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16-899-H
Special Topics:
Human Activity Analysis
Fall 2016



[Lectures] [Papers]

Administrivia

Instructor: Deva Ramanan (deva@cs.cmu.edu)
Piazza link: piazza.com/cmu/fall2016/16899h
Lectures: M,W 12:00-1:30pm NSH 3002
Deva's office hours: After class

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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.