THENARRATION

Computer Vision

Your phone unlocks on your face, your photos app finds 'beach', your car reads the lane and your camera reads a QR code. Every one of them starts from the same thing: a grid of numbers. One idea at a time, with the pixels moving, in plain words.

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01

Digital Images

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What a picture is to a machine before anything is recognised in it: a grid of numbers of a chosen size, in three colour layers, and the one picture made for machines to read, the QR code.

02

Image Features

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How a machine finds structure in a grid of numbers: edges as jumps between neighbours, convolution as one small window slid everywhere, corners matched between two pictures, the layers a network learns, and naming a whole picture.

03

Visual Recognition

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The recognition jobs inside the products people use daily: finding every thing in a frame, marking its exact pixels, reading text, finding things that look alike, and matching a face, each built from one design idea.

04

Applied Computer Vision

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Vision systems built for the world: depth from one camera, an object followed across frames, a car's cameras fused into one map, a medical scan read in a real clinic, the inputs that fool a model, and the models that turn pictures into words.