ARYA INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY

Synopsis
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“Optical Camouflage”

Name:- Arun Kumar Soni

Email_id:- soni9999arun9999@gmail.com
Roll_no:- 07EAICS014
Optical camouflage is a kind of active camouflage which completely envelopes the wearer.
It displays an image of the scene on the side opposite the viewer on it, so that the viewer can
"see through" the wearer, rendering the wearer invisible. The idea is relatively
straightforward: to create the illusion of invisibility by covering an object with something
that projects the scene directly behind that object. If you project background image onto the
masked object, you can observe the masked object just as if it were virtually transparent.
Optical camouflage can be applied for a real scene. In the case of a real scene, a photograph
of the scene is taken from the operator’s viewpoint, and this photograph is projected to
exactly the same place as the original. Actually, applying HMP-based optical camouflage to
a real scene requires image-based rendering techniques.
While new high-performance, light-transmitting materials such as aerogel and light-
transmitting concrete compel us to question the nature of solidity, a new technology
developed by University of Tokyo seeks to make matter disappear altogether.
Scientists at Tachi Laboratory have developed Optical Camouflage, which utilizes a
collection of devices working in concert to render a subject invisible. Although more
encumbering and complicated than Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak, this system has
essentially the same goal, rendering invisibility by slipping beneath the shining, silvery cloth.
Optical Camouflage requires the use of clothing – in this case, a hooded jacket – made with
a retro-reflective material, which is comprised by thousands of small beads that reflect
light precisely according to the angle of incidence. A digital video camera placed behind
the person wearing the cloak captures the scene that the individual would otherwise
obstruct, and sends data to a computer for processing. A sophisticated program calculates the
appropriate distance and viewing angle, and then transmits scene via projector using a
combiner, or a half silvered mirror with an optical hole, which allows a witness to
perceive a realistic merger of the projected scene with the background – thus rendering the
cloak-wearer invisible.

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