Bienvenue.

Tentative Project Title (tentative i.e. probably going to stay if can't come up with a better one):
Identifying the Cuisine of a Plate of Food

Hopefully we can actually get this working by the end of the universe.

Proposal can be accessed HERE.

Progress so far:

• Raw database more or less collected. Got Flickr query code working and downloaded several hundreds of food images in a few categories. Can download more once algorithm gets going and have more concrete idea of what is needed
• Got suggestions from Tingfan Wu for an off-the-shelf segmentation program. About to try out on some images once get OpenCV working.
• To do next: run on a few images, see what we need to do to clean the database.
• Still need to trial run Tingfan's project to see what it does and shed some light on mine
• Installed OpenCV in Linux, haven't figured out how to set up a project with it yet. Need to run their example files and set up a project and Makefile to link up all the libs etc. See how many tries we'll need to get it running (#1 thing they should teach us in undergrad - how to write shell scripts, #2 thing - how to write sophisticated Makefiles).