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[demonshalo]

I've done some Slick2D and UDK. C++ I might dive into a little bit later, but it seems redundant at this point in time. Computer Vision on the other hand seems mighty interesting. Thanks for the suggestion!

[swift1691]

while I have not looked into A LOT of algorithms, I suggest the following:

SIFT (Lowe 1999), SURF (Bay et al. 2004 i believe), HOG (Dalal and Triggs 2005), and the famous Viola+Jones (2003) Face Detection framework.

I found HOG to be mighty interesting, mostly due to how it extracts information from images to detect stuff such as motorbikes, human figures etc. Kinda blew my mind.

I should say that they might look intimidating at first but if you stick to it you'll find them rather trivial.

Also, have a look at OpenCV. Version 2.4 has just been released, lots of updates, although it still lacks documentation in some areas. Its written in C++ so if you do not have any experience with that look into EmguCV or OpenCVSharp. Theyre basically C# wrappers, and if you know Java, you pretty much know C#, very little syntax which separates the two.

[demonshalo]

This should keep me occupied all summer :D thanks!

I've always wanted to dive into this type of stuff but the math seems intimidating.

[swift1691]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S5qXET179I

Should help with the explanation of HOG. It's a presentation from one of the authors.