Nyquist Lecture in Electrical Engineering: Eyes, Cameras, Depth Perception and Machine Vision

Departments: Applied Physics, Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Time: Wednesday, April 17, 2024 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm
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Presenter: Rajiv Laroia
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Location:
SSS Room 114
1 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
United States
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open to all of SEAS and Yale.

This talk will focus on depth perception and machine vision. To build machines that replace humans in accomplishing even mundane tasks, it is essential that they are to be able to see the world the way we see it. Blind machines can’t replace humans. We live in a 3-dimensional world. Our vision system has evolved to see the world in 3D (depth perception) and then understand what we are seeing. We have two eyes and mainly use parallax for depth perception. We will discuss why replicating this setup with two cameras and processing is harder than it initially appears and the various approaches to solve this - the roles of signal processing and neural processing. Finally, we will discuss the importance of depth in vision.