No longer ashamed

New update yesterday. I think we have reached the point, where I am no longer ashamed of any of the content in the book. Surely this is some kind of milestone! Almost finished the main content now - one more chapter to go. Since last time, I have re-written chapter 10 completely and also done some work on chapter 11, added some more algorithms to the back and and sorted out some mistakes in chapter 1-5.

New update

New update last night. Since last time, I've added a lot to the chapter on shape although it still needs a lot of work. I've also added descriptions of a bunch more algorithms and a section on notation at the beginning and done some work on the first two chapters. Most of the main content is present now - I'm planning on going back and sorting out some of the stuff on dynamic programming/belief prop next week in the light of the new graphical models chapter.

Graphical models

Since last time - finished chapter on graphical models, started work on shape chapter. Sorted out some embarrassing errors in the chapter on transformation models, added a number of algorithms to the section at the back and sorted out the section on linear algebra. Basic text is looking quite complete now, but still no references..

Major update

If you've been reading this then you may be under the impression that I had died - not a lot of progress here over the last few weeks. However, I have been working hard trying to sort things out. Since last time, I have added four chapters. Three are on geometry and one on subspace models. I've also sorted out some problems with the tracking chapter, added some problems and made the first version of the index. Enjoy.

Another update

Since last time - did some more work on the tracking chapter although it isn't finished and no doubt full of errors. I've sorted out a bunch of mistakes in the first 8 chapters. I've started working on the geometry chapter - trying to do geometry without homogeneous coordinates (which are beautiful, but I think unnecessary). We'll see how it works out - don't see the point in writing a poor-man's version of Hartley and Zisserman anyway. I've also put in (invisible) hyperlinks so you can nip around the document faster...

Tracking

There's been a lot of progress on the tracking and temporal models chapter. There's now a reasonable description of the Kalman filter, the extended Kalman filter and the unscented Kalman filter. I'm working on the section on particle filters tomorrow.

Update

Working on the first draft of the text for the chapter on tracking. There should be something worth reading in a couple of weeks. In the mean time, I've corrected a lot of mistakes in the first eight chapters, fixed some of the early figures so they are up to the standard of the later ones and added some questions to the end of the early chapters.