The George Eastman Museum's 2D artifact digitization process is currently an almost entirely manual one and is very labor intensive and time consuming. The museum photographer must manually calibrate the lighting to account for camera height, position the artifact carefully and capture one or more images of it while verifying the quality of the images and cleaning away dust every few images.

Ideally, this digitization process would have many of its key steps be automated, greatly reducing the time taken to digitize an object and reducing strain on the operator. This automation would function in such a way as to ensure the safety of both the artifact being imaged and the operator of the system.

The goals of this project are to analyze the current digitization process and to identify and address major points of improvement. These issues will be addressed in such a way as to be compliant to OSHA standards and intellectual property licenses and allow for the ability to upgrade the current equiment and to meet the FADGI 4-star requirements.

Project Name

George Eastman Museum Digitization Process Improvement

Project Number

P19510

Start Term

2181 (Fall, 2018)

End Term

2185 (Spring, 2019)

Faculty Guide

Dr. Alexander Loui, acleec@rit.edu

Primary Customer

Elizabeth Chiang

Sponsor (financial support)

George Eastman Museum

Planning & Execution

Project Photos and Videos

Imagine RIT

Gate Reviews

Problem Definition

Systems Design

Preliminary Detailed Design

Detailed Design

Build & Test Prep

Subsystem Build & Test

Integrated System Build & Test

Customer Handoff & Final Project Documentation (Verification & Validation)

PRP

Requirements

Schedule

Cost

Risk Management

Use Cases

Benchmarking

Functional Decomposition

Morphological Chart

Pugh Concept Selection

BOM

Mechanical Drawings

Electrical Schematics

Software Diagrams

Manuals

Test plan

Test Results

Design Review Documents

Technical Paper

Poster

Imagine RIT Exhibit