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.
