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Sample Examination

Because this is a special topic, there are no past examination papers available. To help you prepare for the exam, a sample examination paper is available. While the real exam paper will obviously be different, this should hopefully give you an idea of the style of question you can expect.

Reading Material

There is no set text for this course, but there are several books that may be of use:

• Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications by Richard Szeliski covers most of the material in this course, and more besides. Electronic versions of the book are available for download, or through the library.
• Multiple View Geometry for Computer Vision by Richard Hartley and Andrew Zisserman has a more detailed look at the geometry underlying the 3D reconstruction task.
• The OpenCV website has documentation and tutorials, as well as the source code for the libary if you want to install it on your own computer.

There are also many excellent online resources. One of these is CVOnline, although much of its content is being moved to Wikipedia.

Code Resources

Code for the course is on the departmental servers in ~steven/Public/COSC470/:

• The folder OpenCV contains the OpenCV libraries.
• The reference manual can be found at OpenCV/bin/opencv2refman.pdf
• The folder OpenCVTest contains a minimal sample program. Follow these instructions to get it running.