Berkeley Computer Vision Class

[anthonycerra]

I'm relatively young (25) and I still get goosebumps whenever I see online courses on cutting edge technologies offered by universities for free. What an amazing time to be alive.

[dpeck]

In the interest of keeping you from making the mistake again, and possibly in company that wouldn't be forgiving, the term "ivy league" isn't a generic term for academically prestigious schools but refers to a specific group of schools in the northeast us. Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University.

http://etcweb.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/ivy_league.h...

[mattyb]

Not that it makes any difference, but Berkeley isn't an Ivy League school.

[apu]

Jitendra Malik, the instructor for this course, is a giant in the field of Computer Vision. I've heard he's also a fantastic teacher.

[brown9-2]

I wonder if this Berkeley offering has anything to do with why the other Stanford/Coursera courses have all been delayed. The most recent emails claimed the delay was for "legal/administrative issues". I wonder how Stanford feels about Coursera working with Berkeley also.

[bdon]

Doubtful. Some of the already-scheduled course offerings feature Berkeley faculty:

http://www.saas-class.org/ http://www.security-class.org/

[karpathy]

It does not. The email that was sent out was sincere. As far as I know, there are some legal hurdles that are taking longer to resolve than was originally anticipated, relating for example to accessibility issues etc.

[le_isms]

I took CV in college and it completely changed how I looked at math/programming. Highly recommended!!

[exim]

For me, it changed how I looked at statistics. It was irrelevant regarding programming in general.

[mgallivan]

Computer Vision is a very interesting domain. If you're considering taking this course, do.

[AUmrysh]

I second this! I took on learning OpenCV and writing an object recognition program for my independent study in college. It's nothing spectacular, but if you 'get' the basics, you can do some pretty crazy stuff with combinations of the primitive operations.

[zackattack]

It's one of the classes I regret not taking in college, so I signed up. But I remember hardly anything from my Linear Algebra -- and I never really developed an intuition for the grand significance of, say, eigenvalues.

[radicaldreamer]

Isn't this what Vicarious is trying to do?