GOOD PICTURE 2024 - ELEMENTS OF IMAGING
Following the success of our previous nineteen Good Picture Symposia, the Imaging Science Group of the Royal Photographic Society organised another in its series of tutorial seminars, open to all, on selected technical aspects of Imaging. The aim of these lectures and discussions was to provide imaging practitioners, keen amateurs and students with insights into the broad field of Imaging in all its aspects and to provide some tools and guidelines for improving output.
Location: University of Westminster, Regent Street, London
Date: Saturday 7th December 2024, 10am – 4pm
Programme
Imaging Technologies Within Driverless Cars - The Technology Being Driven to a Street Near You
Prof Toby Breckon, Department of Computer Science, Durham University
It appears autonomous vehicles (driverless cars) may become one of the most significant changes to the way we travel in over 100 years. Central to this fast-moving technological development is the use of imaging technologies – how can vehicles 'see' the world around them? and image understanding – how can vehicles understand imagery of the world around them? Advances in this area present many opportunities and implications for our daily lives. This talk will explore current trends in on-vehicle sensing, outline the underlying scientific advances that underpin driverless car technology and also some research challenges that remain to be addressed including research work at Durham on automotive visual sensing, More broadly, the talk will discuss wider technological developments in the field and the potential impacts of future driverless vehicles appearing on our roads and beyond.
Event - Based Imaging
Dr Özgün Özer, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Manchester
Event – based imaging is a novel approach to imaging that focuses on capturing the change rather than the objects themselves. Instead of collecting light with fixed intervals, each pixel registers the change in the illumination. In this sense, is represents a different property of human vision and opens new possibilities for artists and researchers.
Godfrey Hounsfield and the EMI Scanner
Prof Adrian Thomas FBIR, Honorary Historian, The British Institute of Radiology
Sir Godfrey Hounsfield FRS was a remarkable and interesting man. As an engineer he was involved in the development of early computing, and he went on to lead a team that developed the CT/EMI scanner. The CT scanner marked a paradigm shift and it has been said that until Hounsfield’s discovery X-ray photography had not fundamentally advanced since Röntgen X-rayed his wife’s hand in his laboratory in Würzburg in 1895. At a stroke medical imaging was transformed.
Art, Artefact and Arteriograms
Dr Michael Jackson, NHS Lothian, British Society for the History of Radiology
In the era of deepfakes, the ability of images (digital or otherwise) to mislead and misrepresent is well recognised. The scientific discipline of medical imaging might be viewed as exempt from such concerns, but while intentional deception may be absent, both the construction and interpretation of medical images are more subjective than one would suppose. Drawing on varied examples from the history of art alongside radiology examinations, this talk will examine the choices made in producing an image and their implications.
DIY Pinhole Testing Equipment for Cameras
Dr Alan Hodgson ASIS FRPS, Alan Hodgson Consulting Ltd
Illuminated pinholes make great test objects for camera systems. Building on 2 past topics shown at Good Picture this presentation will show you how to make and use this yourself and generate some interesting images into the bargain.