Course description. Computer Vision is broadly defined as the study of recovering useful properties of the world from one or more images.  In recent years, Deep Learning has emerged as a powerful tool for addressing computer vision tasks.  This course will cover a range of foundational topics at the intersection of Deep Learning and Computer Vision.

Contact information.
kosta[at]scs.ryerson[dot]ca

Prerequisites. University-level courses on linear algebra, multivariable calculus, and probability

Required textbook. Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville, Deep Learning (available for free or purchase)

Optional textbook.  Marc Peter Deisenroth, A Aldo Faisal, and Cheng Soon Ong, Mathematics for Machine Learning, (preprint available for free)

Lectures.

#	TOPIC	SLIDES
0	Introduction to Computer Vision	PDF MOV
1	Machine Learning Crash Course	PDF MOV
2	Ethics, Privacy and Security in Machine Learning	PDF MOV
NEURAL NETWORK FOUNDATIONS
3	Multilayer Perceptron	PDF MOV
4	Convolutional Network (ConvNet)	PDF MOV
5	Backprop	PDF MOV
6	Optimization	PDF MOV
7	Introduction to PyTorch (version 1.0)	PDF MOV
SPATIAL MODELS
8	Object Recognition Architectures	PDF MOV
9	Training Networks	PDF MOV
10	Weight Initialization	PDF MOV
11	Transfer Learning	PDF MOV
12	Object Detection	PDF MOV
13	Metric Learning	PDF MOV
14	Pixel Labeling Tasks	PDF MOV
15	Optical Flow	PDF MOV
16	Segmentation Aware Filtering	PDF MOV
VISUALIZATION
17	Understanding ConvNets	PDF MOV
18	Texture Synthesis	PDF MOV
19	Style Transfer	PDF MOV
SEQUENTIAL MODELS
20	Recurrent Neural Network (RNN)	PDF MOV
21	Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)	PDF MOV
22	Bidirectional RNN	PDF MOV
23	Vision and Language	PDF MOV
24	Action Recognition	PDF MOV
SELF-SUPERVISED LEARNING
25	Look ma no labels: Learning without labels	PDF MOV
GENERATIVE MODELS
26	PixelNN (PixelRNN and PixelCNN)	PDF MOV
27	Variational Autoencoder (VAE)
28	Invertible Density Models - Normalizing Flows
29	Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)
ADVERSARIAL EXAMPLES
30	Adversarial Examples	PDF MOV

Related courses.
     Ryerson University CPS843: Introduction to Computer Vision with Kosta Derpanis
     Stanford CS231N: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition with Fei Fei Li, Justin Johnson and Serena Young
     EPFL EE-559: Deep Learning with Francois Fleuret
 

Acknowledgements. While a great effort has been made to assemble an original set of lecture slides, the essence of the presentation of many of the slides rely on material prepared by the following people: Andrej Karpathy, Justin Johnson, Serena Young, Fei Fei Li, Francois Fleuret, Graham Taylor, Carl Doersch