In this activity, students will learn how to use mathematical optimization to aid in image summarization. In image summarization, there is a large collection of images and the goal is to find a small summary that consists of representative images. For example, for a collection with many images of a mountain and many images of a beach, a good summary would only keep a single mountain image and a single beach image. The activity will be divided into two parts. The first part will focus on how to formulate the problem of image summarization as a mathematical problem. The second part will focus on an algorithm for solving image summarization.
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Math, Science, Engineering
35 students, 1 chap. per 35 stu.
45 min.
School Based Program
9, 10