Computer Vision Overview
Marc SchlosbergCS 175 – Spring 2015
Why study Computer Vision?
• Images and movies are everywhere• Fast-growing collection of useful applications– building representations of the 3D world from pictures– automated surveillance (who’s doing what)– movie post-processing– face finding
• Various deep and attractive scientific mysteries– how does object recognition work?
• Greater understanding of human vision
Building Rome in a Day
Photo UncropProfessor Furukawa - Washington University in St. Louis“The goal is to produce a larger FOV image of the scene captured in your photo, leveraging other photos of the same scene from the Internet (captured at different times by other people).”
Afghan Girl - Wikipedia
http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/question225.htm
YouTube
Wide-Area Surveillance & Image Stitching
Other Cool Thingshttp://web.engr.illinois.edu/~dhoiem/projects/popup/index.htmlhttp://grail.cs.washington.edu/malkovich/http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~alexco/SelectPubs/Research_Pages/Image-Based_Remodeling.html