I took both computer vision classes offered at Georgia Tech: Low Level Vision and High Level Vison. Both are taught by Irfan Essa. In each class I chose the task of recognizing the letters on a Scrabble board as my project. For Low Level Vision, I used simple template matching. For High Level Vision, I implemented the "Eigenfaces" paper by Turk and Pentland. Hence, Eigen Scrabble. Other smaller projects for these classes are ones using active contours (or snakes), using laplacian pyramids to blend images, and finding the vowels in an image of text using morphological operators. Below are links to each of these projects.
If you have any questions about these projects, please send me email.