The Math/Stats Colloquium is pleased to present our second new faculty member talk of the semester, Daniel Brinkman on “The Mathematics of (Simple) Object Recognition”.  There are many different techniques for recognizing simple objects with various different mathematical underpinnings.  We begin by discussing the basic categories of mathematical object recognition and then discuss one specific example: Shape Histograms.  Through this lens we discuss some common challenges in the field and give some easy numerical results.

Background: Most of the talk should be accessible to students with Calculus II; some familiarity with discrete math will also be useful.

• Date: Fri Oct 07
• Time: 2:30-3:20pm
• Room: MH320
• Snacks: 2:00pm in MH331B

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Hope to see you there!

Upcoming events:

• Fri Oct 14: John de Pillis, UC Riverside
  “Linear Algebra as a Natural Language for Special Relativity and Its Paradoxes”
• Fri Oct 21: Wesley Maciejewski, SJSU
  “Mathematical Foresight: Thinking in the Future to Work in the Present”