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Computer Vision: From Recognition To Geometry

This document provides an overview of a computer vision course being taught at National Taiwan University in Fall 2019. The course will cover topics ranging from classical computer vision methods to modern deep learning techniques. It will discuss computer vision tasks from recognition to geometry reconstruction. The course will be graded based on four homework assignments, class participation, and a final group project. Some applications of computer vision discussed include object detection, face recognition, motion capture, medical imaging, and autonomous vehicles.

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Computer Vision: From Recognition To Geometry

This document provides an overview of a computer vision course being taught at National Taiwan University in Fall 2019. The course will cover topics ranging from classical computer vision methods to modern deep learning techniques. It will discuss computer vision tasks from recognition to geometry reconstruction. The course will be graded based on four homework assignments, class participation, and a final group project. Some applications of computer vision discussed include object detection, face recognition, motion capture, medical imaging, and autonomous vehicles.

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Computer Vision: from

Recognition to Geometry
Shao-Yi Chien
Yu-Chiang Frank Wang
Department of Electrical Engineering
National Taiwan University

Fall 2019
Computer Vision
• Describe the world that the computer see in one or
more images and to reconstruct its properties, such
as shape, illumination, and color distribution
• Is it hard? An inverse problem
Computer Vision

[R. C. James]
Computer Vision
Wide Applications of
Computer Vision
• Optical character recognition (OCR)

Digit recognition, AT&T labs License plate readers


http://www.research.att.com/~yann/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_plate_recognition
Wide Applications of
Computer Vision
• Face detection: in all digital cameras and smart phones
Wide Applications of
Computer Vision
• Face detection: in all digital cameras and smart phones

[Sony]
Wide Applications of
Computer Vision
• Iris recognition
(Vision-based biometrics)

“How the Afghan Girl was Identified by Her Iris Patterns” Read the story
Wide Applications of
Computer Vision
• Object recognition

[Girod et al. 2011]

[slyce.it]
Wide Applications of
Computer Vision
• Shape capture

The Matrix movies, ESC Entertainment, XYZRGB, NRC


Wide Applications of
Computer Vision
• Motion capture

Pirates of the Carribean,


Industrial Light and Magic
Wide Applications of
Computer Vision
• Computer vision in sports

Intel: freeD technology

Hawk-Eye: helping/improving referee decisions


Wide Applications of
Computer Vision
• Smart cars: ADAS

[Intel Mobileye]
Wide Applications of
Computer Vision
• Surveillance system

Ref: Chih-Wei Wu, Meng-Ting Zhong, Yu Tsao, Shao-Wen Yang, Yen-Kuang Chen, and
Shao-Yi Chien, "Track-clustering Error Evaluation for Track-based Multi-camera
Tracking System Employing Human Re-identification," CVPR 2016 Workshop.
Wide Applications of
Computer Vision
• Vision-based interaction

[Microsoft Xbox]
Wide Applications of
Computer Vision
Wide Applications of
Computer Vision
• Robotics

NASA’s Mars Spirit Rover http://www.robocup.org/


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_rover
Wide Applications of
Computer Vision
• Medical image

Image guided surgery


3D imaging
Grimson et al., MIT
MRI, CT
Important Near-Future
Applications
• AR/VR
• Autonomous vehicle
• Robot
• IoT: AIoT (AI+IoT), IoVT (Internet-of-Video-Things)
• Medical imaging
• Large-scale video analysis
• Computational photography/image synthesis
• Industrial automation
•…
Related Fields
Digital Image Processing
(Computational photography) Computer Geometry (3D)
Vision Shape
Images
(2D)
Photometry
Computer
Graphics Appearance

• The boundaries between digital image


processing/computer vision/computer graphics
become vague nowadays
About this Course…
• Provide a comprehensive introduction to the field of
computer vision (CV)
• From classical methods to deep learning based methods
• From recognition to geometry
• No experiences in CV and image process are required
• The two courses, Computer Vision and Deep Learning
for Computer Vision, can give you a complete view of
modern CV techniques
• Grading
• Four homeworks: 60%
• Class/talk participation: 10%
• Group final project: 30%
Course Website
• Course website
• http://media.ee.ntu.edu.tw/courses/cv/19F/

• TA
•
• MD-431
• jackieliu@media.ee.ntu.edu.tw
• Will lead TA teams for each homework
(Tentative) Schedule: May be Modified…
Week Date Topic
1 9/11 Introduction to human vision systems
2 9/18 Camera basic, image formation and basic Image processing
3 9/25 Segmentation
4 10/2 Machine learning basics
5 10/9 Deep learning basics
6 10/16 Recognition
7 10/23 Feature detection and matching
8 10/30 Projective Geometry
9 11/6 Estimation of Transformations
10 11/13 Single Camera Geometry/Camera calibration
11 11/20 Two-View Geometry
12 11/27 Dense motion estimation/stereo
13 12/4 Structure from motion
14 12/11 3D reconstruction/depth sensing
15 12/18 Optical flow + object tracking
16 12/25 Advanced topics in CV
17 1/1
18 1/8 CES
19 1/17 Final Project
Homeworks
• Four assignments:
• HW1: Image filters
• HW2: Detection or recognition
• HW3: Pose estimation
• HW4: Stereo matching
• Official language is Python
• Lab0: Python and basic image processing
• 9/19 18:30--20:00 @ EEII-143
Final Project
• Will have one or two problems/challenges
• Each team should have 3—4 members
• Project may be supported by industry with awards
• Evaluated by professor, TAs, guest judges from
industry, and you (peer review)!
• The problems/challenges will be announced around
the week of mid exam
Reference Materials
• Reference books

http://szeliski.org/Book/

• And papers in CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, BMVC, WACV,


ACCV, ….

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