Wintersemester

Computer Vision (VU)

Course Details

Lecturer

Robert Sablatnig
Marco Peer

LVA-Nr.

183.585

Typ

Vorlesung mit Übung (VU)

Link

TISS

Dates

  • Computer Vision (VU) is planned to be in presence in WS2023/2024. The exercise part will mainly take place virtually.
  • A timetable for orientation of the lecture part is provided here.
  • Exercise part: Tutoring hours TH 9:00 – 11:00 and 11:00-13:00 in a 2-week rhythm, see the schedule in the TUWEL course.

Location

  • Lecture part: Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, 15:00 – 17:00  in EI 5 Hochenegg HS.
  • Exercise part – tutor hours: virtual via Zoom ( 1 registration per group via TUWEL required)
  • Two submission talks via Zoom

The exercise part will be handled via the associated TUWEL course (This will be visible to students at the beginning of October). In the semester, various tasks will be solved in Python for the exercise part in groups of 3. For support, there will be supervised practice times, which will take place 6x in the semester (approximately every 2 weeks). Please register in TUWEL for a group of 3.  Attendance is compulsory only for the 1st session on 11.10.2023.

Lecture exam: Registration in TISS

 


Computers are still limited in their ability to interact with the world and with human users because they cannot “see.” When dealing with computer vision, we must also try to understand the world’s physics, for example, how light reflects off surfaces, how objects move, and how all of this information is projected onto an image through the camera’s optics. It also requires to develop algorithms that reconstruct some of these physical properties from one or more images. This “inverse” problem is a big puzzle. Information is lost when the three-dimensional world is projected onto a two-dimensional image, so how do we recover this information from an image? This course shows the fundamental algorithms that make this goal achievable and develops methods for solving various inverse problems. But vision is more than just reconstructing the 3D world from 2D images, it also deals with extracting semantics. The course also demonstrates basic machine learning and probabilistic inference methods to solve this problem.

Even if you do not plan to study computer vision further, the basic tools and techniques used there can be useful in many other areas. For all those who want to learn more about computer vision, this course provides a reasonable basis for further study.

Content:

  • A perspective on many areas of current computer vision research
  • An implementation of programming tasks to gain practical experience with working with images and image sequences
  • The application of linear algebra and calculus for something you can use in the real world

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