MRI: The Digital Eye--A Visual Measurement and Processing Facility

该项目将推动下一代自动传感和建模研究项目，旨在获得一个大规模的图像捕获和处理设施。基础设施包括专门的数字摄像机和投影仪、高分辨率运动设备、三维扫描仪、照明栅格、机器人手臂和视频计算集群。这些组件形成了一个巨大的“数字眼”，能够以以前无法达到的分辨率和帧速率捕捉真实对象和场景的外观、形状、运动和行为。动物学、数学、统计学、城市设计和规划以及建筑学方面的跨学科联系和合作将受益于基础设施支持的具体项目和应用。这些项目包括：高保真人体形状和运动建模：飞行中的数字人类昆虫：生物运动分析，昆虫飞行建模物理过程分析：物理捕获光场分析：全光成像和建模研究，全光功能捕获和模拟复眼3D对象识别来自距离数据的城市模拟和可视化。该项目通过提供最先进的设施，为学生提供数字传感技术和动画制作课程的实践体验，促进教学、培训和学习。

This project, enabling next generation research projects in automatic sensing and modeling, aims at acquiring a massive image capture and processing facility. The infrastructure includes specialized digital video cameras and projectors, a high resolution motions apparatus, a three dimensional scanner, a lighting grid, a robot arm, and a video compute cluster. The components form a massive "Digital Eye" that will enable capturing the appearance, shape, motion, and behavior of real objects and scenes at previously unattainable resolutions and frame rates. Interdisciplinary ties and collaborations in Zoology, Mathematics, Statistics, Urban Design and Planning, and Architecture will benefit from the specific projects and applications to be supported by the infrastructure. These projects include: High Fidelity Modeling of Human Shape and Motion: Digital Humans Insects in Flight: Biological Motion Analysis, Modeling Insect FlightAnalysis of Physical Processes: Physics Capture Lightfield Analysis: Plenoptic Imaging and Modeling Research, Plenoptic Function Capture and Simulating Compound Eyes 3D Object Recognition from Range Data Urban Simulation and Visualization.Enabling hand-on experience for students in courses on digital sensing technologies and animation production, the project promotes teaching, training and learning by providing a state-of-the-art facility.