This homework refers to the first block of meetings, 9/11-9/25 by Prof. Hager and Kel Guerin on computer vision. Prof. Hager's slides are posted here for your reference. Please type up your answers to the questions below and bring to class next week (10/2).

1. What was the main intellectual thrust of this set of lectures?
2. What did you learn? Did the lectures inspire you to think differently?
3. What would you do to improve these lectures?
4. What is an HMM? Can you think of three problems that seem like they could be modeled by an HMM?