Computer Vision

Name: Computer Vision Nanodegree Program
Rating: 4.85 (451 reviews)

Nanodegree Program

Master the computer vision skills behind advances in robotics and automation. Write programs to analyze images, implement feature extraction, and recognize objects using deep learning models.

Advanced

2 months

Real-world Projects

Completion Certificate

Last Updated October 3, 2024

Skills you'll learn:

Object tracking • Slam • Recurrent neural networks • Object detection

Prerequisites:

Object-oriented programming basics • Object-oriented Python • Intermediate Python

Courses In This Program

Course 1 • 45 minutes

Welcome to the Nanodegree Program!

Welcome to Udacity! We're excited to share more about your Nanodegree program and start this journey with you!

Lesson 1

Welcome!

Welcome to Udacity. Takes 5 minutes to get familiar with Udacity courses and gain some tips to succeed in courses.

Lesson 2

Getting Help

You are starting a challenging but rewarding journey! Take 5 minutes to read how to get help with projects and content.

Lesson 1

Welcome!

Welcome to Udacity. Takes 5 minutes to get familiar with Udacity courses and gain some tips to succeed in courses.

Lesson 2

Getting Help

You are starting a challenging but rewarding journey! Take 5 minutes to read how to get help with projects and content.

Course 2 • 2 weeks

Introduction to Computer Vision

Master computer vision and image processing essentials. Learn to extract important features from image data, and apply deep learning techniques to classification tasks

Lesson 1

Welcome to Computer Vision

Welcome to the Computer Vision Nanodegree program!

Lesson 2

Image Representation & Classification

Learn how images are represented numerically and implement image processing techniques, such as color masking and binary classification.

Lesson 3

Convolutional Filters and Edge Detection

Learn about frequency in images and implement your own image filters for detecting edges and shapes in an image. Use a computer vision library to perform face detection.

Lesson 4

Types of Features & Image Segmentation

Program a corner detector and learn techniques, like k-means clustering, for segmenting an image into unique parts.

Lesson 5

Feature Vectors

Learn how to describe objects and images using feature vectors.

Lesson 6

CNN Layers and Feature Visualization

Define and train your own convolution neural network for clothing recognition. Use feature visualization techniques to see what a network has learned.

Lesson 7 • Project

Project: Facial Keypoint Detection

Apply your knowledge of image processing and deep learning to create a CNN for facial keypoint (eyes, mouth, nose, etc.) detection.

Lesson 1

Welcome to Computer Vision

Welcome to the Computer Vision Nanodegree program!

Lesson 2

Image Representation & Classification

Learn how images are represented numerically and implement image processing techniques, such as color masking and binary classification.

Lesson 3

Convolutional Filters and Edge Detection

Learn about frequency in images and implement your own image filters for detecting edges and shapes in an image. Use a computer vision library to perform face detection.

Lesson 4

Types of Features & Image Segmentation

Program a corner detector and learn techniques, like k-means clustering, for segmenting an image into unique parts.

Lesson 5

Feature Vectors

Learn how to describe objects and images using feature vectors.

Lesson 6

CNN Layers and Feature Visualization

Define and train your own convolution neural network for clothing recognition. Use feature visualization techniques to see what a network has learned.

Lesson 7 • Project

Project: Facial Keypoint Detection

Apply your knowledge of image processing and deep learning to create a CNN for facial keypoint (eyes, mouth, nose, etc.) detection.

Course 3 • 40 minutes

Optional: Cloud Computing

Lesson 1

Optional: Cloud Computing with AWS

Take advantage of Amazon's GPUs to train your neural network faster. In this lesson, you'll learn how to setup an instance on AWS and train a neural network on a GPU.

Lesson 1

Optional: Cloud Computing with AWS

Take advantage of Amazon's GPUs to train your neural network faster. In this lesson, you'll learn how to setup an instance on AWS and train a neural network on a GPU.

Course 4 • 2 weeks

Advanced Computer Vision and Deep Learning

Learn to apply deep learning architectures to computer vision tasks. Discover how to combine CNN and RNN networks to build an automatic image captioning application.

Lesson 1

Advanced CNN Architectures

Learn about advances in CNN architectures and see how region-based CNN’s, like Faster R-CNN, have allowed for fast, localized object recognition in images.

Lesson 2

YOLO

Learn about the YOLO (You Only Look Once) multi-object detection model and work with a YOLO implementation.

Lesson 3

RNN's

Explore how memory can be incorporated into a deep learning model using recurrent neural networks (RNNs). Learn how RNNs can learn from and generate ordered sequences of data.

Lesson 4

Long Short-Term Memory Networks (LSTMs)

Luis explains Long Short-Term Memory Networks (LSTM), and similar architectures which have the benefits of preserving long term memory.

Lesson 5

Hyperparameters

Learn about a number of different hyperparameters that are used in defining and training deep learning models. We'll discuss starting values and intuitions for tuning each hyperparameter.

Lesson 6

Optional: Attention Mechanisms

Attention is one of the most important recent innovations in deep learning. In this section, you'll learn how attention models work and go over a basic code implementation.

Lesson 7

Image Captioning

Learn how to combine CNNs and RNNs to build a complex, automatic image captioning model.

Lesson 8 • Project

Project: Image Captioning

Train a CNN-RNN model to predict captions for a given image. Your main task will be to implement an effective RNN decoder for a CNN encoder.

Lesson 1

Advanced CNN Architectures

Learn about advances in CNN architectures and see how region-based CNN’s, like Faster R-CNN, have allowed for fast, localized object recognition in images.

Lesson 2

YOLO

Learn about the YOLO (You Only Look Once) multi-object detection model and work with a YOLO implementation.

Lesson 3

RNN's

Explore how memory can be incorporated into a deep learning model using recurrent neural networks (RNNs). Learn how RNNs can learn from and generate ordered sequences of data.

Lesson 4

Long Short-Term Memory Networks (LSTMs)

Luis explains Long Short-Term Memory Networks (LSTM), and similar architectures which have the benefits of preserving long term memory.

Lesson 5

Hyperparameters

Learn about a number of different hyperparameters that are used in defining and training deep learning models. We'll discuss starting values and intuitions for tuning each hyperparameter.

Lesson 6

Optional: Attention Mechanisms

Attention is one of the most important recent innovations in deep learning. In this section, you'll learn how attention models work and go over a basic code implementation.

Lesson 7

Image Captioning

Learn how to combine CNNs and RNNs to build a complex, automatic image captioning model.

Lesson 8 • Project

Project: Image Captioning

Train a CNN-RNN model to predict captions for a given image. Your main task will be to implement an effective RNN decoder for a CNN encoder.

Taught By The Best

Sebastian Thrun

Founder and Executive Chairman, Udacity

As the Founder and Chairman of Udacity, Sebastian's mission is to democratize education by providing lifelong learning to millions of students worldwide. He is also the founder of Google X, where he led projects including the Self-Driving Car, Google Glass, and more.

Cezanne Camacho

Curriculum Lead

Cezanne is an expert in computer vision with a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. As a former researcher in genomics and biomedical imaging, she's applied computer vision and deep learning to medical diagnostic applications.

Jay Alammar

Instructor

Jay is a software engineer, the founder of Qaym (an Arabic-language review site), and the Investment Principal at STV, a $500 million venture capital fund focused on high-technology startups.

Alexis Cook

Curriculum Lead

Alexis is an applied mathematician with a Masters in Computer Science from Brown University and a Masters in Applied Mathematics from the University of Michigan. She was formerly a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow.

Luis Serrano

Instructor

Luis was formerly a Machine Learning Engineer at Google. He holds a PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan, and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Quebec at Montreal.

Juan Delgado

Content Developer

Juan is a computational physicist with a Masters in Astronomy. He is finishing his PhD in Biophysics. He previously worked at NASA developing space instruments and writing software to analyze large amounts of scientific data using machine learning techniques.

Ortal Arel

Curriculum Lead

Ortal Arel has a PhD in Computer Engineering, and has been a professor and researcher in the field of applied cryptography. She has worked on design and analysis of intelligent algorithms for high-speed custom digital architectures.

Ratings & Reviews

Average Rating: 4.85 Stars

451 Reviews

Pravin D.

February 2, 2023

The program was good, if the student takes effort into projects then it can benefit a lot.

Eric T.

November 30, 2022

Really interesting projects. This course gives you a real understanding of how CNN-RNN works.

Dev K.

September 26, 2022

VERY INFORMATIVE, I LEARNED AND GAINED THE SKILLS OF THE VARIOUS THINGS.

Khadija M.

September 6, 2022

Awesome

Carlos M.

August 26, 2022

I feel kind of frustrated with the low pace I am taking this course. I come from NDs where the learning curve you take is paired with the lessons. When I find these lessons there is a lot of knowledge in there. I work hard and memorize parts of them in order to learn from them. But I feel there's hard work behind the scenes with it. And personally I find myself tired of this work. You're presented with a lot of knowledge impossible to grasp; print all the work; prove to apply it myself; etc. It is tiresome... I hope to do it well in the future but I have spent many months this way and feel like to expedite this pace... Thanks!

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