Visual Recognition
Winter 2012
Overview Developing autonomous systems that are able to assist us in everydays tasks is one of the grand challenges in modern computer science. While a variety of novel sensors have been developed in the past few years, in this class we will focus on the extraction of this knowledge from visual information alone. One of the most remarkable examples of successful recognition systems is our visual system, which is able to extract high-level information from very noisy and ambiguous data. Unfortunately, despite decades of research efforts, machines are still way below human performance. In this class we will study why this is the case. The goal of this graduate class is to understand the different visual recognition tasks as well as the techniques employed to solve them. A strong component of the course will be statistical learning as it plays a key role in almost every modern visual recognition system. We will cover all stages of the recognition pipeline: low-level (e.g., features), mid-level (e.g., segmentation) as well as high-level reasoning (e.g., scene understanding). Knowledge of machine learning and computer vision is not required, but highly recommended. The theoretical aspects of visual recognition will be covered during the lectures. The class will have a strong practical component, as the students will build the different recognition components during the homework sessions. |
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General information Lecture: Tuesday and Thursday 10:30 - 11:50 |
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