[Learning Notes] CS131 computer Vision:foundations and Applications:lecture 1 Course Introduction

Course Outline: http://vision.stanford.edu/teaching/cs131_fall1718/syllabus.html

Course Orientation:

Course Crossover:

What is (computer) vision?:

1. A scientific field that extracts information out of digital images.

2. Building algorithms that can is understand the contnent of image and use it for other applications.

Vision:sensing device + Interpreting device

In the first part, cameras is better than humans, they can see far away and see more information, in ther second part, C Omputer vision lags behind human.

The task of computer vision:

Bridge the gap between pixels and meaning

Why computer vision was so hard?

Because there is a huge gap between pixels and meaning.

Original of computer vision:

What kind of information can we have with draw from a imgae?

• 3d matrix
• Semantic information

Breath and Depth

[Learning Notes] CS131 computer vision:foundations and Applications:lecture 1 Course introduction