Camera and Imaging
First Principles of Computer Vision,
This course covers the fundamentals of imaging – the creation of an image that is ready for consumption or processing by a human or a machine. Imaging has a long history, spanning several centuries. But the advances made in the last three decades have revolutionized the camera and dramatically improved the robustness and accuracy of computer vision systems. We describe the fundamentals of imaging, as well as recent innovations in imaging that have had a profound impact on computer vision. This course starts with examining how an image is formed using a lens camera. We explore the optical characteristics of a camera such as its magnification, F-number, depth of field and field of view. Next, we describe how solid-state image sensors (CCD and CMOS) record images, and the key properties of an image sensor such as its resolution, noise characteristics and dynamic range. We describe how image sensors can be used to sense color as well as capture images with high dynamic range. In certain structured environments, an image can be thresholded to produce a binary image from which various geometric properties of objects can be computed and used for recognizing and locating objects. Finally, we present the fundamentals of image processing – the development of computational tools to process a captured image to make it cleaner (denoising, deblurring, etc.) and easier for computer vision systems to analyze (linear and non-linear image filtering methods).
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Length | 7 weeks |
Effort | 4-6 hours/week |
Starts | Jul 3 (43 weeks ago) |
Cost | $49 |
From | Columbia University via Coursera |
Instructor | Shree Nayar |
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Language | English |
Subjects | Programming |
Tags | Computer Science Algorithms |
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Rating | Not enough ratings |
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Length | 7 weeks |
Effort | 4-6 hours/week |
Starts | Jul 3 (43 weeks ago) |
Cost | $49 |
From | Columbia University via Coursera |
Instructor | Shree Nayar |
Download Videos | On all desktop and mobile devices |
Language | English |
Subjects | Programming |
Tags | Computer Science Algorithms |
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