Looking for ideas on a class project in Computer Vision

Question

Hello all. I have come upon another class where I need to find an idea for a project, and since my last posting on SO for a project idea was so successful, I've decided to ask here again.

I'm taking a class titled Computer Vision for Human-Computer Interaction, and we need to come up with a few ideas for a project that we will have about 2-4 weeks to complete. We have the option of working with 1 or 2 other people, although I will probably be going solo on mine.

In the class we've covered things like image formation, image features, segmentation, shape analysis, object tracking, motion calculation, and some applications. Our homework assignments have been completed in Matlab for convenience, although its not required for use in our project.

I have come up with few possibilities: tracking the motion of a golf club and ball in full swing and doing some analysis, or possibly using eigenface techniques to do some sort of facial recognition and matching.

I would enjoy building an application that I can put on the web for others to play around with, but most of all I want to complete a project that could be of good use to someone (whether for entertainment or more useful purposes).

So... any ideas? Thanks!

Answer 1

Take a look at these for examples:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Applications_of_computer_vision
• http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~lowe/vision.html

Answer 2

There are some funky projects in this ongoing course:

• http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis581/

Answer 3

Its fun and challenging to go from static image processing to doing analysis in real-time. For example, analyze video from a webcam and have the user play a primitive video game by waving their hands.

Or, if you want to continue with your face recognition idea, try writing software to highlight famous faces in a running video in realtime.

Use google image search to gather training data and then see how well your software can do at identifying the president of the US in different settings , for example. Can you train all of the former presidential candidates and differentiate them all?

Also, look into using OpenCV for fast real time computer vision processing in C.