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This course fills up quickly, if you do not get a spot, the wait list will open. In the case that a spot becomes available, Student Services will contact you. Make sure you have submitted your NDO application and required documents to be considered.

Computer Vision is a dynamic and rapidly growing field with countless high-profile applications that have been developed in recent years. The potential uses are diverse, and its integration with cutting edge research has already been validated with self-driving cars, facial recognition, 3D reconstructions, photo search and augmented reality. Artificial Intelligence has become a fundamental component of everyday technology, and visual recognition is a key aspect of that.  It is a valuable tool for interpreting the wealth of visual data that surrounds us and on a scale impossible with natural vision.

This course covers the tasks and systems at the core of visual recognition with a detailed exploration of deep learning architectures. While there will be a brief introduction to computer vision and frameworks, such as Caffe, Torch, Theano and TensorFlow, the focus will be learning end-to-end models, particularly for image classification. Students will learn to implement, train and debug their own neural networks as well as gain a detailed understanding of cutting-edge research in computer vision.

The final assignment will include training a multi-million parameter convolutional neural network and applying it on the largest image classification dataset (ImageNet).

Prerequisites

Proficiency in Python; familiarity with C/C++; CS131 and CS229 or equivalents; Math21 or equivalent, linear algebra.

Topics include

  • End-to-end models
  • Image classification, localization and detection
  • Implementation, training and debugging
  • Learning algorithms, such as backpropagation
  • Long Short Term Memory (LSTM)
  • Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN)
  • Supervised and unsupervised learning

Course Availability

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