1 Image Recognition has a wide variety of cool apps Robotic control Robotic control Quality control of manufactured parts Quality control of manufactured parts Medical imaging Medical imaging Images from Dr. Walter Images from Dr. Walter Biometrics Biometrics Photograph analysis Photograph analysis Surveillance Surveillance Face detection Face detection Color matching by cell- phone Color matching by cell- phone 3D photography/mapping (Google’s street view) 3D photography/mapping (Google’s street view)street viewstreet view

Term Projects Requirements Requirements Interesting to you Interesting to you Need to be able to get data Need to be able to get data Teams of 4 Teams of 4 Each person me a topic (1 annotated slide, with >= 1 reference) by Wednesday 11:59 pm Each person me a topic (1 annotated slide, with >= 1 reference) by Wednesday 11:59 pm Form a team in advance  save yourself work! Form a team in advance  save yourself work! You need only submit 1 proposal per pre-formed team. You need only submit 1 proposal per pre-formed team. Will give a 2-minute, 1-slide “lightning talk” on Thursday and projects will be chosen by the end of the day. Will give a 2-minute, 1-slide “lightning talk” on Thursday and projects will be chosen by the end of the day.

How to start What interests you, either in the list or on your own? What interests you, either in the list or on your own? Be creative! Be creative! Dig some Dig some Talk to me Talk to me Consult the literature (at least 1 reference initially) Consult the literature (at least 1 reference initially)

Past projects, Where’s Waldo? Where’s Waldo? Face recognition in video Face recognition in video Iris detection Iris detection Sport classification Sport classification Eigenfaces Eigenfaces Aircraft detection in aerial images Aircraft detection in aerial images Baesler’s shopping cart surveillance Baesler’s shopping cart surveillance 4

Past projects, Spot the differences Spot the differences Connect the dots (digit recognition) Connect the dots (digit recognition) Counting cells in fly retinas Counting cells in fly retinas Gesture recognition Gesture recognition Conformal coating misapplication detection Conformal coating misapplication detection Automated image region tagging Automated image region tagging 5

Past projects, Handwritten digit recognition for Tablet PC Handwritten digit recognition for Tablet PC ID’ing the goal and ball in RoboCup ID’ing the goal and ball in RoboCup Playing Card ID system Playing Card ID system Salamander recognition (for biologists) Salamander recognition (for biologists) Talk show recognition from video stills (presented at ASEE conference) Talk show recognition from video stills (presented at ASEE conference) NEAT Face Detection NEAT Face Detection Towards Object Recognition, using OpenCV and real-time videos Towards Object Recognition, using OpenCV and real-time videos Painting genre classifier Painting genre classifier

Past projects, Tennis-ball tracker in video (in OpenCV, not MATLAB) Tennis-ball tracker in video (in OpenCV, not MATLAB) Projectile Hole Recognition Projectile Hole Recognition For senior project For senior project High-capacity color barcodes High-capacity color barcodes Road location from frontal view Road location from frontal view Towards automatic generation of Miis from photos Towards automatic generation of Miis from photos

Past projects, Road-sign detection Road-sign detection License-plate detection License-plate detection Recognizing Constellations Recognizing Constellations IGVC Obstacle and Line Detection IGVC Obstacle and Line Detection Connect the Dots Connect the Dots Geographic Feature Extraction from Satellite Images Geographic Feature Extraction from Satellite Images

Projects, Bejewelled AI Bejewelled AI Gesture-controlled mouse (very cool!) Gesture-controlled mouse (very cool!) Smart Board figure detector Smart Board figure detector Visual servoing for Rovio robot (senior project) Visual servoing for Rovio robot (senior project)

Some projects, Brain Tumors Brain Tumors Paint by Numbers Paint by Numbers Vision for Chess AI Vision for Chess AI Photomosaic Photomosaic

Senior Thesis Topics My research was on using context to help classify whole scenes I have done… We could do… Camera settings (flash, exposure time) Geospatial (GPS) Data General image collections Specific image collections (learning stats specific to a single user’s habits) Fully-labeled data Partially-labeled data General image collections Events (parties, weddings) Outdoor scenes Indoor scenes (done already)