The idea of this project is to be able to detect cats, birds and other animals in images. Hopefully concluding with a generic adaptable algorithm capable of being retrained to detect other objects which can be deployed in other ongoing projects.
The majority of time thus far has been spent on reading and understanding the relevant publications to this project by Pedro Felzenszwalb. Which look at the use of deformable part models to recognise objects in images, which tackles the problem with differences in appearance between objects.
In addition to reading the MatLab code was downloaded and I have been slowly exploring and attempting to understand it, Though its quite vast, I have been able to use the compile script after setting convolution mode (To which 4 modes out of five work out of the box on Ubuntu 12.04) as well as processing an image.
Though their is still a lot more to understand in coming days and weeks, I believe this to be solid start and I will continue to update this blog as this project develops.