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Introduction To Computer Vision

The document discusses computer vision and provides examples of current applications including optical character recognition, face detection, 3D reconstruction from images, object recognition in supermarkets and mobile phones, vision-based biometrics, interactive games, vision in space, industrial robots, and medical imaging.

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Introduction To Computer Vision

The document discusses computer vision and provides examples of current applications including optical character recognition, face detection, 3D reconstruction from images, object recognition in supermarkets and mobile phones, vision-based biometrics, interactive games, vision in space, industrial robots, and medical imaging.

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Computer Vision & 3D

Introduction to Computer Vision


Dr Khurram Khurshid

Computer Vision?

Computer Vision?

Computer Vision?

Computer Vision?

Computer Vision?
To describe the world that we see in one or more images and to reconstruct its properties, such as shape, illumination, and color distributions

Scene Completion

[Hays and Efros. Scene Completion Using Millions of Photographs. SIGGRAPH 2007 and CACM October 2008.]

Nearest neighbor scenes from database of 2.3 million photos

Graph cut + Poisson blending

Hot Research

An Empirical Study of Context in Object Detection

Categories of the SUN database

Computer Vision and Nearby Fields


Computer Graphics: Models to Images Comp. Photography: Images to Images Computer Vision: Images to Models

Computer Vision
Make computers understand images and video.
What kind of scene? Where are the cars? How far is the building?

Vision is really hard


Vision is an amazing feat of natural intelligence
Visual cortex occupies about 50% of Macaque brain More human brain devoted to vision than anything else
Is that a queen or a bishop?

Why computer vision matters

Safety

Health

Security

Comfort

Fun

Access

How vision is used now


Examples of state-of-the-art

Some of the following slides by Steve Seitz

Optical character recognition (OCR)


Technology to convert scanned docs to text
If you have a scanner, it probably came with OCR software

Digit recognition, AT&T labs http://www.research.att.com/~yann/

License plate readers


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_plate_recognition

Face detection

Many new digital cameras now detect faces


Canon, Sony, Fuji,

Smile detection

Sony Cyber-shot T70 Digital Still Camera

3D from thousands of images

Building Rome in a Day: Agarwal et al. 2009

Object recognition (in supermarkets)

LaneHawk by EvolutionRobotics A smart camera is flush-mounted in the checkout lane, continuously watching for items. When an item is detected and recognized, the cashier verifies the quantity of items that were found under the basket, and continues to close the transaction. The item can remain under the basket, and with LaneHawk,you are assured to get paid for it

Vision-based biometrics

How the Afghan Girl was Identified by Her Iris Patterns Read the story wikipedia

Login without a password

Fingerprint scanners on many new laptops, other devices

Face recognition systems now beginning to appear more widely


http://www.sensiblevision.com/

Object recognition (in mobile phones)

Point & Find, Nokia Google Goggles

Special effects: shape capture

The Matrix movies, ESC Entertainment, XYZRGB, NRC

Special effects: motion capture

Pirates of the Carribean, Industrial Light and Magic

Sports

Sportvision first down line Nice explanation on www.howstuffworks.com http://www.sportvision.com/video.html

Smart cars

Slide content courtesy of Amnon Shashua

Mobileye
Vision systems currently in high-end BMW, GM, Volvo models By 2010: 70% of car manufacturers.

Google cars

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/science/10google.html?ref=artificialintelligence

Interactive Games: Kinect


Object Recognition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=iv&v=fQ59dXOo63o Mario: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CTJL5lUjHg 3D: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QrnwoO1-8A Robot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8BmgtMKFbY

Vision in space

NASA'S Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this westward view from atop a low plateau where Spirit spent the closing months of 2007.

Vision systems (JPL) used for several tasks


Panorama stitching 3D terrain modeling Obstacle detection, position tracking For more, read Computer Vision on Mars by Matthies et al.

Industrial robots

Vision-guided robots position nut runners on wheels

Mobile robots

NASAs Mars Spirit Rover http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_rover

http://www.robocup.org/

Saxena et al. 2008 STAIR at Stanford

Medical imaging

3D imaging MRI, CT

Image guided surgery Grimson et al., MIT

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