TY - GEN
T1 - PaleoScan
T2 - 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems, CHI 2024
AU - Silva, Cláudio T.
AU - Piadyk, Yurii
AU - Rulff, João
AU - Panozzo, Daniele
AU - Silva, Maria Beatriz
AU - Saraiva, Antonio A.F.
AU - Oliveira, Naiara Cipriano
AU - Bantim, Renan A.M.
AU - de Lima, Flaviana Jorge
AU - Gomes, Otávio J.F.
AU - Watanabe, Akinobu
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2024/5/11
Y1 - 2024/5/11
N2 - Fossils are crucial for understanding our natural history and the digitalization of fossils has paved the way for paleontologists to share and study them in greater detail. Yet, many fossil-dense regions, in particular low- and middle-income countries, lack the resources to digitalize their vast collections. This project reports on a collaboration between paleontologists and computer scientists to design, build, and operate a device that can be deployed in the field for digitizing a collection of thousands of fossils. We introduce PaleoScan, a user-friendly, cost-effective, high-volume scanner designed to expedite the digitization of extensive fossil collections. PaleoScan is a self-contained 3D scanning system consisting of a light and compact mirrorless camera, a microcontroller, a ChArUco calibration board, and user-controlled LEDs. Software and data processing is cloud-based, where the user interacts with the system through a web application. We deployed PaleoScan in a museum in Brazil with a world-class fossil collection. Our early results reveal its potential to revolutionize the scanning process for fossils.
AB - Fossils are crucial for understanding our natural history and the digitalization of fossils has paved the way for paleontologists to share and study them in greater detail. Yet, many fossil-dense regions, in particular low- and middle-income countries, lack the resources to digitalize their vast collections. This project reports on a collaboration between paleontologists and computer scientists to design, build, and operate a device that can be deployed in the field for digitizing a collection of thousands of fossils. We introduce PaleoScan, a user-friendly, cost-effective, high-volume scanner designed to expedite the digitization of extensive fossil collections. PaleoScan is a self-contained 3D scanning system consisting of a light and compact mirrorless camera, a microcontroller, a ChArUco calibration board, and user-controlled LEDs. Software and data processing is cloud-based, where the user interacts with the system through a web application. We deployed PaleoScan in a museum in Brazil with a world-class fossil collection. Our early results reveal its potential to revolutionize the scanning process for fossils.
KW - 3D reconstruction
KW - 3D scanning
KW - digitalization
KW - paleontology
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U2 - 10.1145/3613904.3642020
DO - 10.1145/3613904.3642020
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85194849061
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
BT - CHI 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 11 May 2024 through 16 May 2024
ER -