Visual Learning and Recognition

Class Logistics

  • When : Monday/Wednesday/Friday 12:00 PM - 1:20PM
  • Where : GHC 4307
  • Instructor : Abhinav Gupta
  • Office Hours : By Appointment

Updates

  • 2019/01/14: Class website is online!

Class Overview

Summary: A graduate course in Computer Vision with emphasis on representation and reasoning for large amounts of data (images, videos and associated tags, text, gps-locations etc) toward the ultimate goal of Image Understanding. We will be reading an eclectic mix of classic and recent papers on topics including: Theories of Perception, Mid-level Vision (Grouping, Segmentation, Poselets), Object and Scene Recognition, 3D Scene Understanding, Action Recognition, Contextual Reasoning, Image Parsing, Joint Language and Vision Models, etc. We will be covering a wide range of supervised, semi-supervised and unsupervised approaches for each of the topics above.

Prerequisites: While there are no formal prerequisites, this course assumes familiarity with computer vision (16-720 or similar) and machine learning (10-601 or similar). If you have not taken courses covering this material, consult with the instructor.

People

Abhinav Gupta

Instructor

EDSH 121

Rohit Girdhar

TA

EDSH 224

Kenny Marino

TA

EDSH 222

Chen-Hsuan Lin

TA

EDSH 212

Samantha Powers

TA

EDSH 100


Tao Chen

TA

EDSH 100