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This course is an introduction to the process of generating a symbolic description of the environment from an image.

FREE
This course includes
Hours of videos

638 years, 9 months

Units & Quizzes

23

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Certificate of Completion

It covers the physics of image formation, image analysis, binary image processing, and filtering. Machine vision has applications in robotics and the intelligent interaction of machines with their environment. Students taking the graduate version complete additional assignments.

Course Currilcum

  • Introduction to Machine Vision Unlimited
  • Image Formation, Perspective Projection, Time Derivative, Motion Field Unlimited
  • Time to Contact, Focus of Expansion, Direct Motion Vision Methods, Noise Gain Unlimited
  • Fixed Optical Flow, Optical Mouse, Constant Brightness Assumption, Closed Form Solution Unlimited
  • TCC and FOR MontiVision Demos, Vanishing Point, Use of VPs in Camera Calibration Unlimited
  • Photometric Stereo, Noise Gain, Error Amplification, Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors Review Unlimited
  • Gradient Space, Reflectance Map, Image Irradiance Equation, Gnomonic Projection Unlimited
  • Shading, Special Cases, Lunar Surface, Scanning Electron Microscope, Green’s Theorem Unlimited
  • Shape from Shading, General Case – From First Order Nonlinear PDE to Five ODEs Unlimited
  • Characteristic Strip Expansion, Shape from Shading, Iterative Solutions Unlimited
  • Edge Detection, Subpixel Position, CORDIC, Line Detection (US 6,408,109) Unlimited
  • Blob Analysis, Binary Image Processing, Green’s Theorem, Derivative and Integral Unlimited
  • Object Detection, Recognition and Pose Determination, PatQuick (US 7,016,539) Unlimited
  • Inspection in PatQuick, Hough Transform, Homography, Position Determination, Multi-Scale Unlimited
  • Alignment, PatMax, Distance Field, Filtering and Sub-Sampling (US 7,065,262) Unlimited
  • Fast Convolution, Low Pass Filter Approximations, Integral Images (US 6,457,032) Unlimited
  • Photogrammetry, Orientation, Axes of Inertia, Symmetry, Orientation Unlimited
  • Rotation and How to Represent It, Unit Quaternions, the Space of Rotations Unlimited
  • Absolute Orientation in Closed Form, Outliers and Robustness, RANSAC Unlimited
  • Space of Rotations, Regular Tessellations, Critical Surfaces, Binocular Stereo Unlimited
  • Relative Orientation, Binocular Stereo, Structure, Quadrics, Calibration, Reprojection Unlimited
  • Exterior Orientation, Recovering Position & Orientation, Bundle Adjustment, Object Shape Unlimited
  • Gaussian Image, Solids of Revolution, Direction Histograms, Regular Polyhedra Unlimited