Introduction to Computer Vision

Introduction to Computer Vision

Ronen Basri, Michal Irani, Shimon Ullman

Primary Teaching Assistants

Alon Faktor

Ofer Bartal

Misc... Course website – look under:

http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~vision/courses/2011_2/index.html

To be added to course mailing-list: http://www.weizmann.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/vision_course_12

Primary Teaching Assistants:Alon Faktor or Ofer Bartal: <alon.faktor@weizmann.ac.il> <ofer.bartal@weizmann.ac.il>

Vision & Robotics Seminar (not for credit):

Thursdays at 12:00-13:00 (Ziskind 1)

Send email to Amir Gonen: <amir.gonen@weizmann.ac.il>

Applications:- Manufacturing and inspection; QA- Robot navigation- Autonomous vehicles- Guiding tools for blind- Security and monitoring- Object/face recognition; OCR.- Medical Applications- Visualization; NVS- Visual communication- Digital libraries and video search- Video manipulation and editing

How is an image formed? (geometry and photometry)

How is an image represented?

What kind of operations can we apply to images?

What do images tell us about the world? (analysis & interpretation)

Lessons 1 Image formation

Lesson 2 Human Vision

Lessons 3-4 Fourier and Applications

Tentative Schedule

Lessons 8-9 Motion and video analysis

Lesson 10 Lighting / Photometry

Lesson 11-12 Object Recognition

2-3 programming exercises (MATLAB) -- CAN SUBMIT IN PAIRS

2-3 theoretical exercises -- MUST SUBMIT INDIVIDUALLY

EXAM

Lesson 5-7 Geometry, Stereo, 3D Structure

Faculty Trip…?

Panoramic Mosaic ImageOriginal video clip

Generated Mosaic image

Original

Outliers

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Synthesized

Video Removal

Photometric Stereo

Photometric Stereo