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Written by Andrew Willis
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Thursday, 07 February 2008 |
International Trip to Ancient Mayan and Crusader Sites Recognized by the College
A recent postcard distributed to college alumni and friends of the William States Lee College of Engineering features the work accomplished in the 2007 data collection trips to Mayan and Crusader sites.
The article provides a high-level summary of ongoing research in the laboratory exploring ways which current technologies, specifically 3D laser measurement devices, can contribute to solving difficult problems in anthropology and archaeology.
These trips concentrated on investigating uses of 3D LIDAR (LIght Distance And Ranging) for use in archaeological and anthropological field environments. A custom-built laser was developed at the laboratory which performed well given the difficult and demanding conditions associated with field archaeology.
See the PDF of the article by clicking on the image.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 04 May 2008 )
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New NIH Project on Reconstruction of Bone Fractures |
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Written by Andrew Willis
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Wednesday, 03 October 2007 |
New NIH Project on Automatic Reconstruction of Bone Fractures Funded
The NIH recently approved funding for a joint project between the Department of Orthopaedic Biomechanics at the University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA) and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Charlotte, NC). The joint work is sponsored as part of the Biomechanics and Imaging Core from a National Institute of Health P-50 grant. Principal investigators from the University of Iowa include Thomas Brown and Donald Anderson and Andrew Willis serves as the principal investigator for the University of North Carolina at Charlotte subcontract.
The project seeks to reconstruct complex high-energy fractures from volumetric 3D Computerized Tomography (CT) images of the damaged limb. The project will take place from September 2007 to September 2012. The press release from the University of Iowa is available here.
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 01 March 2008 )
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Written by Andrew Willis
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Tuesday, 18 September 2007 |
Lab Student Yunfeng Sui Receives Blue Diamond Award
The Blue Diamond Awards were created in 1988 to recognize technology-based contributions made by Charlotte-area companies and individuals. The awards are sponsored by IT Charlotte, part of the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce.
On March 27th 2006, 19th annual Blue Diamond Awards was announced and our resident Ph.D. student, Yunfeng Sui, was the winner of the Joanna R. Baker Memorial Graduate Fellowship. This fellowship program was established by Dr. Baker to recognize and continue her extraordinary vision of interdisciplinary research and the application of information technology to problem solving in the public sector. Each year during the spring semester, the Graduate School, in conjunction with the Joanna R. Baker Foundation, awards this prize to a graduate student who has a commitment to a career that will apply information technology to problem solving in the public sector.
Yunfeng was awarded for his contribution in 2D and 3D image processing. One of his past research topics in 2D image processing was to improve a system that automatically classifies agricultural seeds from digital images of the seeds. His current research is on 3D surface processing for archaeology. Here he seeks to build 3D virtual objects from 3D laser-scan measurements of the real word objects. By processing these models, structures of interest may be extracted from the measured data that address problems such as (1) re-assembling large broken objects (bridges, walls, buildings) in a virtual environment from models of their fragments and (2) recognition of scene objects given measurements of the global scene.
Congratulations to Yunfeng for receiving this honor which includes a $2,000 scholarship!
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 21 February 2008 )
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