Autonomous Systems Perception

Lecturer

Ioannis Pitas, pitas@csd.auth.gr

Content and organization

Autonomous systems. Visual and other sensors. Image/video basics, formats and digitization. Video processing. Video streaming and compression. Motion estimation. Deep learning for image and video analysis.
Object tracking. Object detection. Object pose estimation. SLAM. Face/person detection. Facial expression recognition. Activity recognition.
Video description. Video indexing and retrieval.

Course attendance will be asynchronous in English, using the educational material found in CVML Web Lectures modules:
Autonomous Systems
Video Processing and Analysis
Human Centered Computing
Autonomous Cars
Autonomous Drones
Autonomous Marine Vessels

Compulsory bibliographical and/or programming assignments are foreseen to be carried out during the course.

In order to pass the course, you will be requested to:
1) study the course lecture pdfs (in English) and fill the respective understanding questionnaires:
2) do an obligatory bibliographical project (in ppt and tex)
3) do an obligatory programming project
4) participate in the final written course exams (remotely).

Level

Postgraduate course

Course Duration

13 weeks, 2,5 hours/ week

Course Type

Semester Course

ECTS

7.5

Marking Scheme

0-10 for written exams. Literature survey or programming assignments or mid-term exams or oral presentations provide an additional 2-4 points, if the exam mark is at least 4.

Participation terms

Asynchronous on-line participation.

Language

English/Greek

Modality (online/in person):

Asynchronous on-line participation

Notes

Up to 5 AIDA participants.

Host Institution
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

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