The next progress meeting of BiRD, that will be held at CNAM, in La Plaine St Denis (FR), 21 May (9 am – 5 pm) to 22 May (9 am, 12 am). Please, save the date in your agenda.

Following topics will be discussed :
– Progress on BRDF recommandations
– BRDF data file format proposal
– Measurement of Gloss
– Measurement of Sparkle
Details will be also given about BxDiff, our new project on BTDF & BSSRDF measurement and modelling, multiscale traceability, speckle and polarisation issues on BRDF. We will also have a breakout session to get your feedback, needs and remarks. And of course, coffee breaks and evening diner in Paris, to discuss in a non formal situation.

Date :
May 21 (9 am – 5 pm),  May 22 (9 am – 12 am)

Location :
CNAM
61 rue du Landy
La Plaine St Denis, France (see https://goo.gl/maps/r8YgdFQqmh52)

How to get to CNAM

Map Metro Paris

Venue :
Take train RER B North (blue line) and stop at “La Plaine – Stade de France”. Caution, you have to buy a special Ticket (zone 1-2). Once there, it’s about 5 mn walk. Follow the map between the RER station and CNAM (see document attached).

Hotel :
Recommanded nearby Metro Stop “Gare du Nord” (8 mn), “Chatelet – Les Halles” (11 mn) or “Saint Michel Notre Dame” (13 mn).

Airport
Try to arrive at CDG Airport (north of Paris).
To go to Paris, 2 options :
“Paris by train” : 10€, 35mn. Buy a ticket at the airport. The connecting train CDG-Paris is the RER B, so it stops at “La Plaine Stade de France”  which is useful is you fly back in the afternoon.
Taxi : 55€, 25mn (according to traffic)

Train :
Thalys and Eurostar arrive in Gare du Nord. Then it’s 8 mn with RER B to get to “La Plaine – Stade de France

A new paper has been published within the EMPIR 16NRM08 Project “Bidirectional reflectance definitions” (BiRD) in the Optics Express Issue 23.

A. Ferrero, J. L. Velázquez, E. Perales, J. Campos, and F. M. Martínez Verdú, Definition of a measurement scale of graininess from reflectance and visual measurements, Optics Express, Vol. 26, Issue 23, pp. 30116-30127 (2018)

Dear stakeholders,

Presentations from our workshop “Open questions on gloss measurement” in Madrid are available in the Stakeholder Area.

To access the documents, please login or if you do not have login, please contact us for registration.

We have an new industrials who jointed the group of BiRD’s stakeholders.

For more information visit the Stakeholder Area.

Rhopoint Instruments is a UK based designer and manufacturer of test equipment primarily focussed towards appearance quality.

The company was founded in 1988 as a manufacturer of glossmeters. Since this time, the product range has developed and grown to test not just gloss but many other parameters of total surface quality including Orange Peel / DOI, Haze, Texture, Defect Analysis, Shade and Opacity.

Their handheld instruments are designed to be used in both research and development and production environments in numerous industries including: paints and coatings, automotive, yacht manufacture, metal polishing, polished stone, smart phone, tablet PC and laptop covers, coil coating, printing and graphic arts, powder coating, furniture and plastics.

Rhopoint Instruments is part of the Rhopoint group of companies which operate to ISO9001:2008 Quality Management Systems.

First day will be a workshop on gloss, with the aim to provide you the last progresses in the field of gloss perception, gloss comprehension and gloss measurement.
The second day will be devoted to BiRD project progresses (Sparkle, BRDF and data files).

Workshop “Open questions on gloss measurement”

October 23^rd 2018, Madrid, Spain

This workshop will be the opportunity to talk about research questions on gloss as a visual attribute and about issues and new developments with respect to gloss measurement.

The workshop will be followed by the kick-off meeting of a new Joint Technical Committee (JTC) on Gloss which has been proposed to CIE and is pending to be officially approved.

We would like to invite you to contribute to the workshop, by proposing a talk on the topic of gloss. It must be research oriented and non-commercial. If you are interested, please send a short abstract of 200-300 words to Ana Rabal (ana-maria.rabal-almazor@lecnam.net) before October 16^th 2018. This abstract will be reviewed by the scientific committee composed of Frédéric Leloup (KU Leuven and propose co-chairperson of the CIE JTC on gloss), Gaël Obein (CNAM and propose co-chairperson of the CIE JTC on gloss), Esther Perales (Universirty of Alicante) and Alejandro Ferrero (CSIC). The final program will be published on October 17^th on the website along with selected abstracts.

4^th Project progress meeting of JRP BiRD 

October 24^th-25^th 2018, Madrid, Spain

The meeting will be focused in the progress of the project. The work done within every work package as well as the schedule of deliverables will be reviewed. A questions and answers session on the development and trends of the project will be held, so stakeholders and collaborators will be able to pose issues.

Agenda of the meeting

Registration

Arrangement Details

Hotels near CSIC + hostels updated! – we have added more options

Metro Map + Tourist Map Metro Madrid

Stakeholder meeting

The progress meeting took place in Alicante, Spain, 25-27 April 2018. This meeting was focused on the exchange between BiRD consortium and BiRD stakeholders, as we did in the past during xDReflect. We shared  our research on BRDF measurement and during the breakout session there was the opportunity to obtain feedback and discuss needs, issues and collaborations. At the end, we had 48 attendees. 18 were from BiRD consortium and 30 from stakeholders representing 21 different companies. It was a great moment. We hope we can renew this experience for our next meeting in Madrid (ES) for the workshop on gloss (23-25 Oct 2018).

Presentations from the meeting are available in the Stakeholder Area. To access the documents, please login or if you do not have login, please contact us for registration.

JTC 12 (D1/D2/D8): The measurement of Sparkle and Graininess

Div2 of CIE has validated the creation of aJoint technical committee (JTC) on sparkle, chaired by Alejandro Ferrero (CSIC, ES), and co-chaired by Youngshin Kwak (Head of CIE Div1, KR).
The term of reference of the JTC is “To provide a methodology to measure sparkle and graininess, and to develop a measurement scale. Measurands will be defined and the requirements for their measurements will be well normalized, in such a way that different instruments can provide the same spectrophotometric data from the same specimen. A psychophysical method will be recommended to obtain visual data, and its correlation with the spectrophotometric data will be worked out to develop the measurement scale for sparkle and graininess.”
If you want to joint JTC Sparkle, you are welcome.

Chair: Alejandro Ferrero (ES)

Recommendation on the geometrical parameters for the measurement of the bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF)

Next meeting of TC2-85
Next meeting will be held in Eindohoven (NL) around June 12, 2018 during the Div2 annual meeting.  A special emphasis will be given to polarization effect in BRDF measurements during this meeting. If you want to joint TC2-85, you are welcome. We need your support and knowledge are user of BRDF measurements, as multi-angle spectrophotometer or goniospectrophotometer manufacturer, as standard artefacts manufacturers.

We have an new industrials who jointed the group of BiRD’s stakeholders.

For more information visit the Stakeholder Area.

Elcometer Ltd. has been for more than sixty five years a world leader in the design, manufacture and supply of inspection equipment to the coatings, concrete and metal detection industry.

We have 3 new industrials who jointed the group of BiRD’s stakeholders over the last weeks.  We would like to welcome and introduce them to you.

For more information visit the Stakeholder Area

DITF (German Institute of Textile and Fiber Research) forms the largest textile research center in Europe with more than 300 scientific and technical staff.

TQC designs and produces field measuring instruments and lab equipment for testing paint and coatings and general surface treatment.

Seelab is a newcomer that designs and sells goniospectropohotometers dedicated to aspect characterization of raw materials and products with optical effets.