This image illustrates the variability of the features that can be used to perform object and face recognition. (Image by Prof. Pawan Sinha.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Pawan Sinha
MIT Course Number
9.67
As Taught In
Spring 2001
Level
Undergraduate / Graduate
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Course Description
Course Description
Provides a comprehensive introduction to key issues and findings in object recognition in experimental, neural, computational, and applied domains. Emphasizes the problem of representation, exploring the issue of how 3-D objects should be encoded so as to efficiently recognize them from 2-D images. Second half focuses on face recognition, an ecologically important instance of the general object recognition problem. Describes experimental studies of human face recognition performance and recent attempts to mimic this ability in artificial computational systems.