Sobel Edge Detection

Rust is a systems language pursuing the trifecta: safety, concurrency, and speed. This makes it well suited to machine learning and data science tasks. Rust experience will not be required, only existing programming experience.

We'll spend half the session on a with an introduction to Rust and the rest using functional programming style to develop a machine learning primitive called Convolve which can be used for many tasks including edge detection, sharpening, blur and more.

Our main goal will be the Sobel operator. In a Sobel operator pixels in an image are 'convolved' with the Sobel kernel to produce an output that highlights edges.

Convolution is an incredibly common machine learning operation and maybe you'll walk away understanding a little more about whats going on in convolutional neural networks.