High-Level Computer Vision


Overview
This course will cover essential techniques for high-level computer vision. These techniques facilitate semantic interpretation of visual data, as it is required for a broad range of applications like robotics, driver assistance, multi-media retrieval, surveillance etc. In this area, the recognition and detection of objects, activities and visual categories have seen dramatic progress over the last decade. We will discuss the methods that have lead to state-of-the-art performance in this area and provide the opportunity to gather hands-on experience with these techniques.
Course Information
Semester: SS
Year: 2021
Lecture start: Wednesday April 14
Tutorial start: Monday April 19
Time:
lecture: Wednesdays 10:00 - 12:00 (start at 10:15)
tutorial: Mondays 10:00 - 12:00
Location: announced on the email list
Registration: https://cms.sic.saarland/hlcvss21/students/register
or send an email with your matriculation number and full name to yaoyao.liu[at]mpi-inf.mpg.de with [hlcv-subscribe] in the subject.
Exam: August 11, September 8, October 6, October 7
Exam Registration: https://cms.sic.saarland/hlcvss21/4/Oral_Exam_Information
Lecturer(s): Prof. Dr. Bernt Schiele
TA(s): Farzaneh Rezaeianaran (office hour: Wednesday 9 am - 10 am, contact by email frezaeia[at]mpi-inf.mpg.de)
Yaoyao Liu (office hour: Tuesday 9 am - 10 am, contact by email yaoyao.liu[at]mpi-inf.mpg.de)
You may send emails to both TAs using this mailing list: hlcv-ss21@lists.mpi-inf.mpg.de
Literature:
- "Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications" by Richard Szeliski (in particular chapter on image formation)
- Mikolajcyk, Schmid: A Performance Evaluation of Local Descriptors, TPAMI, 2005
- Boiman, Shechtman, Irani: A Performance Evaluation of Local Descriptors, CVPR, 2008
- Gehler, Nowozin: On feature combination for multi class object classification, ICCV, 2009
- Krizhevsky, Sutskever, Hinton: ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Networks, NIPS, 2012
- "Pattern recognition and machine learning" by Christopher M. Bishop
- "Computer vision" by David A. Forsyth and Jean Ponce