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Introduction to Computer Vision
CS4670, Fall 2010
Time: MWF 10:10am - 11:00am
Place: Hollister 306 (map)
Instructor: Noah Snavely (snavely@cs.cornell.edu)
office: Upson 4157, (617) 255-4820
office hours: Wednesdays 1:30-3pm
TAs: Kevin Matzen (kmatzen@cs.cornell.edu)
office hours: Tuesday 4-5pm, Thursday 2-3pm,
Upson 317
Yin Lou (yinlou@cs.cornell.edu)
office hours: Friday 3-4pm, Upson 4144
Newsgroup: cornell.class.cs4670
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The goal of computer vision is to compute properties of the
three-dimensional world from digital images. Problems in this field
include reconstructing the 3D shape of an environment, determining how
things are moving, and recognizing people and objects and their
activities, all through analysis of images and videos.
The Nokia N900, a Linux-based camera phone with
a 5-megapixel camera, focusable lens, WiFi, and
touchscreen.
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This course will provide an introduction to computer vision,
with topics including image formation, feature detection,
motion estimation, image mosaics, 3D shape reconstruction, and
object and face detection and recognition. Applications of
these techniques include building 3D maps, creating virtual
characters, organizing photo and video databases, human
computer interaction, video surveillance, and automatic
vehicle navigation -- as well as new applications for mobile
devices. This is a project-based course, in which you will
implement several computer vision algorithms and do a final
project on topic of your choice. The projects will center
around computer vision on mobile devices. Nokia has
generously provided us with a number of state-of-the-art
Nokia
N900 camera phones, which we will be using for course
projects (including the final project).
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Prerequisites
This course will be self-contained; students do not need to have
computer vision background. This course will assume some familiarity
with linear algebra. The programming assignments will be given in
C++, so a familiarity with this language (or time and willingness to
pick it up quickly) is essential.
Please send me email or speak to me if you are unsure of whether you can take the course.
Textbook
This course will have readings
from Computer Vision: Algorithms
and Applications (online),
by Richard
Szeliski.
Newsgroup
We'll be using newsgroup for discussion and announcement. The group name is cornell.class.cs4670. You can find instructions for setting up a newsgroup at http://www2.cit.cornell.edu/bearaccess/netnews/thunderbird/.
Thanks to Nokia
and Nokia
Research Center Palo Alto for their generous hardware support
for this course.
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