The Cyborg Astrobiologist: Porting from a wearable computer to the Astrobiology Phone-cam

http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.0808

Alexandra Bartolo, Patrick C. McGuire, Kenneth P. Camilleri, Christopher Spiteri, Jonathan C. Borg, Philip J. Farrugia, Jens Ormo, Javier Gomez-Elvira, Jose Antonio Rodriguez-Manfredi, Enrique Diaz-Martinez, Helge Ritter, Robert Haschke, Markus Oesker, Joerg Ontrup (Submitted on 5 Jul 2007)

We have used a simple camera phone to significantly improve an `exploration system’ for astrobiology and geology. This camera phone will make it much easier to develop and test computer-vision algorithms for future planetary exploration. We envision that the `Astrobiology Phone-cam’ exploration system can be fruitfully used in other problem domains as well. Comments:

15 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in the International Journal of Astrobiology Subjects:

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Astrophysics (astro-ph); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC); Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI); Robotics (cs.RO); Software Engineering (cs.SE)

Cite as: arXiv:0707.0808v1 [cs.CV]

Submission history

From: Patrick C. McGuire [view email]

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