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Progress

The two main objectives of this project are to:

• Make construction of appearance (combined) models autonomous.
• Register a collection of images using the minimum description length (MDL) principle.

It is worth mentioning that the two problems are closely-coupled. Having found a solution to one, the other should be solvable as well. Throughout the first year, and particularly at the beginning of the second one, a method was devised to solving the problem on a small scale. However, new difficulties emerged and the practicality of this method was overshadowed by doubt. Here are a few milestones of progress:

1. Sets of 1-D images could be registered based on MDL.
2. The optimisation regime was substantially improved.
3. The correct solution to the registration problem was identified.
4. Correct combined models were constructed at the correct solution.
5. It was realised that the correct solution can be missed.
6. Refinement of combined model in the process of registration became apparent.