Project-based learning as a motivating tool to teach computer vision

This paper addresses the challenge of developing techniques for the effective teaching of computer vision. It reports on the experience of using the technique of project-based learning as a motivating method for teaching computer vision strategies within the context of a Master´s program module in Visual Perception at the University of Girona (Spain). Students were asked to generate projects which involved the use of invariant features, i.e. algorithms to detect and describe local features in images. Within this project-based context, students were encouraged to search for information resources that would accompany their project ideas. Every student team was supervised by a tutoring instructor and periodic meetings were scheduled during this six-week project to follow their progress.