What will I learn in APTCV?

The course is focusing on practical knowlege. See also prior requirements.

C++ Language

The course covers many important topics and techniques including

• memory management & object lifetimes,
• temporaries,
• operators,
• namespaces,
• inlining,
• STL & data structures,
• templates and template metaprogramming,
• understanding the C++ ISO standard
• ...

Participants will be able to better understand simple programs, like this

#include <iostream>
int main()
{
    union { unsigned int num; unsigned char bytes[sizeof(unsigned int)]; };
    num=1U;
    std::cout << ( (bytes[0] == 1U) ? "LE\n" : "BE\n" );
    return 0;
}

or find more complicated bugs like in this

#include <iostream>

struct A {
   template<class T>
       A(const T& t):i(t){
           setMain(t);
       }
   void setMain(const A& a) const {
       // set something ...
       std::cout << a.i << std::endl;
   }
   int i;
};

int main(){
   A a(5);
   return 0;
}

Program Developing

• Modularization
• Debugging
• Software efficiency
• Profiling
• ...

Computer Vision

During the course & the assignements many topics and their state-of-the-art implementations are addressed. These include

• image representation,
• filtering,
• convolution,
• local image description,
• multi-scale,
• visual words (codebooks),
• matching images
• ...