Field Geology with a Wearable Computer: First Results of the Cyborg Astrobiologist System
<|reference_start|>Field Geology with a Wearable Computer: First Results of the Cyborg Astrobiologist System: We 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.<|reference_end|>
@article{mcguire2004field,
    title={Field Geology with a Wearable Computer: First Results of the Cyborg
  Astrobiologist System},
    author={Patrick C. McGuire, Javier Gomez-Elvira, Jose Antonio
  Rodriguez-Manfredi, Eduardo Sebastian-Martinez, Jens Ormo, Enrique
  Diaz-Martinez, Helge Ritter, Markus Oesker, Robert Haschke and Joerg Ontrup},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0409031},
    year={2004},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cs/0409031},
    primaryClass={cs.CV astro-ph cs.RO}
}