Ms. Xiaolin Yang, an MS student in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, who worked with Braun on capturing the lid motion during a blink automatically from high speed digital movies of blinks. The movies were made in the MEC Lab in the UD Department of Mathematical Sciences with the help of Dr. John Pelesko. She developed a code that could extract least squares polynomial fits from the blink movies using Sobel edge detection with some pre- and post-processing. That mathematical approximation that she generated of a blink has already been incorporated into our efforts to compute the tear film evolution in two dimensions. She worked with Braun in summer 2006 and January 2007. The code was developed in Matlab, and the code with some results will appear on this website in the near future.
Mr. Peter Ucciferro (a Quantitative Biology major) and Mr. Paul Parsons (a Physics major) were supported by an REU supplement for this NSF grant for the summer of 2007. They worked on evaluating and extending Xiaolin's algorithms for capturing and mathematically representing eyelid motion during a blink. Ucciferro and Parsons recorded some observations of blinks and extended the software for this aspect of the project. One aspect of their work was to use roifill to blur regions around the eye so that more blink movies could be used. They presented their results in an excellent joint presentation during the Departmental symposium on summer undergraduate research in August 2007.
Last modified 8/27/07 by RJ Braun