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Imaging Science Ph.D.

  • April 8, 2019

    13th century piece of parchment paper

    Scientists use multispectral imaging to uncover lost text from manuscripts in Croatia

    Croatia has a treasure trove of historically significant manuscripts, but after 800 years of fading ink and worms eating their parchment, much of the text has become impossible to read. Scientists from RIT are using multispectral imaging to make the writing legible once again and preserve the important information the manuscripts hold.

  • April 1, 2019

    Woman wearing glasses and floral print dress sits at table.

    Cracking down on poachers with imaging

    Elephant and rhino poachers in South Africa can run, but they can’t hide from drones. An imaging system created by a team led by Elizabeth Bondi ’16 automatically detects illegal hunters infiltrating national parks at night. Bondi’s deep learning system alerts the monitoring team who notifies park rangers or law enforcement of a potential threat to the animals under their protection.

  • November 20, 2018

    Teaching computers to learn

    While the technology has rapidly progressed, Christopher Kanan and his team are trying to make deep learning even more versatile.
  • July 16, 2018

     reflective-light solar sails attached to NASA’s Near-Earth Asteroid Scout.

    Developing solar sailing technology for NASA

    Grover Swartzlander, professor in RIT’s Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, is taking solar sailing to the next level with advanced photonic materials. This new class of materials could be used to steer photons and enable near-Earth, interplanetary and interstellar space travel.
  • June 18, 2018

    student and professor talking.

    Mapping artificial intelligence at RIT

    Researchers in RIT’s Center for Human-Aware Intelligence believe their work could lead to breakthroughs in everything from health care to energy management to cybersecurity.