ME792 2015:UNG Assignment 1

Due: 20/01/2015, 17:30

Task 1
Given below is a profile of Ms Chitra Telang. Write a short sketch of her, in about 100
words with the help of clues given below. Write the word count at the end of your
passage.
Birth : 1950, Mumbai, reasonably rich family
Other: beautiful, smart, sharp, very agile
Family : married, joint family, handsome husband, Director in a company, one
daughter (married)
Likes and Dislikes : keen reader (has an MA in English), discharges duties
sincerely, good daughter-in-law and daughter, loves classic movies
Hobbies : tennis (was school and college champion), swimming, and running.

Task 2
Write this in your own words. The passage is over 400 words. You should not exceed
120. Write the word count at the end of your passage.
Lens-less camera emerges from metamaterials work
Cheap sensors that help cars avoid collisions could emerge from research into a lens-less
imaging system.
US scientists have used metamaterials to build the imaging system, which samples infrared and microwave light.
Metamaterials are materials that have properties purposefully designed rather than
determined by their chemistry.
The sensor also compresses the images it captures in contrast to current compression
systems, which only squash images after they are taken.
Small sensor
Most imaging systems, such as those found in digital cameras, use a lens to focus a scene
on a sensor studded with millions of tiny sensors. More sensors means more detail is
captured and, generally, produces a higher resolution image.
The imaging system developed by graduate student John Hunt and colleagues at Duke
University in North Carolina has no lens and instead combines a metamaterial mask or
aperture and complicated mathematics to generate an image of a scene.

The aperture is used to focus different wavelengths of light in different parts of a scene
onto a detector. The different frequencies in the scene are sampled sequentially.
This sampling helped to work out the distribution and mix of light wavelengths and their
relative intensities found in a scene, said Mr Hunt.
"Then we use some very elegant maths which was developed in computational imaging to
turn that data into a 2D picture," he told the Science podcast. The wavelength sampling
was done electronically so happens very fast, he added.
Cheap, small, portable
Currently the imaging system could capture about 10 images per second, he said. In
addition, the imaging system compressed the information as it was gathered. Most other
image compression systems, such as the widely used Jpeg format, are applied after an
image has been snapped.
While imaging systems that capture infra-red and microwave wavelengths already existed,
said Mr Hunt, they were typically expensive, bulky or complicated to build.
By contrast, the Duke imaging system used a thin strip of metamaterial mated with some
electronics and processing software. Although it did not yet work with visible wavelengths
of light, Mr Hunt said it could lead to a range of cheap, small, portable sensors that could
find a role in many different fields.
"You could build an imager into the body of a car to do collision-avoidance imaging," he
said, "or you could have a cheap handheld device to look through walls for wires and
pipes."
A research paper detailing the work has appeared in the journal Science.
(From news.bbc.co.uk, 20/01/2013.)