The Cyborg Astrobiologist: First Field Experience

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dc.creatorMcGuire, Patrick C.
dc.creatorOrmo, Jens
dc.creatorDiaz-Martinez, Enrique
dc.creatorRodriguez-Manfredi, Jose Antonio
dc.creatorGomez-Elvira, Javier
dc.creatorRitter, Helge
dc.creatorOesker, Markus
dc.creatorOntrup, Joerg
dc.date2004-10-27
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T07:51:18Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T07:51:18Z
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 and field-astrobiologist. 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: first, detection and accounting for shadows caused by 3D jagged edges in the outcrop; second, reincorporation of more sophisticated texture-analysis algorithms into the system; third, creation of hardware and software capabilities to control the camera's zoom lens in an intelligent manner; and fourth, development of algorithms for interpretation of complex geological scenery. Nonetheless, despite these 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.description29 pages, 10 figures (in press)
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0410071
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0410071
dc.identifierInt.J.Astrobiol. 3 (2004) 189-207
dc.identifierdoi:10.1017/S147355040500220X
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/125463
dc.subjectComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.subjectArtificial Intelligence
dc.subjectComputational Engineering, Finance, and Science
dc.subjectHuman-Computer Interaction
dc.subjectRobotics
dc.subjectSoftware Engineering
dc.subjectNeurons and Cognition
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.titleThe Cyborg Astrobiologist: First Field Experience
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