course specifications - Departamento de Física da Universidade de Coimbra

Fundamentos e arquitecturas de sistemas de visão cognitivos. Psicofísica e cognição. *Aprendizagem e adaptação. *Representação e inferência. Reconhecimento e categorização. Integração de sistemas.

Prerequisites

Cálculo, Álgebra, Processamento de Sinal, Visão por Computador.

Generic skills to reach

. Competence in analysis and synthesis;
. Knowledge of a foreign language;
. Competence to solve problems;
. Critical thinking;
. Creativity;
. Competence in organization and planning;
. Competence for working in group;
. Adaptability to new situations;
. Quality concerns;
. Research skills;
(by decreasing order of importance)

Teaching hours per semester

seminar	10
tutorial guidance	15
total of teaching hours	25

Assessment

Project	50 %
Research work	50 %

Bibliography of reference

Cognitive Vision Systems: Sampling the Spectrum of Approaches (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), Henrik I. Christensen and Hans-Hellmut Nagel .
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Vision (Fundamentals of Cognitive Neuroscience), Martha J. Farah
Active Vision: The Psychology of Looking and Seeing (Oxford Psychology Series), John M. Findlay and Iain D. Gilchrist.
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Christopher M. Bishop
Learning with Kernels, Bernhard Schlkopf and Alexander J. Smola

Teaching method

Aulas magistrais, com recurso a instrumentos audiovisuais (teóricas).
Aulas de seminário apresentadas pelos alunos.

Resources used

Software de simulação (matlab).

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