RIT Internship

So today was the last morning meeting. It was kind of short, Joe just asked for some feedback on the summer. Emily and I continued to work on Roger's data, once again the C73 images. I ran PCA, ICA and SAM on the images and just tried to make the undertext more visible. Nothing really jumped out today. Emily and I watched Ashley and Peter present, as well as Aditi and we helped give them some feedback and small changes to make.

This morning we went to the auditorium and we all ran through our presentations and received questions and feedback. That lasted until noon, so then Emily and I went back to running images in envi. We resumed our processing of Roger's data, specifically the C73 images. I ran ICA, PCA and SAM on all the images but there are still more so I will continue them tomorrow.

The morning meeting was normal. Emily and I started working on all of the changes we needed to make to our presentation. We found Dave and he worked with us to get some good diagrams and examples to put in. When we finished putting the presentation together we asked Matt to set us up in the auditorium so we could do another practice before tomorrow. It ended up making it past the 15 minutes and we thought it went pretty smoothly. We make a few critiques after seeing it up on the projector but other than that it was good. The rest of the day we worked on the new data that Roger gave us and we put all of our results together to give to Todd.

The morning meeting was really short, and Matt just gave us the schedule for the presentations. I started the day working with Roger's data. I ran SAM, PCA and ICA for the Ambrosiana_C73 images 8,9 and 10, collecting both gray scale and false color images. Then we had a presentation run through with Matt and Joe. They gave us some changes to make to the presentation and told us what to explain in more depth. Then I worked on the new data that Dave gave us and tried to find anything interesting on those.

At the morning meeting we went over some of what the interns wrote in their blogs, and we explained our video chat with Bob yesterday. Then I looked back at the Selden map with the big green blotch in the middle of the ocean and the large land correction on the lower right side of the map. After that I went back to some of Roger's data. I made image cubes for Ambrosiana_C73inf for images 5,6,7 and 8. I ran PCA, SAM, and ICA for all of them to try and pull out more of the undertext. When we were finishing up for the day we gave Roger all of the data that we had collected today so that he could send them.

At the morning meeting today we went around the table and everybody had to give an update on their project. Emily and I first looked at our presentation. Matt helped us set it up in the auditorium and listed to us do a practice run through. He gave us some really good comments that went back and made the changes. After that I started working on some of the new data Dave gave us. At 1 pm Emily and I headed to Dave's office with Di and we had a video chat with Bob/Robert. It was very interesting and we went over our findings so far with him. That was fun so then we headed back to the reading room and started working on some of the specific locations on the map he wanted some more information on.

At the morning meeting this morning David Lewis came in and showed us the camera he made at his internship. Then Emily and I began working on the presentation- finalizing our draft and then breaking up who was saying what. Then we ran our presentation in front of David Lewis and Matt, and they gave us some feedback. Then we went through our presentation with Dave and Roger and they gave us some things to add or change. So then I worked on making the changes to the presentation and making an inverse of the large SAM map for our presentation.

At the morning meeting we finished all of the intern outlines. Then Emily and I began looking at our presentation again to cut it down because it was way too big. Dave and Roger came in and gave us some suggestions of what to change and what to get rid of. Then we finally emailed Bob to set up a time to talk with him. I worked on the presentation for a while and then took a break and worked on the new data Dave gave us today. It took a long time but by the end of the day we got it to just over 30 slides.

At the morning meeting Emily explained to the group our outline and we got some comments. The focus today was to download new data which took a long time. So I focus on the presentation and starting the second half of it. Matt helped us a lot, figuring out how to turn the tif into jpg and which application to use. Emily and I picked all of the good results that we wanted to include in our presentation. Once I turned all of them into jpgs I put them all into the presentation, cropped them and started to label them.

We went over two more peoples' abstracts this morning. Since I had finished all of the cubes yesterday, I could focus in the images. Then Emily and I began running PCA and SAM on the new C73 data. Creating single band gray images and false color overlays. That got some interesting results and I made sure to organize all of them so I know where they are and remember how I got them. At the end of the day Emily and I began to look at our presentation again. Focusing on cutting it down and creating the second section.

Today at the morning meeting we went over some two of the interns' outlines and made some comments. Then Emily caught me up on what to focus on next. We gave all of the data we have collected so far to Roger. Then I began making image cubes for all of the new data which took a really long time. Then I began running PCA and SAM on the image to try and pull out the under text.

The morning meeting was short, we were missing a lot of people. Emily and I explained the Archimedes codex. We decided to focus on the outline and getting that done. We spent a lot of time researching the Ambrosiana Library and then the Jubilees Palimpsest. We had to figure out what they actually are and the different texts that make up the palimpsest. We are starting to think about our final presentation, we have half of it pretty much done from the presentation that we had to make for Dave. I feel like we have a good grasp on our topics.

  Outline   Intro Background: We are working to uncover illegible text from the "Jubilees Palimpsest" and find corrections and later additions on the Selden Map of China     Purpose/Technique: We use hyper-spectral imaging (several narrow spectral hundred bands) and multi-spectral imagining (fewer than 50 bands) The images are digitally processed and combined to create images with more characters that are legible than those in the regular RGB image Processing tools include Principle Components Analysis (PCA), Spectral Angle Mapper (SAM), Spectral Profiles Selden Map Background: The Selden Map dates back to the early 17th Century during the Ming Dynasty The map includes approximately 15 countries and shows a system of navigational routes China, Borneo, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan are five countries with the most significant results Focus/Results: Green corrections in Borneo, Korea, Taiwan, and Rivers of North China Missing text...

Today was no fun because there was no morning meeting. My day started with copying over more data files. Than I had to make cubes for the new data. At 6 we left for the observatory and the bus ride was fun. We listened to a presentation and learned a lot about the instruments they use there. We didn't get to see anything though because it was too cloudy. It is late now so this is all I am writing.

The morning meeting was fine- we were told to find out what documents we are actually looking at. In the morning Ashley, Peter, Emily and I helped out with Titus and Aditi's lab by wearing their eye tracking glasses around outside. Then we came inside and made more cubes of the images both the narrowband and the fluorescence. Then I ran PCA and SAM scans on the images to try and pull out any under text.

The morning meeting was short, we went over our last abstract. We started off the day getting new data from Roger. We spent a while trying to figure out how to make cubes. We asked David Lewis for help a lot and he didn't mind too much. We pretty much spent our day learning how to make data cubes, calibrate them and rename them. We did help Ashley and Peter in the 3D printing and that was cool. So that was my day.

Today I missed the morning meeting because I got trapped in the monsoon. When I got her Emily and I began talking with Roger about what we would be doing from now on. We started by trying to figure out how to copy the data onto our own accounts. Then Emily and I tried to understand all of the different images that were collected, the difference being the filters and the wavelengths. Emily and I started playing around with the images and ran SAM and PCA. I tried to pull out the undertext as much as possible.

Today the meeting was short. It ended up being a very interesting day. We started off running anomaly tests on all of the SWIR data, but we didn't find anything. Then I ran anomaly tests on some of the VNIR images. Chris was in the reading room again but he didn't talk much. For lunch most of the interns went outside for lunch and we had a lot of interesting conversations. We continued with our anomaly tests until we went to visit Titus and Aditi. They ended up asking us to help with their lab so they started pushing around Emily in a chair around the hallway with the special glasses on. Then it was Peter's turn so Emily and I made peter a special hat that said I <3 Imaging Science, to keep the sun from interfering with the glasses. But the software wasn't working so they made some of us do a virtual reality experiment. Overall it was a pretty fun day!

The morning meeting was pretty short, we finished up the abstracts and people didn't have a lot of bad things to say about ours. We spent the morning trying to find people that read Chinese and went to all four floors. We had a fun time trying to print out some of the images we had of both the Borneo and Taiwan port. Everyone we asked thought that it probably isn't any Chinese characters. Ronny and Gerry helped us tried to help us out with the Chinese and gave us some other creative thoughts as to what they might be. Ryan was no help, which was disappointing, but whatever. After we gave up on the Chinese writing, we looked back at the presentation. I decided to go back and redo the SAM images of the red flowers in Japan, both the smaller images and the entire map. Then I went back through the entire presentation and just fixed little things. Today Ashley, Peter and Tristan came up for lunch and they had many interesting conversations. Now I am stuck here with Emily ;)

We once again started the day with going over other intern's abstracts, doing about four today. I started with finishing the map of SAM overlay images comparing the three green pigments. Once I finished the green pigment SAMs I began working on the blue pigment SAMs. I pulled a blue pigment from the blue outline on an island off of Western Sumatra. I ran all of the VNIR images with SAM for the blue pigment and then did the interactive stretching to help bring out the similar pigments. I then put all of the images together to make an image of the complete map (minus one section that I cannot find). I added both of the maps to the presentation and now I think we are up to 63 slides.