RIT Internship

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!