The 27th of September, 2013, the SOI research unit will be at the Researchers' Night 2013, held in the Muse Trento museum.
The following demos and installations will be shown:
Come, meet and have fun with us!
Two SOI papers have been accepted at the 2013 European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), to be held on September 16-20 in Bucharest, Romania. Both papers will be presented at the CMOS Image Sensors Session (B6L-F) on Wednesday, September 18:
NETCARITY (A Networked Multisensor System for elderly people: health care, safety and security in home environment) if a project funded under EC IST FP6 as an Integrated Project, researching and testing technologies which will help older people to improve their wellbeing, independence, safety and health at home.
The development of circuits for pulsed time-of-flight (TOF) laser range finders has been one of the main areas of research at the Electronics Laboratory of University of Oulu already over 30 years. Head of the laboratory and the group is professor Juha Kostamovaara. There are many applications for pulsed TOF laser radars such as the positioning of tools and vehicles, the profiling and scanning of surfaces, anti-collision radars and traffic perception, for example.
Time-Of-Flight (TOF) measuring technique relies on the measurement of the round-trip time needed by a light pulse to travel from the measurement system to a target and back again, which has been actively investigated by the SOI research unit since 2002, exploring a number of different techniques.
The first developments in 3D Vision at SOI were done in the framework of the Opto3D project since year 2000, with the development of an intelligent electro-optical sensor for driving scenarios detection and object recognition [1]. Since then, SOI investigated and developed a number of different operating principles for indirect time-of-flight imaging using CMOS technologies, from the simulation and development of the sensing device, to the integrated circuit and 3D camera system.
