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Introduction To Computer Vision

This document provides an introduction to computer vision. It discusses what computer vision is, including understanding images through tasks like classification, recognition and detection. It notes that understanding images is difficult due to various challenges like viewpoints, illuminations, scales, deformations and occlusions. The document also provides an overview of the course, including that it will cover vision topics and the use of Matlab. Grading will be based on exercises and a final project.

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Introduction To Computer Vision

This document provides an introduction to computer vision. It discusses what computer vision is, including understanding images through tasks like classification, recognition and detection. It notes that understanding images is difficult due to various challenges like viewpoints, illuminations, scales, deformations and occlusions. The document also provides an overview of the course, including that it will cover vision topics and the use of Matlab. Grading will be based on exercises and a final project.

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Introduction to Computer Vision

Lecture 1: Introduction

Today
Understand what is Computer Vision Course overview Introduction to Matlab

What is computer Vision?

Source: Fei Fei Li

Understanding?

Understanding

Understanding

Classification

Recognition (Faces!)

Slide credit: Yael moses

Why understanding is a hard task?

Viewpoints

Illuminations

Scale

Deformations

Occlusions

Background

Motion

Vision in the real world

Special effects

Face detection: A standard

Smile Detection!

Iris recognition

Login!

Face recognition systems now beginning to appear more widely


http://www.sensiblevision.com/

Mobile: Google Goggles

MobileEye

Sport

Sportvision first down line Nice explanation on www.howstuffworks.com


http://www.sportvision.com/video.html

Kinect

Course Overview
Grading policy:
2-4 exercises (50%) Final project (50%)

Course structure
Vision Topics Matlab

An Image
A set of pixels with location Computer description: A matrix Different types of images:
Black & White (1bit) Grey-scale (8bit) Color (8bit x 3)

An image

A color image

Slide credit: Yael moses

Image Edges

How to detect edges?


First derivative Second derivative

Noise
Physical measurements = noise Smoothing

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