Research of Measuring High Visibility at Night Based on Dual Light Sources Digital Image

2013 ◽  
Vol 718-720 ◽  
pp. 2270-2275
Author(s):  
Pang Da Dai ◽  
Yu Jun Zhang ◽  
Chang Hua Lu

Research on measuring night visibility using digital images mainly focused on low visibility conditions nowadays. Also, the long term observation leads to fluctuations of the single light source, which would undermine the measuring range and precision. In this context, this paper presents the dual light sources measurement method to eliminate the fluctuations of single source and to achieve both high measuring range and precision at night conditions. The source of visibility measuring error is firstly formulated through an error analysis. Then we propose a dual light sources framework that yields two identical beams to measure the visibility, which is advantageous over the single light source method and capable of measuring high visibility. In the experiments, the stability of the dual light sources is firstly tested by a 72-hour running. The average luminance ration of dual light sources is 0.9932 and the average relative error is 0.04%. The relative error of dual light sources luminance ration is only 0.2% when the fluctuations of single source is as high as 2.28%. Then the dual light sources is applied in the digital image night visibility measuring system to evaluate its validity. The result shows that the dual light sources method is capable of measuring the range of 390 times of baseline (40m baseline) with the error less than 15%, which fully meets the meteorological demands.

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Roy ◽  
S. Mitra ◽  
R. Agrawal

AbstractManipulation in image has been in practice since centuries. These manipulated images are intended to alter facts — facts of ethics, morality, politics, sex, celebrity or chaos. Image forensic science is used to detect these manipulations in a digital image. There are several standard ways to analyze an image for manipulation. Each one has some limitation. Also very rarely any method tried to capitalize on the way image was taken by the camera. We propose a new method that is based on light and its shade as light and shade are the fundamental input resources that may carry all the information of the image. The proposed method measures the direction of light source and uses the light based technique for identification of any intentional partial manipulation in the said digital image. The method is tested for known manipulated images to correctly identify the light sources. The light source of an image is measured in terms of angle. The experimental results show the robustness of the methodology.


2019 ◽  
pp. 101-107
Author(s):  
Sergei A. Stakharny

This article is a review of the new light source – organic LEDs having prospects of application in general and special lighting systems. The article describes physical principles of operation of organic LEDs, their advantages and principal differences from conventional non-organic LEDs and other light sources. Also the article devoted to contemporary achievements and prospects of development of this field in the spheres of both general and museum lighting as well as other spheres where properties of organic LEDs as high-quality light sources may be extremely useful.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 4035
Author(s):  
Jinsheon Kim ◽  
Jeungmo Kang ◽  
Woojin Jang

In the case of light-emitting diode (LED) seaport luminaires, they should be designed in consideration of glare, average illuminance, and overall uniformity. Although it is possible to implement light distribution through auxiliary devices such as reflectors, it means increasing the weight and size of the luminaire, which reduces the feasibility. Considering the special environment of seaport luminaires, which are installed at a height of 30 m or more, it is necessary to reduce the weight of the device, facilitate replacement, and secure a light source with a long life. In this paper, an optimized lens design was investigated to provide uniform light distribution to meet the requirement in the seaport lighting application. Four types of lens were designed and fabricated to verify the uniform light distribution requirement for the seaport lighting application. Using numerical analysis, we optimized the lens that provides the required minimum overall uniformity for the seaport lighting application. A theoretical analysis for the heatsink structure and shape were conducted to reduce the heat from the high-power LED light sources up to 250 W. As a result of these analyses on the heat dissipation characteristics of the high-power LED light source used in the LED seaport luminaire, the heatsink with hexagonal-shape fins shows the best heat dissipation effect. Finally, a prototype LED seaport luminaire with an optimized lens and heat sink was fabricated and tested in a real seaport environment. The light distribution characteristics of this prototype LED seaport luminaire were compared with a commercial high-pressure sodium luminaire and metal halide luminaire.


2011 ◽  
Vol 214 ◽  
pp. 133-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xu Dong Shi ◽  
Shou Wen Shi ◽  
Lu Zhang ◽  
Jian Li Li

Airport runway friction coefficient is an important parameter to evaluate the quality of runway which is usually measured by runway friction coefficient measuring vehicle. In order to reduce the airport runway friction coefficient measuring error which comes from runway vibration caused by road roughness and vehicle its own structural characteristics, an impedance diagram is used to model the suspending system and measuring system of the measuring vehicle. The power spectral density of pavement and inverse discrete Fourier transformation are introduced to model runway surface roughness as excitation input. The rationality of the stimulating established model is validated by comparing with an airport runway surface roughness measurement data. Runway friction coefficient measuring vehicle′s measuring error can be reduced and the measurement accuracy can be improved by using the impedance diagram modeling method.


2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Chalmers ◽  
Snjezana Soltic

This paper is concerned with designing light source spectra for optimum luminous efficacy and colour rendering. We demonstrate that it is possible to design light sources that can provide both good colour rendering and high luminous efficacy by combining the outputs of a number of narrowband spectral constituents. Also, the achievable results depend on the numbers and wavelengths of the different spectral bands utilized in the mixture. Practical realization of these concepts has been demonstrated in this pilot study which combines a number of simulations with tests using real LEDs (light emitting diodes). Such sources are capable of providing highly efficient lighting systems with good energy conservation potential. Further research is underway to investigate the practicalities of our proposals in relation to large-scale light source production.


2010 ◽  
Vol 146-147 ◽  
pp. 460-465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheng Hui Guo ◽  
Dong Bo Li ◽  
Li Jun Liu ◽  
Jin Hui Peng ◽  
Li Bo Zhang ◽  
...  

The stability is one most important product performance index, which can directly determine the quality of the partially stabilized zirconia (PSZ), and the stability of PSZ is always fluctuating in the commercial process, so how to accurately, quickly and easily predict the stability of PSZ in the preparation process is very important. In the present paper, a new mathematical model to predict the stability of PSZ was proposed, based on statistical theory (SLT) and support vector machine (SVM) theory, which relates the stability of PSZ and the influence factors, such as the holding temperature, rising rate of temperature, holding time, decreasing rate of temperature and hardening temperature. Typical data collected from commercial process were collected for the training samples and test samples. Then testing and analyzing was done. The results showed that the max relative error was 1.80%, the least relative error was 0%, and the average relative error was 0.58%. It is accurate and reliable to predict the stability of PSZ by SVM model. Besides, multiple influence factors can be comprehensively considered in the SVM model, thus a new highly effective method for predicting the stability of PSZ is provided for commercial application.


Author(s):  
Wenxuan Jia ◽  
Yuen-Shan Leung ◽  
Huachao Mao ◽  
Han Xu ◽  
Chi Zhou ◽  
...  

Abstract Microscale surface structures are commonly found on macroscale bodies of natural creatures for their unique functions. However, it is difficult to fabricate such multi-scale geometry with conventional stereolithography processes that rely on either laser or digital micromirror device (DMD). More specifically, the DMD-based mask projection method displays the image of a cross-section of the part on the resin to fabricate the entire layer efficiently; however, its display resolution is limited by the building area. In comparison, the laser-based vector scanning method builds smooth features using a focused laser beam with desired beam-width resolution; however, it has less throughput for its sequential nature. In this paper, we studied the hybrid-light-source stereolithography process that integrates both optical light sources to facilitate the fabrication of macro-objects with microscale surface structures (called micro-textures in the paper). The hardware system uses a novel calibration approach that ensures pixel-level dimensional accuracy across the two light sources. The software system enables designing the distribution and density of specific microscale textures on a macro-object by generating projection images and laser toolpaths for the two integrated light sources. Several test cases were fabricated to demonstrate the capability of the developed process. A large fabrication area (76.8 mm × 80.0 mm) with 50 μm micro-features can be achieved with a high throughput.


2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 376-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Rauch ◽  
S. Schmidt ◽  
I. W. C. E. Arends ◽  
K. Oppelt ◽  
S. Kara ◽  
...  

The photocatalytic oxidation of NADH using a flavin photocatalyst and a simple blue LED light source is reported.


2014 ◽  
Vol 915-916 ◽  
pp. 1234-1237
Author(s):  
Jun Jun Li ◽  
Xin Wei Yang ◽  
Wen Guang Shi

The surface displacement of soil mass is an important standard for safety in civil engineering. In this paper, white light digital image analysis in frequency domain is introduced tomeasure surface displacement of soil mass. This method has the characteristics of whole-field, non-contact measurement and the simple measuring system and can obtain displacements by frequency domination correlation arithmetic. Surface displacements of soil mass are obtained by white light digital image analysis in frequency domain. Comparing the experimental results and the theoretical values, the little error exists and the usefulness of this method is certified.


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