Leading players in the 3DTV industry will converging on Aberdeen next month for a conference focusing on use of such technologies in the oil and gas and renewables industries.
The 3DTV Conference: Vision Beyond Depth event has been organised by Aberdeen University, Robert Gordon University, and industry representatives in collaboration with Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre (AECC).
It is the first time the event has been held in the UK.
It will look at how innovations born in 3DTV broadcasting are migrating into practical applications for the subsea, offshore, renewable energy, and medical sectors, on October 7-8 at the AECC.
Capturing real life in 3D, processing the captured data for storage and transmission, and displaying the result for creating 3D visual sensation are the main functional components of a 3DTV system.
The development and seamless integration of each element are challenging tasks to deliver full-scale, realistic 3D imagery to the end user.
This technical conference will see some of the world’s leading players in 3D-visioning technology enlighten delegates on the latest developments in the sector.
Topics from subsea vision, to building a holographic television system, to applications in medical imagery will be presented.
Keynote speakers at the conference will include Dr Douglas Brown, inventor, researcher, and historian of 3D imaging systems, who will provide an insight into the early 3DTV work of John Logie Baird.
In addition an interactive panel discussion of industrialists and academics will enter into debate with delegates the way forward for 3D technologies and its future applications.
The conference is chaired by Professor John Watson from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
The conference is also supported by Aberdeen City Council, Kongsberg, Bowtech Products Limited, The University of Aberdeen, VisitAberdeen and VisitScotland.
Technical co-sponsors include IEEE Societies for Signal Processing (SPS) and Oceanic Engineering Society (OES). Society supporters include Society for Underwater Technology (SUT) and the European Optical Society (EOS).
Details of registration and full programme can be found at: www.3dtv-con.org
The Three-Dimensions of John Logie Baird - "Father of 3DTV"
Dr Douglas Brown, 3D TV systems inventor, television technology historian, and author of several books on John Logie Baird will give the opening Keynote Talk at 3DTV-CONF at AECC on October 7.
A 3DTV-Conference could not be more appropriate in the year that marks the 125th year of the birth of the Scottish father of colour and 3DTV, John Logie Baird (1888-1946). Despite demonstrating 600-line colour television as early as 1940, Britain remained with 405-line monochrome until 1967. In 1941 Baird patented and demonstrated 3DTV with polarised viewing glasses showing also a glasses-free system, closely related to the modern active shutter concepts currently adopted.
While these facts are little known, even less has been reported on Baird’s invention of the world’s first volumetric or ‘holographic’ (meaning the whole image) three-dimensional television system.
This system was not stereoscopic and required no glasses, but reproduced multi-viewpoint images of the scenes viewed as disembodied 3D ‘objects’ constructed from light.
The patent was accepted and published by the British Patent Office while Baird was seriously ill in 1945. On 14 June 1946, only one week after the resumption of television by the BBC, Baird died with many of his ideas neither properly aired nor fully appreciated until rediscovered in recent years.
3-Dimensional Subsea Vision: Gimmick or Essential Tool?
Mike Winstanley, Director of Bowtech Products, which provide single housing 3D TV cameras for deep submergence, will be showing actual footage of the 3D systems in commercial ROV inspection around offshore installations and also explaining the real benefits they can provide to operators.
Other papers include:
How to build a holographic 3DTV system – Dr Michael Bove Jr, Massachusetts Inst of Technology, USA
Single- and multi-user head tracked glasses-free 3D displays – Phil Surman, De Montfort Univ., UK
3D Applications of Medical Imaging - Prof Andreas Melzer, Northern Research Partnership, UK
Development of fixed and mobile hybrid 3DTV for next generation terrestrial DTV – Dr Soon-Hoong Kim: ETRI, South Korea
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