Episode 26: Image Processing

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News

• Sim City Problems
• http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/11/electronic-arts-addresses-anger-over-simcity/
• AngularStrap
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• Jason: Moon Reader Pro+ (Android)
• Patrick: Spaceteam (iOS)

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Image Processing

Overview

• Image Processing: Image in -> image out
• Image Analysis: Image in -> Measurements out
• Image Understanding: Image in -> High level description out

Features & Methods

• Matrices
• Binary Images
• Image Convolution
• Histograms
• Feature Vector
• Artificial Intelligence
• Singular Value Decomposition
• Neural Networks

Challenges

• Amount of Data to Process
• Limited Bit Depth
• Noise
• Orientations
• Occlusion

Tools

• PIL
• OpenCv
• MatLab
• Photoshop / Gimp