Lab05: Active Vision

There are 2 kinds of imaging: passive imaging where we sense the world, and active vision where we sense how the world responds to active stimulus, e.g. for active vision we may send out energy such as radio waves (for radar), sound waves (for sonar), or light (for lidar), and measure the response.

In this lab you will understand fundamentals of active vision by implementing a very simple 1-pixel sonar system.

In this lab you will implement an extremely simple sonar system and demonstrate an implementation of a SWIM (Sequential Wave Imprinting Machine) to show the operation of the sonar, using whatever computer system you're most comfortable with (e.g. laptop computer, smartphone, etc.), as outlined in lecture 2023mar16th: