Principal Investigator Oral Buyukozturk
Co-investigators William Freeman , Fredo Durand , Edward Adelson
The objective is to develop a system of sensors to instrument a structure, and methods for analyzing and interpreting the collected data as a basis for detecting disturbances or damage in the structure.
“Beeview” is an interdisciplinary project to monitor the condition of large-scale structures by analyzing motions of multiple sensors placed throughout the structure. The project has multiple components: the instrumentation for the sensors, the sensor placement planning, and the structural analysis from the sensor data form the primary thrust. A fourth component explores the visualization of structural motions from video data in a technique called motion magnification. BeeView is a joint research project with MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), MIT’s Civil and Environmental Engineering Department (CEE), Draper Labs, and Shell.