K&C initiated development of SIFT to streamline analysis of high-speed image and videos for dynamic material characterization and failure experiments.
In the near-term, K&C seeks to advance the capabilities of SIFT by elevating user interactivity and streamlining the video generation process directly from high-speed material analysis outputs. Our first goal is to significantly reduce video generation times, ensuring users have quicker access to their generated videos, with an aim to be able to interface with analysis outputs instantaneously. A second objective centers around enhancing the interactive experience for users. It involves building upon the existing video player in SIFT by overlaying analysis values directly onto the user interface. This ensures that users can easily visualize and interact with various parameters within the software.
In the long-term, K&C would like to extend to the image processing capabilities to support other needs and capabilities offered by high-speed imaging technology, like DIC analysis, particle and motion tracking, and other challenging and interesting problems where both quantitative and quantitative analysis of images provide insight to challenging physical experiments.
NEXT STEPS
K&C continues to support this software project through the following:
- Enhancing the software’s performance and user experience.
- Establishing a public Git repository for SIFT to encourage collaboration.
- Identifying interested collaborators.