Hi Raunaq On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 12:53 AM, Raunaq Vohra <ronvohra@gmail.com> wrote:

I have never really contributed to an open-source project, so I'm very green (in fact, just finished with a minor bugfix, putting up a pull request soon), but I'm very eager to learn and I hope I can do so - in whatever capacity - over the next few months. At the very least, I hope to contribute more actively to this project and meet like-minded people.

We're always very glad to have new and motivated people on board. My proposal for this year's GSoC is to implement image segmentation

algorithms like the graph cut and normalized cut algorithms. I have a fair idea about the normalized cut method through a paper (Segmenting Point Sets, Yamazaki, Natarajan, Bai & Hasmann, University of California, Davis) and Shi & Malik's Eigenvector method and will study more about the others as well.

There's quite a bit of interest in implementing image segmentation algorithms, so I suggest also having a backup project idea. The ideas on the wiki page are not the only feasible ones--so use them as guidelines, but feel free to suggest others.

I hope to find a mentor who can guide me with this. I would really appreciate it if someone could help with the same as I'm a little foggy about whom I should speak with.

The mentors for this year's GSoC will be Emmanuelle Gouillart, Johannes Schönberger, Tony Yu and myself, along with any other interested members of the team. This mailing list is the right place to discuss project proposals. Thanks for your bug-fix PR. It looks like that one was already done by Johannes, but fortunately there are plenty of others where that came from :) Regards Stéfan