Getting Started...

Hello out there.

My name is Matt Young, and I set up this blog to serve as a journal of my computer vision projects here at the University of Illinois. I hope that any visitors to the site find my work both interesting and useful.

My main project right now is for Professor Yi Ma, and it's just getting underway. My initial idea was to design an algorithm which would be capable of taking several pictures of a scene and performing the following operations:

1. Recover the 3D geometry of the scene
2. Find occlusions in the scene and determine what regions of the scene are not visible
3. Determine an optimal set of movements that will reveal all the hidden areas of the scene

However, in a meeting with Prof. Ma earlier today I was easily convinced that this sort of project is FAR too difficult for the time constraint that I have. Prof. Ma encouraged me to focus simply on the occlusion problem and try to find an interesting subtopic to consider. He gave me a paper to read on the subject to jump start my work.

I'm going to have to give this some serious thought over the next few days...