Abstract: This talk will describe the design and prototyping of hardware and software to address the problem of rapid and reliable 3-D digitization of very large collections of pinned insects. Using the collection at the Field Museum of Natural History as a use case, a pipeline to ingest of the entire collection of 4.5 million specimens in 1-2 years imposes a few-second limit on average processing time per specimen. I will outline the design and implementation of multi-camera systems capable of rapidly capturing light field imagery for 3-D reconstruction of label surfaces and specimen in single snapshots consistent with this time constraint. With imagery captured by using these prototype multi-cameras, I will describe methods under development for 3-D reconstruction of pinned insect specimens and for automatic processing of text on label surfaces. This work was performed as an LDRD project with Mark Hereld (MCS) and summer research interns.
Seminar | Mathematics and Computer Science
High-Throughput 3-D Digitization of Pinned Insect Collections
LANS Informal Seminar