Lecture 1 gives an introduction to the field of computer vision, discussing its history and key challenges. We emphasize that computer vision encompasses a wide variety of different tasks, and that despite the recent successes of deep learning we are still a long way from realizing the goal of human-level visual intelligence.
Keywords: Computer vision, Cambrian Explosion, Camera Obscura, Hubel and Wiesel, Block World, Normalized Cut, Face Detection, SIFT, Spatial Pyramid Matching, Histogram of Oriented Gradients, PASCAL Visual Object Challenge, ImageNet Challenge
Slides: http://cs231n.stanford.edu/slides/2017/cs231n_2017_lecture1.pdf