ComputerVision

CS543/ECE549 UniversityofIllinois Instructors:DerekHoiem,DavidForsyth TA:VarshaHedau

Presenter: Derek Hoiem

Todaysclass
Introductions Introtocomputervision Courselogistics Questions

Introductions

ComputerVision
Makecomputersunderstandimagesand video.
What kind of scene? Where are the cars? How far is the building?

Visionisreallyhard
Visionisanamazingfeatofnatural intelligence
Visualcortexoccupiesabout50%ofMacaquebrain Morehumanbraindevotedtovisionthananythingelse
Is that a queen or a bishop?

Whycomputervisionmatters

Safety

Health

Security

Comfort

Fun

Access

Ridiculouslybriefhistoryofcomputervision
1966:Minsky assignscomputervision asanundergradsummerproject 1960s:interpretationofsynthetic worlds 1970s:someprogressoninterpreting selectedimages 1980s:ANNscomeandgo;shifttoward geometryandincreasedmathematical rigor 1990s:facerecognition;statistical analysisinvogue 2000s:broaderrecognition;large annotateddatasetsavailable;video processingstarts

Guzman 68

Ohta Kanade 78

Turk and Pentland 91

Currentstateoftheart
Someexamplesofwhatcurrentvisionsystems cando

Many of the following slides by Steve Seitz

Earthviewers(3Dmodeling)

Image from Microsofts Virtual Earth (see also: Google Earth)

Photosynth.net

Based on Photo Tourism by Noah Snavely, Steve Seitz, and Rick Szeliski

3Dfrommultipleimages

Building Rome in a Day: Agarwal et al. 2009

3Dfromoneimage

Hoiem Efros Hebert SIGGRAPH 2005

Opticalcharacterrecognition(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

Facedetection

Manynewdigitalcamerasnowdetectfaces
Canon,Sony,Fuji,

Smiledetection?

Sony Cyber-shot T70 Digital Still Camera

Objectrecognition(insupermarkets)

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

Visionbasedbiometrics

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

Loginwithoutapassword

Fingerprint scanners on many new laptops, other devices

Face recognition systems now beginning to appear more widely

http://www.sensiblevision.com/

Objectrecognition(inmobilephones)

Thisisbecomingreal:
Point&Find,Nokia

Specialeffects:shapecapture

The Matrix movies, ESC Entertainment, XYZRGB, NRC

Specialeffects:motioncapture

Pirates of the Carribean, Industrial Light and Magic Click here for interactive demo

Sports

Sportvision first down line Nice explanation on www.howstuffworks.com

Smartcars

Slide content courtesy of Amnon Shashua

Mobileye
VisionsystemscurrentlyinhighendBMW,GM, Volvomodels By2010:70%ofcarmanufacturers.

Visionbasedinteraction(andgames)

Digimask: put your face on a 3D avatar.

Nintendo Wii has camera-based IR tracking built in. See Lees work at CMU on clever tricks on using it to create a multi-touch display!

Game turns moviegoers into Human Joysticks, CNET Camera tracking a crowd, based on this work.

Visioninspace

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.

Industrialrobots

Vision-guided robots position nut runners on wheels

Mobilerobots

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

http://www.robocup.org/

Saxena et al. 2008 STAIR at Stanford

Medicalimaging

3D imaging MRI, CT

Image guided surgery Grimson et al., MIT

Recentnews

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Currentstateoftheart
Youjustsawexamplesofcurrentsystems.
Mostofthesearelessthan5yearsold

Thisisaveryactiveresearcharea,andrapidly changing
Manynewappsinthenext5years

Tolearnmoreaboutvisionapplicationsand companies
DavidLowemaintainsanexcellentoverviewof visioncompanies
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/lowe/vision.html

Courselogistics
Webpage:
http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/homes/dhoiem/courses/vision_spring10/

Attendance Officehours Assignmentsandgrades Finalproject

Whattoexpectfromthiscourse
Broadcoverage(geometry,imageprocessing, recognition,multiview,video) Backgroundtodelvedeeperintoany computervisionrelatedtopic Practicalexperience

Questions