>>212202236In my second to last year at the university I took a course named "computer vision". I didn't notice at the time, but the short description was in English. The first two lectures I didn't get a seat in the lecture hall and was kicked out. (Strict mass gathering regulations ever since the deadly Love Parade of 2010.) Why? Because out of nowhere some 80 Indians had manifested themselves and occupied almost of the seats. I had never seen them on campus before.
Anyway, it was the summer semester, the weather got really nice outside, plus the maths got more and more advanced. The further the semester advanced, the less Indians remained. Finally there were only 2 of them in the last lecture.
The professor then said his assistant would offer a voluntary one week workshop. No exam, no credit points, just a chance to apply what we had learned in real life exercises. I went and there were 9 of us, 8 Germans and one foreigner. The foreigner didn't know how to use a German computer keyboard (I'm not kidding) and never reappeard after lunch break on the very first day.
It was an interesting workshop. I got to know Matlab and use it to track moving objects in a film, identify objects that had been scaled and rotated, recognize faces via matrix multiplications and much more.