By: Jacopo Bertolotti - University of Exeter (UK)
When: March, 19 - 12PM
Where: Salón de Actos
Abstract: Most objects around us are opaque. Which is good, because otherwise we wouldn t be able to see them. But the perk of being visible comes with the disadvantage of occluding anything behind them. There are many possible ways to deal with this problem, first and foremost is the option of physically removing the opaque obstacle, thus gaining direct line of sight to what we actually want to see. Under certain conditions it is possible to develop completely non-invasive techniques to retrieve an image of the hidden object, but these are often computationally intensive. In this talk I will show that, somehow counter-intuitively, tracking the movement of an object hidden behind a scattering medium is easier than actually forming an image and discuss advantages and limitations of this approach.
