Test results from an imager for scenes with high dynamic range and low light levels

Author(s):  
D. P. Osterman ◽  
W. Good ◽  
R. Philbrick ◽  
L. Schneider ◽  
P. Johnson ◽  
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Author(s):  
Param Hanji ◽  
Muhammad Z. Alam ◽  
Nicola Giuliani ◽  
Hu Chen ◽  
Rafał K. Mantiuk

Benchmark datasets used for testing computer vision (CV) methods often contain little variation in illumination. The methods that perform well on these datasets have been observed to fail under challenging illumination conditions encountered in the real world, in particular, when the dynamic range of a scene is high. The authors present a new dataset for evaluating CV methods in challenging illumination conditions such as low light, high dynamic range, and glare. The main feature of the dataset is that each scene has been captured in all the adversarial illuminations. Moreover, each scene includes an additional reference condition with uniform illumination, which can be used to automatically generate labels for the tested CV methods. We demonstrate the usefulness of the dataset in a preliminary study by evaluating the performance of popular face detection, optical flow, and object detection methods under adversarial illumination conditions. We further assess whether the performance of these applications can be improved if a different transfer function is used.


2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel W. Hasinoff ◽  
Dillon Sharlet ◽  
Ryan Geiss ◽  
Andrew Adams ◽  
Jonathan T. Barron ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Toshihiko Shiraishi ◽  
Shuto Nagamatsu ◽  
Hirotaka Misaki

In this study, the dynamic range and dispersion stability of a shear-type magnetorheological (MR) grease damper were experimentally investigated as important characteristics affecting the performance of semi-active vibration suppression. Furthermore, the damper was applied to the semi-active vibration suppression of a small single-degree-of-freedom model structure subjected to seismic excitation. The performance test results of the damper indicated that it has a dynamic range of 157 times, which is much higher than that of conventional MR dampers. Also, because of the high dispersion stability of MR grease, the results showed that its performance can be kept for 9 days longer in comparison with a similar damper using MR fluid. Moreover, the structural vibration suppression test results demonstrated that the damper can suppress vibration response over a wide frequency range by applying skyhook-based control, which can take full advantage of the damper’s high dynamic range.


2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe La Veigne ◽  
Todd Szarlan ◽  
Nate Radtke

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