Image Understanding

3 Credits

An advanced graduate level course on image understanding. Mathematical and statistical approaches to solving image understanding problems will be discussed. Topics to be covered include: optimal edge and shape detection; image understanding using Markov random field models; Monte Carlo Markov Chain techniques for image understanding; shape from shading, stereo, texture and contour; structure from motion and object recognition. Existence, uniqueness and convergence issues for many of these problems will be discussed.