A Computer Science Graduation Project : Time sensitive - Responses required

[Omar01]

Hello everyone hope you are all having a great day, 

I'm an Egyptian Computer Science student thinking about making a software project in the field of fossils discovery.

 

Briefly,  the idea is to use a new discovered fossil (teeth) to make a 3D image of it (like this image here :LINK ), and input the image into the program to classify as Existing,  elaborate what fossil is it like in our manually created dataset (using Prof. Hesham Sallam fossils Lab) or as "?" for fossils that don't exist in our dataset, 

 

The idea's complexity lies in fossils found might be half a teeth or less, which may be an obstacle classifying it.

 

My question is:  What do you think of this project? Should the scale be enlarged? And into what?

Do you suggest any additional functionalities? What function could be useful in this field? 

And lastly, are there any advanced projects of software programs in this field done? Kindly attach a link if so. 

 

I only have today and tomorrow to formalize the information. Please respond if you can.

 

[JohnJ]

You might find the work done by Digimorph and the Museum of Paleontology at the University of Michigan as useful examples.

[rocket]

Always a good and modern way. Some people are doing like this.

My opinion is:

 

- scale is necessary

- 3d from all side, only perfect preserved fossils or parts of them (with all necessary details to identify the species)

- as fine as possible

 

good luck! Let us know about the project when you are ready

[Omar01]

4 minutes ago, rocket said:

Always a good and modern way. Some people are doing like this.

My opinion is:

 

- scale is necessary

- 3d from all side, only perfect preserved fossils or parts of them (with all necessary details to identify the species)

- as fine as possible

 

good luck! Let us know about the project when you are ready

Do you suggest a specific functionality to be implemented? something that would give it an edge? 
TIA 

[rocket]

for me as researcher and collector it is great to turn it in every direction, blow it up to maximum, hmmmm, and what I often miss are detailed infos in the pic about the sediment.

right color is necessary (but, from same site it could be different...) and collection.

[Omar01]

2 hours ago, JohnJ said:

You might find the work done by Digimorph and the Museum of Paleontology at the University of Michigan as useful examples.

I'm not sure how i should use those two websites could you elaborate?

[Omar01]

1 hour ago, rocket said:

for me as researcher and collector it is great to turn it in every direction, blow it up to maximum, hmmmm, and what I often miss are detailed infos in the pic about the sediment.

right color is necessary (but, from same site it could be different...) and collection.

Could you message me I would like to know more about the collecting and post collecting process in details as it may help me think better
TIA 

[JohnJ]

1 hour ago, Omar01 said:

I'm not sure how i should use those two websites could you elaborate?

They created 3D fossil databases.  Choose a fossil and study the user functionality.

[Mark Kmiecik]

Do you plan to do this with all 11,250,000 species?

[Omar01]

On 8/20/2022 at 9:56 PM, Mark Kmiecik said:

Do you plan to do this with all 11,250,000 species?

Indeed not, i will focus a small number of fossils detected a dataset of teeth.