Field Geology with a Wearable Computer: First Results of the Cyborg Astrobiologist System

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dc.creatorMcGuire, Patrick C.
dc.creatorGomez-Elvira, Javier
dc.creatorRodriguez-Manfredi, Jose Antonio
dc.creatorSebastian-Martinez, Eduardo
dc.creatorOrmo, Jens
dc.creatorDiaz-Martinez, Enrique
dc.creatorRitter, Helge
dc.creatorOesker, Markus
dc.creatorHaschke, Robert
dc.creatorOntrup, Joerg
dc.date2004-09-15
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T03:21:47Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T03:21:47Z
dc.descriptionWe present results from the first geological field tests of the `Cyborg Astrobiologist', which is a wearable computer and video camcorder system that we are using to test and train a computer-vision system towards having some of the autonomous decision-making capabilities of a field-geologist. The Cyborg Astrobiologist platform has thus far been used for testing and development of these algorithms and systems: robotic acquisition of quasi-mosaics of images, real-time image segmentation, and real-time determination of interesting points in the image mosaics. The hardware and software systems function reliably, and the computer-vision algorithms are adequate for the first field tests. In addition to the proof-of-concept aspect of these field tests, the main result of these field tests is the enumeration of those issues that we can improve in the future, including: dealing with structural shadow and microtexture, and also, controlling the camera's zoom lens in an intelligent manner. Nonetheless, despite these and other technical inadequacies, this Cyborg Astrobiologist system, consisting of a camera-equipped wearable-computer and its computer-vision algorithms, has demonstrated its ability of finding genuinely interesting points in real-time in the geological scenery, and then gathering more information about these interest points in an automated manner.
dc.description7 pages, 6 figures. Submitted to ICRA'2005 (Int'l Conf. on Robotics & Automation, IEEE), April 18-22, 2005, Barcelona, Spain
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0409031
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0409031
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/32336
dc.subjectComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.subjectRobotics
dc.subjectI.4.8; I.4.6; I.4.0; I.2.9; I.2.10; J.2.; I.5.5; I.5.4; I.4.9
dc.titleField Geology with a Wearable Computer: First Results of the Cyborg Astrobiologist System
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