AI Project: Surface Matching with Amateur Photography

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AI ProjectSurface Matching with Amateur
Photography

• Chris Trevino

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The Vision

• The original goal of this project was to find a
  way to systematically restore broken
  stalagmites/stalactites in natural caverns.

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Current Scope

• The scope has evolved into a general purpose
  image comparison tool for amateur photography of
  surfaces.

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Evolution

• The current state of the comparison algorithm
  uses image intensities to compare photographs,
  further improvements would also use feature
  recognition.
• The uniqueness of this approach involves layers
  of histograms.

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Interface

• The user must select the region of interest in an
  image, the system then analyzes it.

Selection is Broken Into Layers
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Example Histograms
These intensity graphs provide the basis for
comparing images.
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Business Prospects

• The business prospects for this kind of tool are
  somewhat limited.
• Tool for anthropologists/archaeologists in their
  research.
• Patenting this method could be feasible.