1. Introduction to Computer Vision Ronen Basri, Michal Irani, Shimon Ullman Teaching Assistants Uri Patish Alon Faktor Amir Rosenfeld

2. Misc...  Course website – look under: www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~vision  To be added to course mailing-list: Send email to Uri Patish, Alon Faktor, Amir Rosenfeld:  Vision & Robotics Seminar (not for credit): Thursdays at 12:00-13:00 (Ziskind 1) Send email to Amir Gonen:

3. Applications: - Manufacturing and inspection; QA - Robot navigation - Autonomous vehicles - Guiding tools for blind - Security and monitoring - Object/face recognition; OCR. - Medical Applications - Visualization; NVS - Visual communication - Digital libraries and video search - Video manipulation and editing  How is an image formed? (geometry and photometry)  How is an image represented?  What kind of operations can we apply to images?  What do images tell us about the world? (analysis & interpretation)

4. Lessons 1 Image formation Lesson 2 Human Vision Lessons 3-4 Fourier and Applications Topics covered Lessons 8-9 Motion and video analysis Lesson 10 Lighting / Photometry Lesson 11-12 Object Recognition  2-3 programming exercises (MATLAB) -- CAN SUBMIT IN PAIRS  2-3 theoretical exercises -- MUST SUBMIT INDIVIDUALLY  EXAM Lesson 5-7 Geometry, Stereo, 3D Structure

6. Panoramic Mosaic Image Original video clip Generated Mosaic image

7. Original Outliers Original Synthesized Video Removal

8. Photometric Stereo