Description
This course studies learning visual representations for common computer vision tasks including matching, retrieval, classification, and object detection. The course discusses well-known methods from low-level description to intermediate representation, and their dependence on the end task. It then studies a data-driven approach where the entire pipeline is optimized jointly in a supervised fashion, according to a task-dependent objective. Deep learning models are studied in detail and interpreted in connection to conventional models. The focus of the course is on recent, state of the art methods and large scale applications.