Section 1: Perception

Commentary

Section Goals

• To introduce concepts and methods about image and computer vision.

Learning Objectives

Learning Objective 1

• Outline the methods of image formation and processing.
• Explain how to extract three-dimensional information, such as motion, binocular stereopsis, textual gradients, shading, and contour.
• Describe the basic methods of object recognition, and name the applications motivating this type of research.

Objective Readings

Required readings:

Reading topics:

Perception (see Chapter 24 of AIMA3ed)

Objective Activities

• Explore the Internet to find three papers about computer vision that are at your level of understanding, and discuss them in the online course conference.