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 Image Processing and Computer Vision
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Why computer scientists should know about Image Processing and
Computer Vision:

It is a difficult task for a computer:
  .. image:: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/tasks.png
     :align: center

  From the xkcd website:
      
     "In the 60s, Marvin Minsky assigned a couple of undergrads to spend
     the summer programming a computer to use a camera to identify
     objects in a scene. He figured they'd have the problem solved by the
     end of the summer. Half a century later, we're still working on it."

  But we are now getting close to the solution (using deep learning).
     
Even for humans vision is a difficult task:
  A `quote from Quora <https://www.quora.com/How-much-of-the-brain-is-involved-with-vision>`_:

     "It is often said that 2/3 (60%+) of the brain is "involved" in
     vision. However possibly less than 20% of the brain is dedicated
     to "visual-only" functioning. The other 40% is doing
     vision+touch, or vision+motor, or vision+attention, or
     vision+spatial navigation, or vision+meaning, etc. There is
     generally a smooth gradation from areas fully-specialized to one
     thing to areas involved in many things."
    
     .. image:: /images/brain.png
	:width: 12cm
	:align: center


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   Course Syllabus 2017-2018 <20172018/syllabus>
   Schedule 2017-2018 <20172018/schedule>
   20172018/LabExercises/index
   Lecture Notes <LectureNotes/index>