Proseminar: Basic Principles of Computer Vision
Nassir Navab,
Andreas Hofhauser, and
Darko Zikic
SWS: 2,
ECTS: 4 Credits
Time: 08 Feb 2006 (Thursday), 10:30-14:00 in the seminar room 03.13.010.
Location: Seminar room 03.13.010
The primary course language is English
Schedule
- 16 Feb 2006 at 10:00. The compulsory preliminary discussion in room 03.13.010.
- Until 01 Apr 2006 : First discussion of the topic with the respective tutor (please contact the tutor for individual date):
- Given literature should be worked through before this meeting and the basics of the subject well understood.
- Prepare also eventual techical and detailed questions regarding the subject so we can discuss them.
- Plan for the talk and paper should be ready before the meeting so it can be discussed.
- Until 24 Apr 2006 : Second discussion with tutor (please contact the tutor for individual date):
- Final versions of talk and presentation are supposed to be ready by now. Send them to the tutor prior to meeting so that they can be discussed at the meeting.
- 01 May 2006 : The very final version of paper and presentation (including eventual changes from the second discussion) is to be mailed to the tutor.
- Presentation Day : Somewhere between 01 and 08 May. We will set the actual date and time in accordance to the students' schedule...
- Presentation: 08 Feb 2006 (Thursday), 10:30-14:00 in the seminar room 03.13.010.
Introduction
The original idea of Computer Vision is to make a computer "see", as we do. During the last few decades, computers really started to see and understand images, since the theoretical background was formulated and realized in sophisticated Computer Vision applications. Computer Vision techniques have found their way into entertainment, television, industry, medicine, broadcasting, and many other fields.
In this Proseminar we will introduce the basics of Computer Vision.
We will start with the basic descriptions of the geometrical entities and transformations as these are the foundations for everything later on.
Then we will discuss the properties of an image and the general principles of the formation of an image. This brings us to the properties and geometry of an off-the-shelf camera. We will look at how such cameras can be calibrated and their images be undistorted, or how two cameras can be combined to a stereo system, which can be used to recover the depth of an arbitrary scene, or to immerse into a scene wearing a "virtual reality helmet" as in computer games. Finally we will go a step further and consider simple image processing techniques such as edge detection or image smoothing. We will also try to give an outlook on further and more sophisticated applications from CV applications from the industry, the connection of CV to Medical Imaging, as well as to Augmented Reality.
Topics
Work in progress. Hence: subject to change.
Registration / Preliminary Discussion
To register for the Proseminar, please send an email to
Darko ().
The compulsory preliminary discussion will take place on thursday, 16 Feb 2006 at 10:00 in room 03.13.010.
Requirements
- the presentation should be about 45min. One session, i.e. presentation + discussion during the presentation should take about an hour.
- the handout of 8-10 pages (in LaTex)
- the outline should be send to the supervisor one month before the presentation
- the presentation and the handout are be finalized and discussed with the supervisor at least one week before the presentation so that eventually changes can be made.
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