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.  

The BiRD project was presented at the pre-conference workshop Colour science & applications – Exploring upcoming projects on 3 October 2017, Alicante, Spain.

Presentation of the BiRD project

Pigment and Colour Science Forum 2017 – Agenda

Bibliography about gloss, sparkle and BRDF measurement

References to literature about BRDF measurement on different surface effects, e.g. gloss, sparkle, white standards have been added to the References page.

You can either use the list with bibliografy or use the reference database about measurement of appearance attributes.

The next meeting will be at Jeju Island (Korea), between 26-28 October 2017.  We will have this meeting after CIE TC2-85 meeting. Please, visit the website of CIE midterm to get more information about the whole event and to register (http://cie2017.org/). If you plan to attend only CIE TC2-85 meeting and BiRD meeting, you should register only for “Division/TC Meetings Delegate” (see http://cie2017.org/registration.php)

The kick-off meeting has been held at CNAM, in La Plaine St Denis (France), 4-5 May. This meeting was restricted to the consortium. Objectives and activities of the project have been reviewed and agreed by partners.

BiRD Kickoff meeting participants : From the left to the right : Ana Maria Rabal (Cnam), Guillaume Gec (Cnam), Alžběta Rossi (CMI), Franscico Verdù (Univ Alicante), Esther Perales (Univ Alicante), Alejandro Ferrero (CSIC), Gaël Obein (Cnam), Joaquin Campos (CSIC), Farshid Manoocheri (Aalto), Tatjana  Quast (PTB), Alfred Schirmacher (PTB), Frédéric Leloup (KU Leuven), Stefan Kärlberg (RISE), Marek Smid (CMI), Nina Basic (METAS)