Object Recognition

NotAGolf · 1 Mar 2008 at 20:37

Hi guys, I'm after a bit of advice.

I've been given an assignment at Uni but I only have 10 days to do it, and I know very little about the subject, so I'm after some suggestions of tutorials/guides/books that may help me.

The task is:
"The purpose of this assignment is to implement an appearance-based program in C/C++ to recognise an object based on a learnt model of the appearnce of the object"
"The minimal requirement is to construct an eigenspace representation of a set of sampled images of an object, and use this subsapce to perform object recognition"

We get additional marks depending on the complexity of the program, e.g. using multiple objects, using SVD, robust statistics etc. However I'm not really fussed about this, I dont think I'm gonna make big progress on it, I'd be happy to get the "minimal requirement" working.

Can anyone point me in the direction of any useful resources?
Thanks very much.

Inquisitor · 1 Mar 2008 at 20:41

You're probably better off asking somewhere like http://physicsforums.com/ (in the programming section).

Volcs · 1 Mar 2008 at 20:47

My first question would be how good is your C++?

gumbald · 1 Mar 2008 at 20:49

You and SoSolid should get together

NotAGolf · 1 Mar 2008 at 20:57

Volcs said:
My first question would be how good is your C++?

Havn't done C++ for a few years now so I'm gonna stick with straight C if possible. My programming skils are pretty basic unfortunately, I have done a bit of work before with images in C though and I've already got code to load images and do fairly fairly basic tasks with it. I did an image analysis course last term where we had to do image compression and noise removal and things like that. However the fact that I really don't know much about the theory is not the best start

Oh and I did see SoSolid's post a few days ago but he's using matlab and working with faces. Our objects are things like rubber ducks, mugs, tin cans etc.