Sunday, February 13, 2005

Dutch Invent Color Night-Vision


The TNO Research Lab in the Netherlands has developed a revolutionary full color night-vision system for the Dutch military. (From NewScientist.com.)

posted by Paul at 11:19 AM [Permalink]

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Anonymous Canadian Sparky said...

Does anyone out there have the chops to convert this method into a plug-in for Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop? Such a plug-in would convert a black and white photo to full color using data from a color photo of a similar subject.

The technique works by matching a measure of texture, crudely represented as the standard deviation of luminance in a small region around the pixel to be colored, as well as the region's average luminance value. In this way, a smooth sky can be colored blue, for example, while a region of similar luminance but with more detail can be colored green, say, due to it's different texture. See the article in the journal "Displays" for details. The link is given below . . .
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6V01-4DKVJCY-1-1&_cdi=5633&_user=10&_orig=browse&_coverDate=01%2F01%2F2005&_sk=999739998&view=c&wchp=dGLbVtz-zSkWW&md5=0f0ecd2b3706cf0d54907894eb720b44&ie=/sdarticle.pdf

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