Alan Harris

Work place: University of North Florida, Jacksonville, 32224, USA

E-mail: alan.harris@unf.edu

Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alan-Harris-4

Research Interests: Electrical Engineering, Engineering, Image Processing, Computational Engineering, Communications, Signal Processing

Biography

Alan Harris is currently an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Florida. He completed his Bachelor’s degree in Physics from the University of Central Oklahoma in 1999. He completed his Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering in 2002 and his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2005, both at the University of Oklahoma. His research interests are in image and signal processing for geotechnical engineering, optical communications and service learning in undergraduate electrical engineering education. Dr. Harris is a member of the IEEE.

Author Articles
Generation of Undistorted Photomosaics of Cylindrical Vesicular Basalt Specimens

By Alan Harris Ratna S. Medapati O. Patrick Kreidl Nick Hudyma Travis Waldorf

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2015.05.02, Pub. Date: 8 Apr. 2015

Photographic documentation of prepared rock core specimens may be required for scientific studies. For specimens that have surface features which vary circumferentially, it is advantageous to have a single photomosaic of the specimen surface rather than a series of surface photographs. A technique to develop a photomosaic from a series of overlapping images of prepared vesicular basalt core specimens is presented. The overlapping images of the specimen surface are subjected to an initial cropping, a geometric transformation, an intensity interpolation, a final cropping, and an image stitching algorithm. The final result is an undistorted photomosaic of the entire specimen surface. All steps except the initial cropping are implemented within MATLAB®.

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