SEE - Sight effectiveness enhancement

Abstract

Every year, numerous accidents happen on European roads due to bad visibility (fog, night, heavy rain). Similarly, the dramatic aviation accidents of year 2001 in Milan and Zurich have reminded us that aviation safety is equally affected by reduced visibility. The SEE project (EU funded, contract IST 2001-38228) is aimed to raise human situation awareness in conditions of reduced visibility in the automotive and the aeronautical context by the development of a dual band camera system. In such a system cameras operating in spectral bands less obscured by reduced visibility condition than the visible band produce an image which is then presented to the driver or the pilot.