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Course Description

Ever wonder how robots can navigate space and perform duties, how search engines can index billions of images and videos, how algorithms can diagnose medical images for diseases, how self-driving cars can see and drive safely or how instagram creates filters or snapchat creates masks? In this class, we will explore all of these technologies and learn to prototype them. Lying in the heart of these modern AI applications are computer vision technologies that can perceive, understand and reconstruct the complex visual world. Computer Vision is one of the fastest growing and most exciting AI disciplines in today’s academia and industry. This 10-week course is designed to open the doors for students who are interested in learning about the fundamental principles and important applications of computer vision. We will expose students to a number of real-world applications that are important to our daily lives. More importantly, we will guide students through a series of well designed projects such that they will get to implement a few interesting and cutting-edge computer vision algorithms.

Instructors

Juan Carlos Niebles
Adrien Gaidon

Teaching Assistants

Ian Huang
Shruti Sridhar
Ayush Singla
Abi Lopez

General Information


Class Time and Location

 Lectures

Monday / Wednesday
3:00 - 4:20PM
@Building 320, Rm 105

Recitations*

TBD

*See syllabus for dates


Syllabus

Link to details on when assignments are due and what will be taught every day.


Textbook

Recommended but not required: Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications, 2nd ed.
Richard Szeliski
Free PDF Download


Assignments

Details on how to work on and submit each assignment.

Office Hours

Juan Carlos Niebles

In person after class +

Book in advance Selected Thursdays 9:00AM
Selected Fridays 10:00AM
@Zoom

Adrien Gaidon

In person after class +

Book in advance

Ian Huang

Tuesdays 2:30-4:30pm
Thursdays 2:30-4:30pm
@Zoom

Shruti Sridhar

Tuesdays 5-7 pm
Thursdays 5-7 pm
@Zoom

Ayush Singla

Mondays 10:30am-12:30pm
Wednesdays 10:30am-12:30pm
Held in-person in Room Econ 206 @ Landau

Abi Lopez

Tuesdays 10am-12pm
Thursdays 10am-12pm
@Zoom

Websites you should sign up for.


Course Discussions

Please use Ed to ask questions you have throughout the course.


Class notes

Here is the link to the repository of past notes.


Gradescope

Submit your assignment notebooks and PDFs to Gradescope. The email associated with your Canvas account will be automatically added.

Grading Policy

Summary Deliverables will be due on Tuesdays at 11:59pm (PT)

Late policy

You will have a total of 7 late days that you can use in whichever assignments you prefer. There is a limit of 3 late days used per assignment, which means that the hard deadline for each assignment is on Friday at 11:59pm. Homeworks will still be accepted after your 7 late days have been used, but a 25% penalty will be applied for each additional late day.

FAQ

Q: Who should I contact for OAE letter and request?

A: For OAE letters and requests, please email our head TA TBD.

Prerequisites


Proficiency in Python (NumPy)

All class assignments will be in Python (with numpy.) Please review this NumPy tutorial to help with your assignments.


Linear Algebra (e.g. MATH 51)

We will use matrix transpose, inverse, rotation, translation and other algebraic operations with matrix expressions. If you are a quick learner you should be able to learn them during the class if you haven’t yet. We will have review sessions and provide review materials.


Calculus (e.g. MATH 19 or 41)

You’ll need to be able to take a derivative, and maximize a function by finding where the derivative=0.


Probability and Statistics (e.g. CS 109)

You should know basics of probabilities, gaussian distributions, mean, standard deviation, etc.