Mountain View, CA--University of Rochester (Rochester, NY) students Anthony Visconti and Brett Sternfield and University of Alabama in Huntsville student Josh Walters are the winners of the 2012 Robert S. Hilbert Memorial Optical Design Competition, an annual competition held by Synopsys.
The competition is open to students in North America working toward a bachelor's, master's, or Ph.D. degree who utilize the company's CODE V or LightTools software to perform optical design and engineering research. Awards are granted to students who have submitted papers that demonstrate optical design excellence.
Visconti was recognized for his work on infrared optical imaging using CODE V in his paper, titled "Optical Passive Athermalization Using Schott Chalcogenide Glasses." Applications of Visconti's project include thermal imaging for night vision systems, as well as remote sensing for aerial photography and satellite data collection.
Sternfield earned recognition for his work on a machine vision imaging system using CODE V in his paper, titled "190 Degree FFOV Fisheye for Autonomous Robots." Sternfield presents a method to improve a robot's ability to navigate a new environment and capture images, which can be useful for a wide range of tasks, including search and rescue missions, intelligence gathering, and fast food delivery.
And Walters garnered accolades for his project using CODE V, titled "Non-Sequential Modeling of Multi-Aperture Lenslet Array Spectropolarimetic Imager." The goal of Walters' design is to reduce crosstalk in an imaging system that uses an array of lenslets, so that the resulting image of each channel is clearly distinguished. This work will aid those researching the benefits of non-traditional imaging systems, similar to the compound eye found in insects.
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