Schedule

Lecture Playlist

History of CV

  • Hubel and Wiesel 1959: cells in hirearchical system, receptors
  • Larry Roberts, 1963: can we understand the shave and edges of a picture
  • How we understand the image
  • 从 3D 世界通过 2D 图像来理解 ill-posed problem multiple eyes
  • language is 1D sequential 我们可以模拟,但是图像是完全不同的问题
  • Recognition via Parts (1970s)
  • Edge Detection (1980s) as digital image appeared
  • AI winter
  • human ability in reconizing objects, scene, faces, etc
  • Object Recognition
  • Face Recognition
  • Internet can proliferate data, booming the study
  • artificial neuron
  • handmade neuron layers
  • backpropagation
  • convolutional neural network
  • ImageNet Challenge
  • AlexNet
  • deep learning explosion
  • AI global warming period

Porblems:

  • harmful stereotypes
  • affect people’s lives
  • save lives

Deep Learning Basics

image classification

linear classifier: find the hyperplane that seperate different groups.

how to model complex patterns.

nereual networks to model non-linear function

Tasks of CV

  • classification
  • semantic segmentation
  • object detection
  • instance segmentation
  • video classification
  • multimodal video understanding
  • visualization

methods:

  • CNN
  • Self-supervised learning
  • Generative modeling
  • vision language model
  • 3d vision

Glossary

  • Cambrian Explosion
  • pinhole
  • obscura
  • apparatus
  • overoptimistic
  • digress
  • seminal
  • photon
  • wetware
  • proliferate
  • engineering feat 工程壮举
  • watershed moment
  • fanfare
  • abysmal
  • nuanced
  • podium
  • nuts and bults