What is computer security? What is the history of computer security? Where does computer security come from? Why do we need computer security?

Security is about the protection of assets, computer security deal with the protection of IT assets.

SIFT stands for Scale Invariant Feature Transform. It is an algorithm proposed in 2004 to transform image data into scale-invariant coordinates relative to local features. It is widely used in pose estimation, 3D reconstruction, object recognition and image retrieval

Introduce the contributors for this series of notes

Summarise the abbreviations used in this course.