diff --git a/mini_proj/report/waldo.png b/mini_proj/report/waldo.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cdb7dc6 Binary files /dev/null and b/mini_proj/report/waldo.png differ diff --git a/mini_proj/report/waldo.tex b/mini_proj/report/waldo.tex index 1dbad7c..08e2e1d 100644 --- a/mini_proj/report/waldo.tex +++ b/mini_proj/report/waldo.tex @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ \usepackage{natbib} \begin{document} - \title{What is waldo} + \title{What is Waldo?} \author{Kelvin Davis \and Jip J. Dekker\and Anthony Silvestere} \maketitle @@ -30,13 +30,55 @@ \section{Introduction} - \section{Background} + Almost every child around the world knows about ``Where's Waldo?'', also + known as ``Where's Wally?'' in some countries. This famous puzzle book has + spread its way across the world and is published in more than 25 different + languages. The idea behind the books is to find the character ``Waldo'', + shown in \Cref{fig:waldo}, in the different pictures in the book. This is, + however, not as easy as it sounds. Every picture in the book is full of tiny + details and Waldo is only one out of many. The puzzle is made even harder by + the fact that Waldo is not always fully depicted, sometimes it is just his + head or his torso popping out from behind something else. Lastly, the reason + that even adults will have trouble spotting Waldo is the fact that the + pictures are full of ``Red Herrings'': things that look like (or are colored + as) Waldo, but are not actually Waldo. - \section{Methods} + \begin{figure}[ht] + \includegraphics[scale=0.35]{waldo} + \centering + \caption{A headshot of the character ``Waldo'', or ``Wally''. Pictures of + Waldo copyrighted by Martin Handford used under the fair-use policy.} + \label{fig:waldo} + \end{figure} - \section{Results and Discussion} + The task of finding Waldo is something that relates to a lot of real life + image recognition tasks. Fields like mining, astronomy, surveillance, + radiology, and microbiology often have to analyse images (or scans) to find + the tiniest details, sometimes undetectable by the human eye. These tasks + are especially hard when the thing(s) you are looking for are similar to the + rest of the images. These tasks are thus generally performed using computers + to identify possible matches. - \section{Conclusion} + ``Where's Waldo?'' offers us a great tool to study this kind of problem in a + setting that is humanly tangible. In this report we will try to identify + Waldo in the puzzle images using different classification methods. Every + image will be split into different segments and every segment will have to + be classified as either being ``Waldo'' or ``not Waldo''. We will compare + various different classification methods from more classical machine + learning, like naive Bayes classifiers, to the currently state of the art, + Neural Networks. In \Cref{sec:background} we will introduce the different + classification methods, \Cref{sec:methods} will explain the way in which + these methods are trained and how they will be evaluated, in + \Cref{sec:results} will discuss the results, and \Cref{sec:conclusion} will + offer our final conclusions. + + \section{Background} \label{sec:background} + + \section{Methods} \label{sec:methods} + + \section{Results and Discussion} \label{sec:results} + + \section{Conclusion} \label{sec:conclusion} \bibliographystyle{humannat} \bibliography{references}