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CS280: Computer Vision
 
Computer Science Division
University of California Berkeley

Location: 306 SODA Hall

Time: Wednesday & Friday, 10:30AM - 12:00PM

Previous sites: http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs280/archives.html

INSTRUCTOR: Prof. Alyosha Efros
INSTRUCTOR: Prof. Jitendra Malik
INSTRUCTOR: Prof. Stella Yu, OH: Wed. 12-1p, Soda 329
GSI: Pulkit Agrawal, OH: Fri. 9:30a-10:30a, Soda 651
GSI: Yi Wu, OH: Fri. 2-3p, Cory 367 (Start from Feb 2.)
UNITS: 3
SEMESTER: Spring 2018

COURSE OVERVIEW
Syllabus

Computer vision seeks to develop algorithms that replicate one of the most amazing capabilities ofthe human brain – inferring properties of the external world purely by means of the light reflectedfrom various objects to the eyes. We can determine how far away these objects are, how they areoriented with respect to us, and in relationship to various other objects. We reliably guess theircolors and textures, and we can recognize them - this is a chair, this is my dog Fido, this is a pictureof Bill Clinton smiling. We can segment out regions of space corresponding to particular objectsand track them over time, such as a basketball player weaving through the court.

In this course, we will study the concepts and algorithms behind some of the remarkable suc-cesses of computer vision – capabilities such as face detection, handwritten digit recognition, re-constructing three-dimensional models of cities, automated monitoring of activities, segmentingout organs or tissues in biological images, and sensing for control of robots. We will build thisup from fundamentals – an understanding of the geometry and radiometry of image formation,core image processing operations, as well as tools from statistical machine learning. On completingthis course a student would understand the key ideas behind the leading techniques for the mainproblems of computer vision - reconstruction, recognition and segmentation – and have a sense ofwhat computers today can or can not do.
 

TOPICS TO BE COVERED

  • Introduction - The Three R's - Recognition, Reconstruction, Reorganization
  • Static Perspective - the pinhole camera model
  • Transformations - rotation, translation, affine and projective
  • Dynamic perspective and optical flow
  • Radiometry of image formation
  • Basic image processing operations - filters, features and flow
  • Biological visual processing - retina, V1 and beyond
  • The feedforward model of visual processing - convolutional networks
  • Object recognition case study - Identifying digits with multiple approaches
  • Recognizing objects in scene - sliding windows and object proposals.
  • Feature Histograms
  • Convolutional Neural Network (ConvNet) based approaches to visual recognition of objects and scenes
  • Attributes, pose and actions
  • Controur detection and bottom-up segmentation, Gestalt grouping heuristics
  • Semantic Segmentations - instance segmentation and pixel classification
  • 3D reconstruction from multiple views
  • 3D reconstruction from pictorial cues
  • Scene understanding from RGBD images
  • Face Recognition
  • Video Analysis

Homeworks

  • Transformation, package, due on Feb 4, 2018
  • Filter and Edget Dectection, package, due on Mar 6, 2018
  • Deep Learning, TBA (tentatively release on Mar 7)
  • 3D Reconstruction, TBA
  • TBD

  

COURSE MATERIAL

Lectures

Material

Lecture 1: Introduction


 

Lecture 2: Fundamentals of Image Formation (Static Perspective)


 

Lecture 3,4: Transformation


 

Lecture 5: Dynamic Perspective and Optical Flow


 

Lecture 6: Radiometry of Image Formation


 

Lecture 7: Image Processing


 

Lecture 8: Frequency and Color


 

Lecture 9,10: Edge, Templates and Textures