Optical camouflage is a type of active camouflage that can render the wearer invisible. It works by displaying an image of the scene behind the wearer on the front surfaces, so that viewers see through the wearer. Scientists have developed a system using a retro-reflective jacket, camera, computer, and projector that captures and displays the background scene, making the wearer seem invisible by merging them with the background scene. While not as simple as fiction's invisibility cloaks, optical camouflage technology aims to render invisibility using cameras, computers, and projectors to blend the wearer into their surroundings.
Optical camouflage is a type of active camouflage that can render the wearer invisible. It works by displaying an image of the scene behind the wearer on the front surfaces, so that viewers see through the wearer. Scientists have developed a system using a retro-reflective jacket, camera, computer, and projector that captures and displays the background scene, making the wearer seem invisible by merging them with the background scene. While not as simple as fiction's invisibility cloaks, optical camouflage technology aims to render invisibility using cameras, computers, and projectors to blend the wearer into their surroundings.
Optical camouflage is a type of active camouflage that can render the wearer invisible. It works by displaying an image of the scene behind the wearer on the front surfaces, so that viewers see through the wearer. Scientists have developed a system using a retro-reflective jacket, camera, computer, and projector that captures and displays the background scene, making the wearer seem invisible by merging them with the background scene. While not as simple as fiction's invisibility cloaks, optical camouflage technology aims to render invisibility using cameras, computers, and projectors to blend the wearer into their surroundings.
Optical camouflage is a type of active camouflage that can render the wearer invisible. It works by displaying an image of the scene behind the wearer on the front surfaces, so that viewers see through the wearer. Scientists have developed a system using a retro-reflective jacket, camera, computer, and projector that captures and displays the background scene, making the wearer seem invisible by merging them with the background scene. While not as simple as fiction's invisibility cloaks, optical camouflage technology aims to render invisibility using cameras, computers, and projectors to blend the wearer into their surroundings.
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ARYA INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY
Synopsis on “Optical Camouflage”
Name:- Arun Kumar Soni
Email_id:- soni9999arun9999@gmail.com Roll_no:- 07EAICS014 Optical camouflage is a kind of active camouflage which completely envelopes the wearer. It displays an image of the scene on the side opposite the viewer on it, so that the viewer can "see through" the wearer, rendering the wearer invisible. The idea is relatively straightforward: to create the illusion of invisibility by covering an object with something that projects the scene directly behind that object. If you project background image onto the masked object, you can observe the masked object just as if it were virtually transparent. Optical camouflage can be applied for a real scene. In the case of a real scene, a photograph of the scene is taken from the operator’s viewpoint, and this photograph is projected to exactly the same place as the original. Actually, applying HMP-based optical camouflage to a real scene requires image-based rendering techniques. While new high-performance, light-transmitting materials such as aerogel and light- transmitting concrete compel us to question the nature of solidity, a new technology developed by University of Tokyo seeks to make matter disappear altogether. Scientists at Tachi Laboratory have developed Optical Camouflage, which utilizes a collection of devices working in concert to render a subject invisible. Although more encumbering and complicated than Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak, this system has essentially the same goal, rendering invisibility by slipping beneath the shining, silvery cloth. Optical Camouflage requires the use of clothing – in this case, a hooded jacket – made with a retro-reflective material, which is comprised by thousands of small beads that reflect light precisely according to the angle of incidence. A digital video camera placed behind the person wearing the cloak captures the scene that the individual would otherwise obstruct, and sends data to a computer for processing. A sophisticated program calculates the appropriate distance and viewing angle, and then transmits scene via projector using a combiner, or a half silvered mirror with an optical hole, which allows a witness to perceive a realistic merger of the projected scene with the background – thus rendering the cloak-wearer invisible.