Introduction to Computer Vision

Introduction to Computer Vision

Ronen Basri, Michal Irani, Shimon Ullman

Teaching AssistantsUri Patish

Alon FaktorAmir Rosenfeld

Misc... Course website – look under: www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~vision

To be added to course mailing-list: Send email to Uri Patish, Alon Faktor, Amir Rosenfeld: <[email protected]> <[email protected]><[email protected]>

Vision & Robotics Seminar (not for credit): Thursdays at 12:00-13:00 (Ziskind 1)

Send email to Amir Gonen: <[email protected]>

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

Topics covered

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

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Panoramic Mosaic ImageOriginal video clip

Generated Mosaic image

Original

Outliers

Original

Synthesized

Video Removal

Photometric Stereo

Photometric Stereo