Image processing

The second and current phase of the Bonampak Documentation Project involves digitizing and mosaicing each collected dataset.

at Brigham Young University

The vidicon infrared, which was stored on videotape in the field, presented a challenge which was taken on by the Computer Vision Lab headed by Dr. William Barrett of Brigham Young University. A set of programs written by Kirk Duffin under the auspices of this lab are able to assemble small frames of digitized video into larger, more coherent images; much of the user input necessary to achieve this result was coordinated by David Jones, also of BYU, and supported by FARMS.

Image processing

at Yale University

Subsequent steps towards planning for the synthesis and display of the collected data are ongoing at Yale University, headed by Dr. Mary Miller, the principal investigator for the project, and managed by Regan Huff. The two main image processing issues being addressed are:
   1.how to mosaic the digitized photographic datasets, which require complex projective transformations in order to realign
   2.how to use the detail apparent in the infrared to inform a reconstruction in color that is both aesthetically appealing

© Bonampak Documentation Project
pages by R.Huff
rev. July 1998

Decisions must also be made about the structure and interface that will be used to make the large quantity of image data from Bonampak accessible and useful.