Advances in Digital Media Workshop Series: Florida Museum
Workshop at FLMNH: March 2024
When: March 25-26, 2024
Where: Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville, Florida
Organizers:
Expected Number of Participants:
Logistics Information
Invited participant support:
Airport: You airfare should be booked through Jillian Goodwin, if you did not book your airfare through her, please reach out immediately.
Airport transportation: Uber/Lyft/taxi/rental car to get from the Gainesville Airport to the airport. It takes ~15 minutes to get from the airport to the hotel.
Hotel: Workshop participants will be staying in the Hilton University of Florida Conference Center Gainesville on 34th St. You will not need to book your lodging reservations, these rooms will be blocked out for the workshop.
Workshop venue: The workshop meeting will happen in the Powell Hall/ The Florida Museum of Natural History.
Transportation from hotel to venue: The hotel is within a short walking distance from Powell Hall and there is also the option of getting an Uber or Lift from the hotel.
Wifi networks: If you are coming from an institution that uses eduroam that will be available on the University of Florida campus. If that is not the case, then you can connect via the UF Guest wifi.
Meals: Breakfast, break refreshments, and lunch will be provided at FLMNH on both workshop days. Dinner is not provided, but you will be reimbursed for meals not provided following the workshop and group dinners are encouraged, the iDigBio team will have suggestions for group dining.
Referencing Pre-Workshop Materials
Resource 1: In development
Agenda
| Day 1: Monday, March 25 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 | Breakfast on your own or light snacks at the Museum | |
| 9:00 | Workshop Welcome & Logistics | Jill Goodwin (iDigBio) |
| 9:10 | Topic | Speaker |
| 9:20 | Public Welcome | Gil Nelson |
| 9:30 | Automated Multicamera photogrammetry | Nelson Rios (YPM) |
| 9:40 | 360 degree photography/videography | Nicole James **remote** |
| 9:50 | Photogrammetry, mutli-camera, animation | Duncan Irschick (remote) |
| 10:00 | Questions | Gil Nelson |
| 10:15 | Fluid collection photogrammetry/field photogrammetry | Zach Randall (FLMNH) |
| 10:25 | 3D imaging on a budget | Adam Rountrey (Michigan) |
| 10:35 | Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and NeRF-like approaches: Gaussian Splatting and Neuralangelo | Alex Adkinson (FSU) |
| 10:45 | Questions | |
| 11:00 | Contrast CT | Jamie Gray (FLMNH) |
| 11:10 | Computed tomography - NOCTURN? | Ed Stanley (FLMNH) |
| 11:20 | Complex mission-critical imaging projects | Jennifer (JJ) Hill (SI) |
| 11:30 | flourescence | Matteo Fabbri |
| 11:40 | Baby bat bytes back: digitally reconstructing embryos from histological serial section images | Jon Woodward (MCZ) |
| 11:50 | Questions/Discussion | |
| 12:10 - 1:10 | Lunch Provided @ Powell Hall | |
| Digitizing Whale, Ichthyosaur, and Sea Cow Graveyards: How 3D Data Changed The Way I think About Research, Collections, and Diplomacy | Nick Pyenson **remote** (SI NMNH) | |
| 1:40 | LiDAR & Aerial Imaging for Anthro collections | Whittaker Schroder (UF) |
| 1:50 | Questions | |
| 2:05 | Utilizing AI for natural history collection images | Arthur Porto (FLMNH) |
| 2:15 | NH data in VR/AR | Hyo Kang (UF) |
| 2:25 | Questions | |
| 2:40 | Imaging/Research/Databasing/Collaborations and/or commercial licensing of natural History digital collections | Dave Blackburn (FLMNH) |
| 2:55 | Harmonizing media for MacCauly Library & Digital Extended Specimen | Mike Webster (Cornell's MacCauly Library) |
| 3:45 | Discussion/Breakouts/Priorities (post-it activity) | Mike Webster |
| 4:00 | Leveraging the emerging opportunities for digital media capture in the documentation of biodiversity | Austin Mast (FSU) |
| Day 2: Tuesday, March 26 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 | Breakfast on your own or light snacks at the Museum | |
| 8:30 | Welcome back | Jillian Goodwin |
| 8:40 | Topic | Speaker |
| 8:55 | Topic | Speaker |
| 9:05 | Topic | Speaker |
| 9:20 | Topic | Speaker |
| 9:30 | Topic | Speaker |
| 9:40 | Break | |
| 10:00 | Breakout Groups | |
| 12:00 | Lunch Provided | |
| 1:00 | Topic | Speaker |
| 2:00 | Topic | Speaker |
| 4:00 | Topic | Speaker |
| 5:00 | Wrap-up |