Research Day 02: Scientific Method

I. Google articile about The Scientific Method

 

II. Google article about Lesson Plan Notes 

III. Google Student Worksheet

(Source: above articles obtained from Google at http://www.google.com/events/sciencefair/educators.html)

Visual Information Day 02

Tablet market share in fourth quarter 2012

(Source: IDC at http://bit.ly/14IdUci)

A Courtroom Map of A Magistrates' Court

References

D.L.A. Barker (2007). Law Made Simple. 12th Ed. Elsevier Ltd

 

Object Recognition Day 01

Challenges in visual object recognition

 Matching and learning visual objects is challenging because of the following factors.

1. Illumination conditions
2. Object pose
3. Camera viewpoint
4. Partial occlusions
5. Unrelated background clutter
6. Computational complexity
7. Scalability

State of the art of visual object recognition methods

A good feature extraction method needs to have the following properties.

1. Being able to extract local invariant features (e.g. scale invariance, affine invariance)
2. Fast to extract
3. Robust to viewpoint variations
4. Retaining enough discriminative power to allow for reliable matching

References

Kristen Grauman and Bastian Leibe (2011) . Visual Object Recognition (Synthesis Lectures on Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning). Morgan & Claypool.

Visual Information Day 01

 Australia's Tax Take - Winners and Losers

(Source:The Weekend Australia Newspaper, February 2-3, 2013)

(Source:The Age Newspaper, February 2, 2013)

 

 (Source:The Age Newspaper, February 2, 2013)

 

  (Source:The Age Newspaper, February 2, 2013)

 

Victoria, Australia House prices 1 year to 30 October 2012

(Source: Australian Property Investor Magazine, February 2013 Issue)