This course covers the fundamentals of imaging – the creation of an image that is ready for consumption or processing by a human or a machine. Imaging has a long history, spanning several centuries. But the advances made in the last three decades have revolutionized the camera and dramatically improved the robustness and accuracy of computer vision systems. We describe the fundamentals of imaging, as well as recent innovations in imaging that have had a profound impact on computer vision.
Camera and Imaging
This course is part of First Principles of Computer Vision Specialization
Instructor: Shree Nayar
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Learn how a camera works and how an image is formed using a lens
Understand how an image sensor works and its key characteristics
Design cameras that capture high dynamic range and wide angle images
Learn to create binary images and use them to build a simple object recognition system
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