This is my first project with my advisor Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas.

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Collaborated with Professor Mitra Hartmann of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and her two doctoral students Kevin Kleczka and Admir Resulaj, we studied how to use cameras to calibrate the physical location of feature points on the head of rat.

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The following image is Rat Head Model:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Professor Mitra said that once a breakthrough was made in this study, it would make a huge contribution to bioengineering. Maybe in the future, all animals would be able to study it through model animation.

 

So I took over the task, which is the first time I have learned to use Python for practical work. I successfully calibrated the distance between the mouse nose and the light centers of three different cameras.

 

 

The Video shows how we find the nose. 

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The Video shows how we find the 3D position of points on chessboard.

 

 

 

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In the following time, the technology of how to coincide the head model of the mouse with the real head of the mouse by translating and rotating was obtained. However, due to the limitations of existing technology, the accuracy is not enough to meet Professor Mitra's requirements, and she shelved the project due to going to other schools in the next semester. Nevertheless, preliminary progress has been made in our work.

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Final matching result are shown below:

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