Chapter 0 - Introduction

This is a short overview of the lecture and tells you what content you can expect. We will learn a bit about the tasks and challenges of computer vision, but also the cues which help us interpret a scene. We compare human to computer vision, and finally give a detailed syllabus for the lecture.

Index

00:00 Introduction, what is computer vision?
03:45 Typical tasks in computer vision
07:40 How hard is computer vision?
12:15 What makes it so challenging?
16:14 Examples for challenges
27:24 Human vision vs. computer vision, optical illusions
38:18 Cues in images which allow scene interpretation
47:55 Organization of the lecture
51:28 Content of the lecture
66:23 Literature, exercise groups, summary