X-Student Research Group: Active Perception

Active Perception

A project-course (as part of the X-Student Research Groups) at the Dept. of Computer Engineering and Microelectronics, Technische Universität Berlin

Description:

Current computer vision methods aim at processing an entire image at once. Prior work however has shown that the approach “one image at once” might not be the most effective. Instead, biological vision explores a scene while consecutively fixating on different regions in the scene. How does such active scene exploration lead to an improved understanding of objects and their relative locations? In this research group we will revise existing computer vision strategies for depth perception based on frame-based videos and event camera data. We then take ideas from biological vision to build a system that sequentially explores a scene to gain depth information (distance between observer and object) similar to the human visual system.

Teachers: Pia Bideau (Contact: p.bideau@tu-berlin.de )

Dates: Thursdays, 2pm-4pm (Lecture for all Students) and Fridays, 11am-1pm (individual project discussions, meeting rooms with the individual groups will be arranged by the lecturer) from October 17th, 2022 until February 18th, 2023.

Room of the Group: MAR 0.015

Course website: https://active-perception.github.io/

Information on how to particpate in an X-Student Research Group in winter 2022/2023 semester you can find via the link below:

https://www.berlin-university-alliance.de/en/commitments/teaching-learning/sturop/research-groups/participate/index.html

Note on registration: You are studying at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin or Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and have received confirmation of participation by the teachers or tutors? Then please register until October 30th as BUA Student at the TU Berlin. For students of the Technische Universität Berlin, no further steps are required after receiving a place confirmation.

To register as BUA Student please send the following documents to bua@pruefungen.tu-berlin.de by October 30th:

the completed and signed application for participation in BUA modules

"To find via the following link: https://www.tu.berlin/fileadmin/www/10002461/BUA-Antrag_Eng/BUA_application.pdf ." (module title: "X-Student Research Group: project title")

as well as the current enrollment certificate of your main university.