3D Corallite Reconstruction
Volumetric vision-transformers and topological loss for 3D individual corallite reconstruction (BSc thesis, Hargrave Prize).
BSc thesis supervised by Dr. Tilo Burghardt (May 2023), presenting a novel approach to 3D corallite reconstruction from micro-CT scans of coral colonies. Awarded the Hargrave Prize for best undergraduate thesis.
- Deep-learning pipeline employing a UNet-ViT architecture, accepting volumetric inputs to generate segmentation volumes of corallite regions.
- Creation of a novel topological-based loss function to support domain-specific segmentation and consistent segmentation geometry.
- Fully automated system using the Blender API to convert segmentation volumes into interactive 3D object data for structural analysis of individual corallites.