Computer Vision & 3D
Introduction to Computer Vision
Dr Khurram Khurshid
Computer Vision?
Computer Vision?
Computer Vision?
Computer Vision?
Computer Vision?
To describe the world that we see in one or more images and to reconstruct its properties, such as shape, illumination, and color distributions
Scene Completion
[Hays and Efros. Scene Completion Using Millions of Photographs. SIGGRAPH 2007 and CACM October 2008.]
Nearest neighbor scenes from database of 2.3 million photos
Graph cut + Poisson blending
Hot Research
An Empirical Study of Context in Object Detection
Categories of the SUN database
Computer Vision and Nearby Fields
Computer Graphics: Models to Images Comp. Photography: Images to Images Computer Vision: Images to Models
Computer Vision
Make computers understand images and video.
What kind of scene? Where are the cars? How far is the building?
Vision is really hard
Vision is an amazing feat of natural intelligence
Visual cortex occupies about 50% of Macaque brain More human brain devoted to vision than anything else
Is that a queen or a bishop?
Why computer vision matters
Safety
Health
Security
Comfort
Fun
Access
How vision is used now
Examples of state-of-the-art
Some of the following slides by Steve Seitz
Optical character recognition (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
Face detection
Many new digital cameras now detect faces
Canon, Sony, Fuji,
Smile detection
Sony Cyber-shot T70 Digital Still Camera
3D from thousands of images
Building Rome in a Day: Agarwal et al. 2009
Object recognition (in supermarkets)
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
Vision-based biometrics
How the Afghan Girl was Identified by Her Iris Patterns Read the story wikipedia
Login without a password
Fingerprint scanners on many new laptops, other devices
Face recognition systems now beginning to appear more widely
http://www.sensiblevision.com/
Object recognition (in mobile phones)
Point & Find, Nokia Google Goggles
Special effects: shape capture
The Matrix movies, ESC Entertainment, XYZRGB, NRC
Special effects: motion capture
Pirates of the Carribean, Industrial Light and Magic
Sports
Sportvision first down line Nice explanation on www.howstuffworks.com http://www.sportvision.com/video.html
Smart cars
Slide content courtesy of Amnon Shashua
Mobileye
Vision systems currently in high-end BMW, GM, Volvo models By 2010: 70% of car manufacturers.
Google cars
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/science/10google.html?ref=artificialintelligence
Interactive Games: Kinect
Object Recognition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=iv&v=fQ59dXOo63o Mario: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CTJL5lUjHg 3D: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QrnwoO1-8A Robot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8BmgtMKFbY
Vision in space
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.
Industrial robots
Vision-guided robots position nut runners on wheels
Mobile robots
NASAs Mars Spirit Rover http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_rover
http://www.robocup.org/
Saxena et al. 2008 STAIR at Stanford
Medical imaging
3D imaging MRI, CT
Image guided surgery Grimson et al., MIT
