Lecture 1

Introduction to Computer vision

Visual Understanding

RGB image (intensity of each channel) function -> Figure skating

What is computer vision?
high-level understanding from digital images or videos

Early works in computer vision

(1) Object Recognition
object classification, generic object detection, semantic segmentation, object instance segmentation

(2) Face Detection & Recognition

(3) 3D Reconstruction

Before Deep learning Revolution

neural network ideas proposed -> back propagation -> big data + Gpu