How Does Night Vision Work?
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- čas přidán 16. 06. 2016
- Night vision is important for the gamer, but real-life night vision is used by soldiers, hunters, security guards, and many others. How does it work?
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3:04 And speaking of thermal imaging... Crunchyroll!
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what?
I just thermally enhanced a frozen pizza. It was delicious.
Point of order: Image intensifiers are generally near-IR sensitive. (a ~ 940 nanometer (a wavelength ~300 terahertz) IR LED is used for your TV remote and is also used for active illumination for image intensifiers. Thermal cameras have a number of different detection modes. The common one is bolometric detection: It measures the magnitude of the heat produced rather than the luminosity. (The difference in methods is like the difference between "seeing" an LED light (Intensification) and "feeling" an incandescent (Bolometry) light)
i'm gonna be so bold to say. the best pre-order for any game i ever had was modern warfare 2. because of the night vision goggles. when the power goes out from a storm, i pop those one and walk around the house
That's actually kinda cool
+noha gindy yea
Used military grade nigh vision monocles when i served in the norwegian army, and they work so awesome!
Had good vision for hundreds of meters in the midle of the night.
that's just awesome
you got image enhancing night vision goggles free with the preorder?
I wonder if a similar process to image intensification could be used for audio, like if you're in space and need to hear something, it would detect the collisions of small particles hitting the microphone and intensify those collisions so you can hear
Traditional audio amps are a thing ya know
@@ZaHandle But would they work in space though? 🤔
@@thepuncakian2024 there is no noise in space
It will also amplify all noise surrounding it. Good luck blowing your eardrums.
@@drizmans you can use the same technique NASA use to simulate the sound around you with sensors
Please do one on color space (sRGB, Adobe RGB, etc) and how it differs from color depth. I work with color spaces every day and I can't totally get my mind around it other than "more color is better". I know you did one on just color space, but I'd love to see an expansion on this with color space.
You guys should explain how full color night vision works, was hoping to see that covered here but I'm sure that it would take longer to explain and/or there isn't enough public information available to explain it (I know it's a rather new and militarized technology). Either way, the video was great!
In the absence of available ambient light, Infrared illumination is used. It is naked to the human eye but is basically like using a normal light when viewed through the NOD.
Mess up @1:49. it's not a "Thermal Enhancer", you were referring to "Imagine Enhancement".
Yep that made me cringe a little too. I do like how they separated the different types. The detector is designed to pick up light from either a reflective object (visible, SWIR) or an emitting object (MWIR and LWIR). Planks law help guide you choose which bandpass (and detector response) of light you want for your application. For instance, objects at room temperature have peak emission power somewhere in the LWIR.
Yeah, noticed that too. What a shame. :(
" 'Imagine Enhancement?' "
He probably should have added that most cameras without a filter can see in the ir spectrum too, which is why your phone camera can see the led on a tv remote flashing. This is useful for security cameras since they can have a spotlight of ir leds which won't shine in people's faces, making them more stealthy and less annoying while also illuminating the camera's vision.
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it is the same
Mikat Nice try :P
indeed
It's the same, just smaller.
Techquickie on cameras, i'm thinking the difference between sensors (full frame, crop sensors etc) Possibly lighting? why you should choose softboxes over umbrellas and vice versa.
You missed out on one other method- buying a a7s ii and cranking the iso
speaking of night vision in gaming, in GTA V in one of the missions (spoilers, by the way, if anyone cares, i'll spoil one of trevor's missions and an easter egg, so don't read any further unless you want to)
in that mission where the o'neil brothers (or whatever they're called) are trying to get to trevor and franklin follows them, and then they drive off the road, you get to use a sniper rifle with an infra-red scope to find where they are so that you can kill them, in the first few seconds of using the gun you can find bigfoot's heat signature just standing there, and then it slowly fades away. freaked me out a little bit when i played for the first time, i have to admit. i just wasn't expecting it, that's all.
This will probably get lost in the comments but the editing is really well done in this video. Keep up the good work guys! :)
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The only downside to thermal imaging, is you have to constantly adjust your camera. I always thought you just pointed it, but then I ended up taking a thermography certification course for a job I was getting and found out it was way more complicated.
There are hundreds of things you need to compensate for. The photons generated by heat can reflect off of certain materials, and give you a false reading in a process that I haven't fully wrapped my head around. Look up the wikipedia page for "Emissivity" If you're that curious, it has a picture which can explain it much better.
Long story short, actually operating a thermal camera isn't as fun as it looks, because you constantly need to be messing with your camera's settings if you're on the move by any slight degree.
Edit:
And to top it off; no there isn't actually any thermal imaging for your phone yet. Any apps or addons so far have only be NEAR infrared. But not true infrared. Meaning it's little more than a novelty. You couldn't use it for very many practical applications.
2:50
Really...
Using thermal vision together with FIRE is a great idea.
I mean it's not like thermal vision uses HEAT signatures to locate things.
because everything would be red and the person they are looking for would stick out like a sore blue thumb..
It depends on what camera you are using but most will adjust if there is a lot of heat around, kinda like how regular cameras will adjust when between high light and low light
@@AndykonSkyblader exactly
@@AndykonSkyblader also if the building aint completely burnt thermals cant see through glass
You can adjust the temperature range that the device sees. So basically the person would appear on the coldest end, and the fire would appear on the hottest end. Imagine it the same way as if you were to see a person holding an ice cream cone. It's not like you wouldn't be able to see an ice cream cone. It would appear black against a bright background.
Hunting animals with night vision is illegal pretty much everywhere.
Depends on the Animals. Hog hunting it is widely used.
thats acctualy not correct. it varies between states.
I'd rather a hunter who wants to go out at night use night vision than have them shooting blindly into the dark whenever they *think* there is prey there.
We do it here in Texas.
+DasBrotkuchen it varies between states but most states don't allow it for most game. There are notable exceptions.
How come I just got a notification for this 6 month old video?
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I had a $60 sony camera from like 2004 that had active illumination.
who cares
ᅚ it's a comment, most people don't care but I commented because I felt like it
Me too :D and it actually worked some how
That's actually amazing. $60 for a camera especially from sony in 2004 that had a feature like that.
The good ol "Sony Nightshot" feature. If I remember correctly, it had a button thingy that pulled the IR filter out of the way and lit some IR LEDs. IR filter is there usually because the IR light that is nearly invisible to human eyes, triggers all 3 colors on a ccd sensor and really messes up the colors on the final image.
watching that test tube video on this topic,
right before this
made it so easy to understand this video.
Cover what makes different motherboards different from each other.
The features
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No shit, I meant more specifically.
SkewTube Quality of built-in audio, UEFI BIOS, RGB lighting, fan control, motherboard fans, M.2, USB 3.1 support, USB Type C, WiFi, Ethernet, difference in ktime length and coverage of warranty, quality of material, design, size, purpose (consumer, gamer, or server), etc.
Kenrick Brown
That's more like it!
+Kenrick Brown where's the chipset?
Love how this came out not that long ago ;)
I'm curious how does the quarantine work in an antivirus software, maybe that'd deserve a video.
I just wanted to know, as the electrons are released by the photocathode, we are assuming that it has to travel straight to form an enhanced image which looks like the original one.
So, if there is an electromagnetic field nearby, will that disrupt the image?
That's a very good question! I know this is really old, but I have a few image intensifier tubes im not using. Im gonna try this out and I'll report back.
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@@aaronj08ar Kindly, report back!
There is a very high voltage applied between the photocathode and the MCP, and between the MCP and the phosphor screen. This accelerates the electrons which remain collimated the whole way through. In a lot of tubes there are also electrodes designed to focus this stream of electrons onto the screen or even invert the image entirely.
I really miss that slushy machine, if only I connected the infra red camera to a windows computer rather than a mac.
3:06 I almost thought he was going to pull a Linus segue.
Love this channel.
Splintercell blacklist seems to get this right.
I want to know how toasters work.
Just a slot with two heating elements on either side that heat up when a current is put through them.
+Crefftwr Yeah, but I want to hear a note scientific explication spoken by Luke.
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May I use clips from this video to help explain night vision at my job? This would be internal educational use only.
You should at least have mentioned that every photo sensor can "see" IR. You can test this by switching on your cell phone's camera, poinitng it at the Business en of an IR TV remote and pressing any button.
Yet another top video!
great explanation. little late but it would be cool if thermal was somehow included in the title of the video
You should do a review on the ATN Smart Scopes
You'd think a video about night vision would discuss the different classes of night vision.
I wish there was like, a device that emitted light so that when you pointed as something you could see what it was in the dark.
In the military and for hunting you do not want to show your position or what you are looking at. Thermal vision even has advantages at daylight.
I know. I was sarcastically joking :p
Jumpman98 Irony is the word you need to use, look up the definition of sarcasm, it is widely misused. And I got the joke about the flashlight but you missed the point by thinking visible light would be the solution for the problem which it is not.
+Jumpman98 what comment did you delete?
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how can thermal imagers be affective for fire figthers, won't the sensor be overloaded by the heat of surrounding fire?
They're not about seeing through fire, but seeing through thick smoke.
I'm not positive but because the fire is so hot, the people would look black or blue on the camera...
maybe it could be used to locate rooms were the fire hasn't spread...
or tell if there is a fire behind a metal doorknob without touching it...
seems like there are many use scenarios, even if finding people is not viable
not as much as the full white picture you would get by enhancing flames
i see, thanks for the input all of you.
Great video but you made the point that thermal imaging is able to see infrared. Technically both image intensification night vision and thermal imaging both detect infrared. The thermal imaging uses a sensor to detect radiation (upper portion of infrared) and night vision amplifies the ambient light (including the lower portion of infrared). Sorry I'm a dork.
A lot of places have bans on using night vision for hunting, unless it's for exceptions like invasive or pest species like feral hogs in Texas.
so doom calling them "light amplification goggles" instead of just "night vision goggles." is more accurate.
Great video!
Speaking of security cameras, that reminds me of a question I thought of a whole ago. If security cameras are so important to catch robbers and the like, why are most of them so resolution?
*low resolution
I would assume primarily because of cost for both the cameras and the file storage. This should be less of an issue these days, but most surveillance systems in use are probably many years old, when high ress cameras and large hard drives were simply very expencive.
Good outro!
night vision, similar, but very different than thermal vision, the wave lengths are similar, but one relies on the light produced by the objects themselves, the other relies on an external source of light in a wavelength that we cannot see bouncing off the objects
Imagine how much of human progress had to be made for this invention to exist
Respect from Poland!
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most phone cameras can see infrared light. like the light that comes out of a TV remote (try it). so if you have an ir lamp.
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you can even test people for brain injuries with thermograms. those are awesome
3:05
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In case he doesn't I can give you an example, it's very similar to cars, make and model affect performance. Amd and nvidia are the two bases like uh, electric and gas, not exactly the same but the thought is there.
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You forgot that thermal cameras are also good if your are looking for ghosts. Paranormal teams use them quite a bit.
I know I shouldn't ask, but is there a back story here?
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It's good to learn some new things.
Can you guys make a video on mounting drives and mount points in Linux. I'm currently trying to install Arch Linux for the first time and I don't want to just follow commands from a guide without understanding what some of the commands are actually doing. I've been on some websites explaining what mount points are but I still don't fully understand the whole concept.
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Yes, saying that is definitely going to help someone learn.
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You guys mixed up near infrared and far infrared. Far infrared, which is what thermal cameras see, never work with active illumination, because that would essentially mean radiating thermal energy. Not very practical, except maybe in a campfire situation and it would decrease the image definition instead of increasing it, as it wold be absorbed by most materials instead of reflected.
Near infrared is the part of the infrared spectrum that is close to the spectrum of visible light and that works with active illumination, usually with infrared LEDs like you also find in your remote controls, which is why many camcorders - especially those with an optional night vision mode - will actually see the light your remote is emitting.
Both don't really have much to do with one another, near infrared is behaves like visible light and is actually visible to all modern CCDs. Cameras have to actively filter out near infrared with optical filters, so it doesn't distort the light distribution in images, so security cameras are just regular webcams with the near infrared filter removed and often optional infrared leds.
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Why didnt you guys show some apache guncam videos on thermal part ?
Hold on, let me take a thermie
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Been three years since I like this still don't get it tbh
The question of most importance has yet to be validly answered and the question in question I put forth to you now: What's Gucci, Jamal?
And about the red light in the military, it doesn't excite the green receptors in your eye so night vision isn't impaired.
***** In photography red light doesn't destroy negative film either.
Could you guys make a video about gaming monitors.
Good vid dude.
2:28 Zagreb, Croatia haha, nice :D
This video can be very misleading. Heat does not just cause objects to emit light in the Infrared spectrum, but rather it causes objects to emit light across the ENTIRE electromagnetic spectrum, with the hotter the object, the higher up in the spectrum it will also emit light in. This is why when you heat things up to about 600 degrees Celsius they start to glow red. Doesn't matter what material.
1:46 I believe you meant to say "image enhancers" rather than "thermal enhancers".
at 1:49 he said "what if there isn't enough light for thermal enhancers to see" but he wasn't talking about thermal cameras yet lol
The firefighter example is unrealistic. The whole frame would be red cuz of the fire
Ye and because of that a person would appear blue 🙂 ever thought about that ?
It would indeed be harder and more unlikely to be picked of but it can be done
1:12 hold on, who's the owner of that PIMP ride out there? haha :D
I believe it's Linus' In one of the PC build off or Scrapyard wars videos he put something painted in that magical beast to cure.
On their channel super fun they had 2 episodes where they painted it and he never changed it back. I just realized this is old
That is linuses car
Now I got urges to play Splinter Cell.
1:13 what are these layers made of? Ho can you multiply electrons? Is it literally making matter or am I not understanding something? Is it that when electrons hit a layer they stop and more electrons are released from the layer? How can you have free electrons just roaming around?
How is thermal camera useful in trying to see stuff in a fire... won't that be red all over the place because of the burning temperature? So the fire itself won't be visible in the camera because they aren't really the stuff that's giving out IR?
If you wear a night vision glass, you would think everyone around you is a zombie
0:26 looks like certain areas need a little warming up..
LTT is officially Luke Tech Tips
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I am just here to reset the ad algorithm, I want funny night vision ads why not lol!
If the IR emitter method faced IR camera... Wouldn't the emitter stand out like a sore thumb?
Yes.
Almost a million subs. Wow
1:48 thermal enhancers
Cats: lol Stupid hooman they can't see us
Hooman: *Night vision goggle noises*
Cats: O_O
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2:15 ... Your cables are getting warm... LOL... Take a look at that
how does the firemen look for people in a burning building... i mean arent the fires gonna be all red and orange in the thermal camera?
they look for the cooler objects
Downside to thermal cameras: You cannot see through glass.
I saw once that the US has a camera that can see persons behind a wall.. No word on that? I'm sure it is not any of the cases you presented.
Wouldn't thermal imaging be useless in the firefighter situation because the surrounding area would be hotter than the temperature of the person, which would overwhelm the image displayed by the sensor?
No
Justin Passfield Alright, thanks for the explanation.
+MrShi Shi .
+MrShi Shi everything is red, person is blue
To actually explain, in normal situations where the human is the hottest object around (i.e. a dark forest, a cave, an alleyway, and so on.) the human shows up as the hottest object around. In a house fire, the human shows up as to coolest object around, due to our bodies being made up of mostly water, which takes longer to heat up. If you can't see a human because the human is the same temperature as the fire, the human is already dead.
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Military grade nightvision uses image intensifier tubes that amplifies light 10000x times, and there's more than just green Phosphor, there's also white Phosphor, which is easier on the eyes and provides a better contrast of the environment. There are currently 3 generations of night vision available, with 3rd gen being the best in terms of clarity, resolution and light amplification. IIT night vision is completely analog in function, they also do not function in pitch black darkness contrary to popular belief because they still need light to amplify light.
I'm no expert in night vision but I've been studying it because I'm really obsessed with it.
But not Buffalo Bill obsessed...
Or am I?
Nobody ever believed me when I told them it was too dark for my night vision to work.
It can however be argued that it is VERY hard to get a completely pitch black environment, there is always at least some ambient light and if not then IR illumination is the way to go.
@@jeffpraterJSF Yep. What device do you have?
@@untrust2033 lest you live in a box.
I don't know how but I used to be able to see a night vision when I was a kid I would get up and wander around and chase the cat