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This course provides an overview of the theory of and practically useful methods in computer vision, with applications within e.g. vision systems, non-invasive measurements, and augmented reality. Participants develop problem solving skills, with and without a computer, using mathematical tools taken from many areas of the mathematical sciences, in particular geometry, matrix theory, algebraic geometry, optimization, mathematical statistics, invariant theory and transform theory. Course topics include projective geometry, geometric transformations, modelling of cameras. camera calibration. epipolar geometry. stereo vision, photogrammetry. model fitting., robust metrics, minimal solvers, 3D-modelling. geometry of surfaces and their silhouettes. deformable models, and visualization. Assumed prior knowledge: FMAF05 Systems and Transforms, or equivalent (for example FMAF10).

The course looks at all aspects of the Pan-African Movement from its origins in the Black diaspora to its twenty-first century expression. It seeks to study the impact of the Pan-African Movement on politics and society in the Black Diaspora and on Africa. It emphasizes the reasons for the Pan-African congresses, issues discussed during these congresses and some outcomes of the congresses. Topics include the Pan-African Congresses, the Back-to-Africa movement, the African personality, African Renaissance, Garveyism, and the Diaspora’s relations with the African Union. 

This course explores the social implications of the digital revolution, including ethical issues associated with algorithmic design and privacy at the intersection of political communication, data science, ethics, and policy. It mainly discusses the use of data and datafication in society from social and psychology lens. The first part of the course covers the creation of “big data” that is recorded and circulated in the form of data beyond particular moment and place. Next, it covers selected topics in which such data is being used to understand or influence people’s behavior in (political and other subfield of) communication. Finally, the latter part of the course covers various ethical and societal implications of big data and its applications in society.

This course is an introduction to political geography. The course explores what political geography is, the key concepts, its subject matter, and why political geography is needed. Topics such as knowledge and power, representations of the other, nationalism, states and territories, globalization, feminist geography, and human-environment relations are covered. A key aspect of the course is to introduce critical thinking in relation to subject matters but also the production of knowledge. A fundamental question emerging from the course is thus what is the role of geography in an increasingly complex and intertwined world.

This course introduces the Anglo-Saxon economic model as it exists in the United Kingdom, United States, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and to a lesser extent in countries such as India, Singapore, and Hong Kong tied historically to the United Kingdom. It adopts a social sciences inquiry-led approach based on varying theoretical approaches to assessing how and why Anglo-Saxon countries have developed their economies in the way they have done. Case studies are primarily from the United Kingdom and United States, and the reading and sources will largely be based on these two countries. In the case of the United Kingdom, extensive reference shall be made to the United Kingdom's relationship with the European Union (EU) and the role of both in nurturing and promoting ideas associated with the Anglo-Saxon economic model; such as, in the case of the EU, the United Kingdom-led promotion of the Single Market (1986+). The course explores how the Single Market may have laid some of the foundations for the eventual electoral fall-out of Brexit in 2016. The first part of the course explores what the Anglo-Saxon economic model is and the second part assesses why this economic model has emerged and is branded and stereotyped in this way. The final part examines the effects of the Anglo-Saxon model on macroeconomic stability, equality and equality of opportunity, infrastructure, public sector investment, and the environment.

This course examines the centrality of transport infrastructure considerations within strategic and statutory texts. The ongoing pipeline of major transport infrastructure projects in Australian cities offer an excellent lens through which to consider the increasingly integrative role planners play in key city shaping activities which have social, economic and environmental as much as mobility outcomes.

This course provides an introduction to programming creative audio applications. The focus is on developing competencies in professional level tools and practices. Students learn to code in C++ within the JUCE environment, a helpful framework for producing standalone audio applications for different devices and operating systems, and for producing VST plugins, audio units, and related technologies.