16-899 Fall 2016 (original) (raw)
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16-899-H Special Topics: Human Activity Analysis Fall 2016 |
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Administrivia
| Instructor: | Deva Ramanan (deva@cs.cmu.edu) | |||
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| Piazza link: | piazza.com/cmu/fall2016/16899h | |||
| Lectures: | M,W | 12:00-1:30pm | NSH | 3002 |
| Deva's office hours: | After class |
News:
- Website in construction.
Course overview
This seminar course will overview state-of-the-art techniques for understanding human actions and activities. The course syllabus will be centered on low-level motion processing, mid-level pose analysis, and high-level activity and intent recognition. The course will be mix of lectures (many of them from experts in the area) and paper readings. Students will be expected to present 1-3 lectures, as well as complete a course project on a related topic (in groups of 1-3 people).
Prerequisites
Graduate computer vision (16-720) is required, and learning in computer vision (16-824) is strongly encouraged.
Grading
Grading will be based on lecture presentation, course participation, and the final project.
Acknowledgements
I gladly acknowledge a host of other instructors for making their teaching materials available online.