IMAGE AND VIDEO UNDERSTANDING

Academic year
2018/2019 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
IMAGE AND VIDEO UNDERSTANDING
Course code
CM0524 (AF:283228 AR:161008)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
Educational sector code
INF/01
Period
1st Semester
Course year
1
Where
VENEZIA
The course aims at introducing the student to the algorithms and the main applications of image and video understanding.
The student is expected to be familiar with the basic concepts of calculus and linear algebra.
Detection and Recognition
- Face detection and recognition
- Pedestrian detection
- Instance recognition
- Category recognition

Video understanding
- Tracking
- Person re-identification

Applications
- R. Szeliski, Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications. Springer (2011)
- I. Goodfellow, Y. Bengio, A. Courville, Deep Learning, MIT Press (2016)
Powerpoint presentations and chalk talk.
English
To favor an "active" appraoch to the study of the topics covered in the classes, students will be asked to develop a simple project which will be discussed during the oral examination.
oral
This programme is provisional and there could still be changes in its contents.
Last update of the programme: 31/01/2019