Computer Science student to present at UW-L

Gabriel Grundtner will join more than 3,000 undergraduate students expected to present findings at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse this week for the National Conference on Undergraduate Research.

The event started Thursday and runs through Saturday, with displays from 60 disciplines, from biology to theater. Undergraduates from 48 states and seven countries are displaying work for the event.

Grundtner will present “Using Optical Character Recognition and Ajax to Bring Legacy Images to Life” from 9:30 to 9:50 a.m. today. He is working with Rob Gordon, Computer Science, on the project.

Grundtner has been working with the Office of Residence Life to augment images. He states,  “Many institutions have a repository of images of their physical plant available from either an intranet or internet site. Unfortunately, these legacy images provide a static, two-dimensional view of the physical plant.

“We our currently working with the Residence Life Department at Saint Mary’s to integrate student photos with residence hall images. A Residence Life staff member will be able to select a room from an image of a residence hall and view the photos and names of the residents of that room. After completing our work with student photos, we plan to generalize our solution to allow incorporation of video.”