Optical Sensors (Sensors)
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Optical Sensors (Sensors)
Optical Sensors (Sensors) is focused on topics that are considered timely due to a surge in literature or notoriety.
The Sensors meeting addresses all aspects of optical sensors from source and detection technologies, sensor configurations and processing approaches to applications and integration in innovative measurement platforms, such as medical/clinical diagnostics, unmanned aerial systems, autonomous vehicles, satellite constellations and industrial robots. It will also include instrumentation and applications of Fourier transform spectroscopy to astronomy and astrophysics, atmospheric science and remote sensing, laboratory spectroscopy, analytical chemistry, bio-medicine and a variety of industrial applications.
The presented work will exceptionally include sessions on environment monitoring, from point sources to global scales, and hyperspectral and multispectral instrumentation, data analysis, algorithm development and technology demonstrations for imaging and sounding of the environment. Presenters are encouraged to share their experiences relating to optical fiber, laser-based, biological, chemical and terahertz sensors.
If you are looking to submit your papers for consideration by the Sensors committee, please consider submitting to the following referenced topics in the full list of topic categories and identify Sensors as your topical of choice:
1. New technologies and phenomena in sensing, image capture and displays
1.2. Sensor development
1.3. Terahertz- and mm-wave-based sensing
1.4. Mid-infrared sensing and imaging
1.5. Frequency combs
1.8. Quantum-enhanced sensing and imaging
2. System architecture and co-design for sensing, imaging and displays
2.1. Chemical sensing
2.7. Wavefront sensors and correctors
2.8. Spectroscopy and spectral imaging
2.9. Tomography
3. Image and signal processing and computational techniques
3.1. Image processing for acquisition and display systems
3.2. Deep learning and artificial intelligence for image acquisition and display systems
4. Human and machine vision and perception
4.3. Electronic nose and tactile sensors
5. Industrial, security, agriphotonic and environmental applications
5.1. Industrial and agriphotonic process control and monitoring
5.2. Leak detection
5.3 Miniaturization, ruggedization and harsh environments
5.4 Sensing for energy and propulsion
5.5. Diagnostics for nuclear energy reactors
5.6 Aerosol and microplastic detection
5.9 Metrology
5.10 Terrestrial, aquatic, cryospheric and atmospheric applications of remote sensing
6. Astronomy, space and remote imaging applications
6.1. Advances in astronomical imaging
6.2. Space-based telescopes and imaging
6.5. Radiation hardened sensing
7. Biomedical applications
7.1. Optical and fiber sensors for biomedicine
7.2. Imaging technologies for health care
7.5. Lab on a chip, biological and chemical sensing
7.6. Point-of-care sensing applications
7.7. Microscopy and endoscopy
8. Guidance, navigation and autonomy applications
8.1. Gyroscopes and other inertial sensors
8.2. LIDAR and vision for autonomy
8.4. Navigation systems
Chairs
Ali Masoudi
University of Southampton, United Kingdom,
General Chair
Jennifer Morales
US Army Research Laboratory, United States,
Program Chair
Paul Pellegrino
US Army Research Laboratory, United States,
Program Chair
Program Committee
Ali Masoudi, University of Southampton, UK, General Chair
Paul Pellegrino, US Army Research Laboratory, USA, Program Chair
Jennifer M. Morales, DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, USA, Program Chair
Optical Biological and Chemical Sensors
Claudio Oton, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy, Subcommittee Chair
Koji Masuda, University of Exeter, UK
Sachin Srivastava, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India
Nikita Toropov, University of Southampton, UK
Sharon Weiss, Vanderbilt University, USA
Stephen Warren-Smith, Adelaide University, Australia
Optical Fiber Sensors
Aldo Minardo, Università della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy, Subcommittee Chair
Xin Lu, BAM, Germany
Marcelo Soto, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile
Sonia Martín López, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain
Maria Carmen Vazquez Garcia, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
Terahertz Sensors
Jess Smith, National Physical Laboratory, UK, Subcommittee Chair
Mira Naftaly, National Physical Laboratory , UK
Laser Based Sensors
Yoonchan Jeong, Seoul National University, South Korea, Subcommittee Chair
Peter Dragic, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Andrea Fiore, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Netherlands
Christian Grillet, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France
Peter Horak, ORC, Univ. of Southampton, UK
Kwang Jo Lee, Kyung Hee Univ. Republic of Korea
