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Table Of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS II

DECLARATION II

ABSTRACT III

TABLE OF CONTENTS IV

TABLE OF FIGURES VI

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1

1.1 EQUIPMENT AND SOFTWARE 2

1.1.1 The Intelligent Camera (ICAM) 2

1.2 WRITING A DISSERTATION 2

1.2.1 Issues in Technical Writing 2

1.2.2 Figures and Diagrams 6

1.2.3 The Document Structure 7

1.2.4 Summary 9

CHAPTER 2 - TECHNICAL BACKGROUND 10

2.1 USING HEADING STYLES 11

2.1.1 Heading 1 Style 11

2.1.2 Heading 2 Style 11

2.1.3 Heading 3 Style 11

2.1.4 Other Headings 11

2.2 SUMMARY 11

CHAPTER 3 DESIGN OF ... 13

CHAPTER 4 - IMPLEMENTATION OF ... 14

CHAPTER 5 - RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 15

CHAPTER 6 - CONCLUSIONS AND FURTHER RESEARCH 16

REFERENCES 17

APPENDIX 1 18

GLOSSARY 19

Table of Figures

FIGURE 4.1. A NICE PICTURE. 1

FIGURE 5.1 A SAMPLE FIGURE 10

Chapter 1 - Introduction

The ability to use image motion is a basic low-level capability of the human vision system, and humans use this ability to the utmost. It allows humans to judge time to collision, to track objects and to achieve many other tasks such as 3-D object identification [1]. The development of motion estimation and description tools for the visually disabled could help with the various day-to-day tasks that they find are problematic. The qualitative estimation as well as qualitative interpretation of the motion in image sequences is an emerging research area with many different viewpoints available on how to automate the task [2, 3].

Figure 1.1. A Nice Picture.

Although motion analysis is in itself a division of computer vision, it also embodies a number of topics, etc. ... Note: Figure captions from MS Word were used, to allow the automatic creation of the table of images insert->caption. To reference the figure you can then use insert->cross reference, like see Figure 1.1. You can then update this figure without affecting the document.

It is also useful to use the numbering format above for figures where the chapter number is first, then the image number within the chapter. If your document becomes large and unworkable with Word then you can break down the document into a single document for each chapter. This numbering format allows you to insert figures into an early chapter without having to modify each subsequent chapter.

If you are inserting figures into a report, something to keep in mind is the image format when creating the image (It does not matter once inserted into Word):

* JPG/JPEG - Perfect for photos and spatially detailed images. Do not use for screen grabs or for line art figures or diagrams, as they will appear blocky.

* GIF - suitable for compression of low colour diagrams, such as figures, screen grabs etc. It should not cause any block effects on your images.

* BMP - fine for all diagram types - but usually very large images.

* EPS - excellent for line art/diagrams. Word does not display the high quality version on the screen, but they will print perfectly. Can be large if they contain images (use insert->picture->from file for this format).

1.1 Equipment and Software

1.1.1 The Intelligent Camera (ICAM)

The intelligent camera is a highly complicated piece of image processing equipment. It allows images to be captured into framestores and various image-processing operations to be ...

1.2 Writing a Dissertation

In this and the following sections, a number of guidelines for the writing and presentation of a dissertation are given. These mostly reflect the author's own experience of common mistakes made by students in their technical writing.

1.2.1 Issues in Technical Writing

Paragraphs and Text structure

There are two different ways of starting a new paragraph in the text. The first is as I normally do here: leave a blank line and start at the left margin. The second is to leave no blank line, but to indent by one tab space. Use one or the other, but not both at the same time or do not mix them in a document, as I am just about to do next. See how wrong it looks to mix them.

While I am on the topic of paragraphs, it is extremely unusual to find a paragraph with just one sentence, or paragraphs more than a half of a page in length. It is usually a sign that you need to think about how you are presenting your ideas. Another common mistake that I have noticed, is authors starting a new paragraph with a pronoun like "it" or "this". This usually means that you are carrying over the subject of a previous sentence. You should, instead, start a new paragraph by restating the subject in the first sentence. Instead of starting a paragraph with "This is also the approach used in Feynman's work", you start it with "The Laplace method is also the approach used in Feynman's work".

On the issue of spacing after headings, the spacing I use here is about right. Any more and the heading looks like a disembodied spirit floating in thin air. Text which is both right and left justified looks pretty and is easier to read as the words are more spread out and differentiated. Never leave more than one space at any point in your text, particularly in the middle of a sentence, but also after a full stop. Let the word processor sort out the appropriate spacing.

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