August 9th, 2017: Day 25

Today was Joe's first day back since last Monday. The morning meeting was pretty standard, everyone talked about how their project/presentation is coming along. After that Paige and I made some critiques to our presentation. Our current dilemma is that we want to use an overlay image of the three main types of green while Dave wants us to use an inverse color images of the entire map, still using green. We tried to set up our presentation in the auditorium but it didn't work the first time we tried. We spent the better half of the morning working on new data Dave had given us a few days before. I'm not 100% sure about what any of it is but it's kind of cool. We did a run through of our presentation before lunch and we were under 11 minutes so that's good and also kind of bad. We just need to explain things more. At about 1 Paige and I had a video call with Robert/Bob, the guy who gave us all the questions for the Selden Map. It was really Dave and Di talking and us quietly sitting in the background but it was a good call. I think for the rest of the day we're just going to focus on the presentation. I sounded really nervous during the practice one today so I need to work on that. There's only five work days until the final presentations so I have some time to fix it. I'm ready to go home but I'm also sad to leave Rochester. It's conflicting but I don't have a choice but to leave so I'm going to try and make the most of this next week.

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July 20th, 2017: Day 11

The morning meeting wasn't too bad today, we finished up the abstracts and had a good chat. Paige and I had the most eventful morning we've ever had, we got to go to all four floors and visit all of the labs trying to find people. We also talked to Ryan to let him know how disappointed we were with him but he's fine. We've been putting the final touches on the presentation and it looks pretty good. Peter, Ashley, and Tristan came up for lunch and we analyzed life's deepest mysteries like if Peter's shorts were shorter than mine, which they definitely were, and each others social media pages. It was a pretty good lunch. I've been doing a lot of reading today in the absence of work. Going back and forth between a dry book and a semi-dry presentation is absolutely exhilarating. Paige has been making a lot of small changes to the slides and I'm good with that, they aren't major and she's right to do most of them so I'm glad she sees some of these

Abstract Rough Draft

Document Restoration's main focus is to study old documents and analyze them using several techniques. We are currently working on finding corrections using pigment analysis and imaging enhancements on the Selden Map of the Ming Dynasty dating back to the 1600's. We will also be working with faded and illegible texts. These documents have either been erased, covered up, or have faded. Spectral imaging creates more precise and useful information than regular red, green, blue (RGB) imagery. For example, hy per-spectral and multi-spectral imaging are used to make items more legible and more visible to the human eye. Multi-spectral imaging uses less than 50 color bands during processing, while hyper-spectral imaging uses several hundred bands during processing. Other analysis techniques used to get more information about a part of a document include Principal Components Analysis (PCA), Spectral Angle Mapper (SAM), and Mahalanobis Distance. These techniques can also be applied t

July 19th, 2017: Day 10

During the morning meeting today Joe attempted to look up my house of Google Maps but unfortunately, the car did not drive down my street. We did three more abstracts today and they were all pretty good. Paige and I will be the second one done tomorrow so we'll give it a final review later today. Dave isn't here today so we're on our own and doing extra things to add to the presentation. I just finished a slide that has 12 chips of the map all compared to the red pigment of the chrysanthemums in Japan. I'll add that in at the bottom after I finish this. Paige is working on comparing chips of the map to a blue pigment and using the island off Southwest Sumatra as reference. Yesterday she did the same thing using green pigments and put together a map and I'm attempting to do the same but there are far less red pigment on the map so the SAM image is usually white with a small amount of black or grey. I'll add that image in later too. I guess all we have left to do

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