Project 4, Recognition/tracking

In this project, you will implement a feature detector.  

You are given an image of an object, and a movie in which there is both 
camera and object motion.  The output from your program should be another 
movie where the object is marked in each frame in which it appears.  
(e.g. by coloring the book red, or otherwise.)  Notice that the book is 
sometimes only partially visible.

You may implement this project in any way in which you like.  Notice, 
however, that there is substantial radial distortion in the camera, 
meaning that even though the object you are searching for is 
approximately planar, simply doing an exhaustive search for the object is 
unlikely to be successful.  We suggest a feature detection approach 
along the lines of the following paper:

D. Lowe, "Object Recognition from Local ScaleInvariant Features", ICCV, 
Kerkyra 1999

Which may be downloaded from here

thebook_cropped.bmp
themovie.avi

Describe clearly the approach that you have taken.  If your algorithm 
fails in some situations, explain as precisely as you can what those 
situations are, why it fails, and what improvements you think might fix 
the problem.

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