Carrie Houston, a third-year undergraduate, is enjoying exploring all of the opportunities afforded to her at the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science at RIT.  
           An honors student with a minor in Math, Carrie is currently doing research with Roger Easton, a faculty member at the Center. "There's a lot of history involved with our project," she says. "We're doing image processing on pages of a journal of David Livingstone's, trying to recover the handwritten text so scholars can read it."
            Carrie also recently completed a five-week study abroad program in Australia and New Zealand. "It was field studies," she says about her time there, "we went camping and kayaking and climbing mountains. It was a really interesting and amazing experience."

By Amy Mednick

Chris Lapsznyski says his professors’ enthusiasm for tackling difficult problems is contagious. That’s why he has devoted countless hours to developing sophisticated mathematical algorithms to pull out important features from hyperspectral remote sensing imagery. This dedication has not gone unnoticed. The College of Science recognized Lapszynki as one of the John Wiley Jones Scholars this spring for outstanding senior project research with Professor David Messinger.

Traditionally, researchers in the field of remote sensing have mainly taken advantage of color differences when trying to classify objects in images. For his senior project, Lapszynski figured out mathematical algorithms that could add spatial information to tasks such as anomaly detection and image classification. “The algorithms and some of the codes handle hyperspectral imagery on the order of hundreds of bands,” he says.  “The highest I’ve used is 231 bands.”

By Amy Mednick

By Amy Mednick

Most undergraduates do not get to experience a summer working alongside Library of Congress preservation experts and curators in preserving 500-year-old documents. Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science junior Maggie Castle got that opportunity. For nine weeks last summer, Castle worked on a diary from the mid-15^th century and a 1513 Ptolemy atlas that few people ever see, let alone examine in great detail.

During Castle’s Freshman Imaging Project, the students created a polynomial texture mapping device, which allows imaging scientists to study the texture of an old document.  Dr. Fenella France, chief of the Preservation Research and Testing Division at the Library, was invited to speak to the class and Castle became intrigued by her work. Later, she visited France’s lab during a vacation to Washington, D.C.

Inspired by her visit, Castle applied for and received an internship in the Preservation and Testing Division at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. to work on three separate projects using spectral imaging at ultra violet, visible, and near-infrared wavelengths. CIS Professor Roger Easton agreed to fund the internship last summer.

By Amy Mednick

On the exterior it seems Brick City is sweltering and sleepy this summer, but expectations are high and real-life research is steaming along for two undergraduates in Professor Jinwei Gu’s color science labs. Students George Huaijin Chen and Kevin Dickey are steeped in the scientific method as they tackle research projects that they will present at the 20th Annual Summer Undergraduate Research & Innovation Symposium on August 12th.

Sophomore Kevin Dickey has set an ambitious summer goal of creating an inexpensive, hand-held material classifier, or “gloss meter,” initially hoping to use LEDs (light-emitting diodes) as sensors. In his research, the sophomore from Peoria, Illinois has taken on the life of an imaging scientist and truly embraced the scientific method. Dickey has researched, ordered, and tested LEDs, graphed their performance, and written up pages and pages of data and results concerning the ins and outs of using the devices as sensors. (You can follow Dickey’s progress at http://led-brdf.wikispaces.com.)

East Aurora Resident Images Artifacts at Boston Public Library

RIT undergraduate student Maggie Castle wins grant to fund project, leads team of students

June 16, 2011
by Susan Gawlowicz

Link to original RIT University News article

East Aurora resident Maggie Castle recently led a team of imaging science students from Rochester Institute of Technology on an expedition to the Boston Public Library to test an imaging device they designed and built over the course of their freshman year.

Castle, the daughter of Dan and Kathy Castle of East Aurora, will enter her second year at RIT’s Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science this fall.

As a student in the Freshman Imaging Project, Castle won a $3,000 grant from the Carlson Center to test the imaging device she and her classmates designed and built during the yearlong foundation course.

By Amy Mednick

Motion Picture Science senior Allison Hettinger with the 3D projection setup
 

          It’s a simple story of supply and demand, or demand and supply, depending on how you look at it. In any case, what began as a quest for a senior project emerged as a useful legacy created by students, for students.

          Ian Krassner and Allison Hettinger, students of Professor David Long, are newly graduated from the Motion Picture Science program at the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences. The Motion Picture Science program is a collaboration between the School of Film and Animation and the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science. By joining a core curriculum in practical film-making from the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences and imaging science from the College of Science, this program trains students in the art and science of feature film, television, and animation production.