SOCIS 2017 Ian Harper
- Name: Ian Harper
- Email: harperi@tcd.ie
- GitHub: IanMichaelHarper
I'm a final year theoretical physics student at Trinity College Dublin. I have just completed my final year. I have worked extensively in Python, particularly in the packages Numpy, Scipy and Matplotlib. I have worked with image reconstruction in the past using singular value decomposition to deconstruct and re-assemble an image to take up less space with minimal loss of image quality. I've worked in other languages in the past such as C++ and Processing.js, and I have knowledge of Java, Javascript and HTML. During the summer of 2016 I worked on a physics project at University College Dublin called Social Physics: A Model of Opinion Dynamics. I used processing.js to write a web applet to simulate the effects of opinion dynamics. I also used Matlab to run simulations of a fortran source file to extrapolate data from the opinion system
I want to work on developing the sunkit-image package. I hope to achieve the following goals:
- Port the Multi-Scale Gaussian Normalisation code from #1899.
- Convert the differential rotation code in SunPy to use
sunpy.coordinates. - Implement image warping for solar differential rotation. #1876.
- Implement the OCCULT-2 algorithm for coronal loop tracing.
- Implement running and base difference functionality and the persistence transform. And if time permits, I want to
- Refactor and write a Python wrapper for FLCT code.
- Implement image alignment using feature detection and tracking. Example
- Week 1: Study the image processing features of sunpy and plan how to implement the relevant code
- Week 2/3: Study the MGN code and code it.
- Week 4/5: Study solar differential rotation and the differential rotation code. Change to sunpy coordinates.
- Week 6: Start Implementing the image warping algorithm for solar differential rotation. Test and review.
- Week 7/8: Study coronal loop tracing and implement the OCCULT-2 algorithm
- Week 9/10: Study how to calculate running and base difference functionality and implement it with the persistence transform.
- Week 11: Test, debug, clean and optimise code, along with documentation.
- Week 12: Work on refactoring and writing the Python wrapper. Try implement image alignment.
- Availability: From 9:00 to 23:00. (UTC-4).
