Nick Hudyma

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

E-mail: nhudyma@unf.edu

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Research Interests: Computer systems and computational processes, Computational Engineering, Computational Science and Engineering

Biography

Nick Hudyma is currently a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, FL. He completed his Bachelor’s degree in Geological Engineering from the University of Manitoba, Master’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Nevada Las Vegas. His research interests are in geotechnical engineering and engineering geology. His current research work focuses on imaging applications in geotechnical engineering for rock and infrastructure characterization, investigation and characterization of karst terrain, and laboratory characterization of weathered rock.

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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