Rosanna Neuhausler
Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental Systems Dynamics Laboratory, U.C. BerkeleyWorking at the nexus of art, science, humanities, and tech.
Position: Intern at the Chinese University of Hong Kong through the Cal Energy Corps Program.
Date: Summer 2015
Assignment: To create a matlab script that would ingest fisheye images of courtyards and segment them by the different materials and objects (sky, vegetation, concrete, etc.) shown. Furthermore, based on the space that each material occupied in the image, calculate view factors to estimate each materials impact on the area’s temperature. This work was done for Professor Edward Ng, whose team used these images in their urban heat island effect study looking into the thermal impact of different building materials.
