Preface -IFAL 2013The vision of IFAL is to form a high-end platform forexchange and cooperation among industrial, academic and research. Due to thelack of similar academic conference in this field in China but the existinghuge market and stronger requirement of technology, IFAL will surely become thekey platform in the future, and all participants, especially productmanufacturers, technology suppliers and measurement centers will benefit mostlyfrom this platform. Academic researchers can also get the very chance forgetting involved with direct industry requirements. However due to the relatively slow development in thisfield in China, it was expected to be very difficult to organize the 1stIFAL. Fortunately the organization of IFAL was supported, from the very beginning,by Marcin Gorzkowski (Chairman of GRE), Geoff Draper (President of GTB), Ad deVisser (Director of CIE Div4), Tran Quoc Khanh (TU Darmstadt), Jianzhong Jiao (SAE), Yuntang He (CATARC), ZhongrongHuang and Shijung Zhang (SMVIC), Taiming Zhou and Rongqing Liang (FudanUniversity), Zhaoji Guo and Jinlong Ao(S-Koito), Meng Han(Philips), AdamWu(OSRAM) etc. Thanks to ISAL organization committee, for ensuring theparticipants from China to have the better understanding of ISAL and of theadvanced technology of automotive lighting, ISAL offered IFAL some high qualitypapers to introduce us the most widely and advanced technology. With thesesupport, the organization of IFAL is successful, attracting lots of famousexperts and auto industry people from all over the world. Due to the relative short period for the organization, Iwould also ask for your kind understanding in any case of less consideration. For years I have been working on the relationshipbetween lighting and human needs, I understand well the importance ofautomotive lighting for driving safety. The experience of studying inTU-Darmstadt in Germany helps me to understand what the advanced automotivelighting technology is, as well as how well a good academic conference couldpromote the development of industry. I do believe that with your furthersupport, IFAL can realize its original vision. I’d like to be devoted to thefuture IFALs with all your continuous support. Enjoy your stay in IFAL! Yandan Lin Chairman of IFAL2013Organization Committee Vice Director of CIE Div4 Director of CIES Divisionfor Lighting and Signaling for Transport |