2011: Output Revisited December 2011 1 Day London
Digital Futures 2011: Stereoscopic Imaging November 2011 1 Day London
Recent Advances in Medical and Forensic Imaging February 2011 1 Day London
Good Picture 2010 December 2010 1 Day London
IR100 October 2010 2 Days London
Symposium on Colour Imaging September 2010 1 Day London
Good Picture 2009 December 2009 1 Day London
Digital Futures 2009 November 2009 1 Day London
Advances in Medical and Forensic Imaging February 2009 1 Day London
Good Picture 2008 December 2008 1 Day London
Digital Futures 2008 October 2008 1 Day London
Good Picture 2007 December 2007 1 Day London
Digital Futures 2007 October 2007 1 Day London
Medical and Forensic Imaging February 2007 1 Day London
Good Picture 2006 December 2006 1 Day London
Digital Futures 2006 October 2006 1 Day London
Good Picture 2005 December 2005 1 Day London
Digital Futures 2005 October 2005 1 Day Teddington
Advances in Medical & Forensic Imaging February 2005 1 Day London
Good Picture 2004 December 2004 1 Day London
Digital Futures 2004 October 2004 1 Day Teddington
Good Picture? December 2003 1 Day London
Digital Futures 2003 October 2003 1 Day Teddington
Digital Futures 2002 September 2002 1 Day Teddington
Forensic & Medical Imaging November 2001 2 Days Bath
Digital Futures 2001 September 2001 3 Days London
Digital Futures 2000 September 2000 3 Days London
IR Imaging March 2000 3 Days Bath
3D Imaging March 2000 Evening London
Medical & Forensic Imaging April 1999 2 Days Bath
Human and Animal Motion July 1998 1 Day Bath
Gelatin Conference September 1997 4 Days Cambridge

Publishing

The Imaging Science Journal (formerly the Journal of Photographic Science) is published jointly by the RPS and Maney Publishing. The editor of this publication is ex-officio member of the Group Committee and forms a communication channel between the active scientists of the Society and the publishers. A number of members of the IS Group are also members of the Editorial Board of the ISJ and assist with the development of editorial policy as well as the peer review of submitted papers.

Group Forum

The Imaging Science Group oversees a forum for those RPS members who wish to engage in serious scientific and technical discussion about imaging. If you already have a user ID for the RPS forum you should be able to read and post to the forum, which you can find here:-

http://www.rpsforum.org/index.php?/forum/64-imaging-science-group/

If you are not already registered you can still read topics on the forum but not post replies or start new posts. You can apply to register here:-

http://www.rpsforum.org/index.php?app=core&module=global&section=register&do=00

Please take a look and feel free to discuss and raise any scientific or technical topics connected with imaging.

Other Activities

What was at one time (until 1991) an independent Group of the RPS, the Aerospace Imaging Group (originally the Aerial Group), is now a special interest section of the IS Group although it still regularly holds its own meetings under the aegis of the Society.

The IS Group is able to nominate candidates for the various Awards of the Society. In particular, the Group has regularly nominated recipients of the most prestigious of the Awards, The Progress Medal. Mention should also be made of the Selwyn Award, which is sponsored by the Group, and is given each year in recognition of an outstanding contribution to imaging science made by someone under thirty-five years old. The other major Award for which nominations have been successfully made by the Group is the Davies Medal, which is awarded for outstanding contributions to digital imaging science. It has often been the case that the Group has successfully nominated recipients of Honorary Fellowships as well as the Fenton Medal, which is awarded for services to the Society.

With the establishment of the new Science Committee and the Imaging Scientist Qualifications Board, the routine management of the examination of candidates is not part of the remit of the IS Group. However, a number of members of the Group are also members of the Board and therefore contribute to the on-going development of the qualifications scheme.