Stuart James ( Tooey )

Well I finally got sorted and have come in for my first day, start off with a chat to John about what I'm going to start on where the project is going and how best to proceed.

Once I started working I have had a few new challenges,

• Linux - I have used it a few times in the past but wouldn't say I'm a linux guru
• Matlab - I have completed a Neural Networks coursework using Matlab but that's it actually programming with Matlab is a new experience. 

Well once I got going things seemed to go quite smoothly had a few problems with the maths since I am a bit out of practice that is one of my "homework tasks".

So what I actually did today, was work on implementing a image retrieval system using the Hough transform. This works by taking an image, performing an edge detection on it then using the Hough transform to populate the accumulator space. This is a space of angles and distances from the origin using maximised values of the columns allows us to generate a histogram fingerprint.

Well this is about as far as I got today, the next step is to perform a comparison on the histogram to be able to lookup on the fingerprints.

Outcomes

• Implementation of a standard fingerprint system for images
• Getting used to working in the University

Homework Tasks:

• Revise A-Level maths
• Look into hough transform and search methods

Next Tuesdays work:

• Retrieval method