Computer Vision – StAR Lecture Series: Object Recognition

The state-of-the-art in object recognition has undergone dramatic changes in the last 20 years. In this talk, I will review the progression of the field and discuss why various approaches both succeeded and failed. The talk will cover visual recognition from the early 90's, including handwritten digit and face detection, to the current state-of-the-art in deep learning applied to object categorization. Algorithms will be explained at an intuitive level. The talk is aimed at the non-expert in computer vision with some knowledge of machine learning.