Graduate Student Presentation

Please join us for a special presentation by PhD candidate Kamil Chadirji-Martinez regarding a new Geological Sciences phone app he has developed:

SurfaceEye Demo: An Innovative Android Application

After two years of development with the help of a programmer, we developed an Android phone application that can calculate the percentage area of objects in an image. Conventional microscope software does this calculation by converting an image to greyscale. Data on objects are lost through this one-dimensional approach. SurfaceEye uses RGB values to differentiate objects based on all three colour thresholds. This application will serve as a multi-disciplinary field tool that functions at any scale. As a few examples, it can calculate regions above a certain threshold in a colour-coded map, the percentage of stars in an image of the night sky, and the percentage of minerals in a rock. You can photograph hand samples or upload microscope images. It can also name granitoids by using a QAP diagram. A beta version is currently available, so this will be an opportunity to learn how to use it.