Possible Project Topics for Image Understanding

1. Emotion recognition - happy, angry, sad, etc?
2. Finger spelling or sign language recognition
3. Season classification of outdoor scenes
4. Shadow detection
5. Human gait recognition
6. Table settings - formal or informal?
7. CAPTCHA breaking
8. Contextual classification of objects
9. Semantic segmentation
10. Combining audio and video for speech recognition
11. Lip reading
12. Shape recognition using structural information
13. Detection of impossible objects
14. Inductive learning of game-playing strategies
15. Multi-resolution object recognition
16. Content-based image retrieval

Possible Project Topics Using an XBox Kinect

1. Semantically rich 3D pixels for video conferencing
2. Interactive walls
3. Finger tracking for image manipulation
4. Gesture controlled panoramas
5. Kinect paint
6. Globally-consistent 3D maps of an indoor environment
7. Virtual control of a robot arm
8. Visual SLAM using a Kinect and an iRobot Roomba Create
9. Gesture-controlled iRobot Roomba
10. Life logging and classification of daily events