Problem

We initially were interested in developing a specific implementation of DSP when confronted with the problem of finding Waldo in the popular Where's Waldo children's game. The point of the game is to find the character "Waldo" in a usually colorful and artifically complex image. The Pictomaniacs decided to accept this challenge, but through more sophisticated means that human observation. We decided to implement digital signal processing techniques in a simple computer algorithm to detect "Waldo."

Last Updated: December 21, 1996

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