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Applied Optics Feature Announcement

Modern Imaging

Submissions Open: 1 September 2016

Submission Deadline: 15 October 2016

Imaging systems have numerous applications in industrial, military, consumer, and medical settings. Assembling a complete imaging system requires the integration of optics, sensing, image processing, and display rendering. This special issue of Applied Optics is aimed at scientists, engineers, and practitioners interested in understanding how different materials, components, and image processing combine to determine and influence image system performance. Its intent is to bring together the components that define the imaging system and identify the research advances in the areas of use. The design of these optical systems must factor the system as integrated unit and optimize the performance for the application. There are numerous disciplines that are needed for the design and advancement of an optical system. These disciplines include imaging optics, optical detection, computational, adaptive, and compressive imaging, dis plays, and usability of information; they all contribute to defining the system.

This special issue provides participants from OSA's Imaging Congress the opportunity to publish an account of their work as a peer-reviewed archival paper in Applied Optics. This special issue highlights, in particular, work from Mathematics in Imaging, Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging, Imaging Systems and Applications, and 3D Image Acquisition and Display: Technology, Perception and Applications. Whereas meeting participants are particularly encouraged to submit their work, the special issue is open to all contributions in these areas.

All papers need to present original, previously unpublished work, and will be subject to the normal standards and peer-review process of the Journal. To be eligible for publication, the paper needs to add substantial and/or significant new information to the original conference summary. Please see OSA's guidelines on conference papers, found here.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following areas:

  • Imaging system design and components: Optical system and lens design; Imaging system design and characterization; Solid-state image sensors and focal plane arrays
  • Image processing for image capture and display rendering
  • Imaging modalities and systems: Wide field-of-view imaging; Multi- and hyper-spectral imaging; polarimetric imaging; Microscopy and endoscopy; Coherence in imaging
  • Three-dimensional imaging: Systems for data capture, rendering, and display
  • Computational, adaptive, and compressive imaging: Wavefront coding and coded aperture systems; Multi- aperture imaging systems; Plenoptic imaging systems and image processing; New imaging system demonstrations; Joint optical-digital system design and optimization; Applications of computational imaging
  • The mathematics of imaging: Inverse scattering, regularization, constraints, inversion in the multiple scattering regime, shape optimization, blind deconvolution, phaseless imaging, mathematical techniques to enable 3D imaging, imaging through turbulent, random or highly scattering media, design algorithm, biomimetic imaging.
  • Emerging technologies with impact on imaging systems and components: Curved focal plane arrays, Novel detector materials, Liquid lens technology; Plasmonic devices; Graded-index components and metamaterials; Biologically inspired imaging systems and components
  • Methods to overcome challenges related to imaging systems: Limited dynamic range, depth of field, spatiotemporal resolution; Superresolution imaging and resolution enhancement
  • Human vision as it pertains to imaging systems: Image quality and quality metrics; Display technology; Human interaction with imaging systems
  • Applications of military, industrial, medical and consumer imaging: Military imaging in all bands; Applications of target acquisition, intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance (ISR), and persistent surveillance; Imaging systems in security, entertainment and machine vision; Imaging for robotics and process control; Imaging systems for medical applications (e.g., microscopy, endoscopy); Digital photography and video recording

Manuscripts must be prepared according to the usual standards for submission to Applied Optics; see the Information for Contributors in any printed issue or the OSA Style Guide: style guide. Manuscripts must also be uploaded through OSA's electronic submission system: /ao/author/author.cfm. Please specify that the manuscript is for the Modern Imaging feature (choose from the feature issue drop-down menu).

Feature Issue Editors

Peter Catrysse, Stanford University, USA
Kristina Irsch, Johns Hopkins University, USA & Quinze-Vingts National Eye Hospital, France
Bahram Javidi, University of Connecticut, USA
Chrysanthe Preza, University of Memphis, USA
Markus Testorf, Dartmouth University, USA
Zeev Zalevsky, Bar Ilan University, Israel