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Free online courseDeep Learning Computer Vision Masterclass

Duration of the online course: 48 hours and 19 minutes

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Free Michigan Online masterclass on deep learning for computer vision: CNNs, attention, detection, segmentation, video, generative models, and more.

In this free course, learn about

  • Foundations of Image Classification and Linear Models
  • Optimization, Neural Networks, and Backpropagation
  • Convolutional Networks and Practical Training
  • Sequence Models and Attention
  • Model Interpretation and Recognition Tasks
  • 3D and Video Understanding
  • Generative Modeling and Reinforcement Learning
  • Course Wrap-Up

Course Description

Deep Learning Computer Vision Masterclass is a free online course from Michigan Online designed for learners who want a structured, practical path into modern computer vision with deep learning. Positioned within Technology and Programming and focused on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, it builds strong foundations while steadily moving toward advanced applications used in real-world systems.

You will progress from core concepts in deep learning for vision to image classification, linear models, optimization strategies, and neural network fundamentals. The course then dives into backpropagation and convolutional networks, exploring CNN architectures and the essential hardware and software considerations that shape training workflows.

Beyond the basics, the learning expands to effective training techniques, recurrent networks, attention mechanisms, and methods for visualizing and interpreting model behavior. You will also encounter key computer vision tasks such as object detection, segmentation, 3D vision, and video understanding, rounding out a broader view of how vision systems handle complex scenes and temporal data.

The course further introduces generative modeling approaches and reinforcement learning concepts, helping you connect cutting-edge ideas to practical computer vision goals. By the end, you will have a cohesive understanding of the deep learning toolkit for computer vision and how its major components fit together in modern AI pipelines.

Course content

  • Video class: Lecture 1: Introduction to Deep Learning for Computer Vision 57m
  • Exercise: What combination of factors most directly helped drive the major deep learning breakthrough in computer vision around 2012?
  • Video class: Lecture 2: Image Classification 1h02m
  • Exercise: Why is it important to use a separate validation set (and not the test set) when choosing hyperparameters like K in k-nearest neighbors?
  • Video class: Lecture 3: Linear Classifiers 1h02m
  • Exercise: In a linear classifier for CIFAR-10, what is the shape of the weight matrix W when an image is flattened into a 3072-dimensional vector and there are 10 classes?
  • Video class: Lecture 4: Optimization 1h03m
  • Exercise: Why is stochastic gradient descent (SGD) typically preferred over full-batch gradient descent when training deep learning models on large datasets?
  • Video class: Lecture 5: Neural Networks 1h02m
  • Exercise: Why is including a non-linear activation function (like ReLU) between two weight matrices critical in a neural network?
  • Video class: Lecture 6: Backpropagation 1h11m
  • Exercise: What is the main purpose of using a computational graph with backpropagation in deep learning?
  • Video class: Lecture 7: Convolutional Networks 1h08m
  • Exercise: Why are nonlinear activation functions (e.g., ReLU) typically inserted between convolution layers in a CNN?
  • Video class: Lecture 8: CNN Architectures 1h12m
  • Exercise: What is the main purpose of adding a residual (skip) connection in a residual block?
  • Video class: Lecture 9: Hardware and Software 1h12m
  • Exercise: What is one key reason GPUs are often much faster than CPUs for deep learning operations like matrix multiplication?
  • Video class: Lecture 10: Training Neural Networks I 1h12m
  • Exercise: Why is the sigmoid activation function often avoided when training deep neural networks?
  • Video class: Lecture 11: Training Neural Networks II 1h19m
  • Exercise: Why is a cosine learning rate decay schedule often considered easier to tune than a step schedule?
  • Video class: Lecture 12: Recurrent Networks 1h13m
  • Exercise: Why do recurrent neural networks (RNNs) use the same weights at every time step?
  • Video class: Lecture 13: Attention 1h11m
  • Exercise: In an attention-based sequence-to-sequence model, how is the context vector for a decoder time step typically computed?
  • Video class: Lecture 14: Visualizing and Understanding 1h12m
  • Exercise: When performing nearest-neighbor image retrieval using a CNN, which representation is used to compare images in the described approach?
  • Video class: Lecture 15: Object Detection 1h12m
  • Exercise: In object detection, what does the model typically output for each detected object?
  • Video class: Lecture 16: Detection and Segmentation 1h10m
  • Exercise: What key improvement does ROI Align introduce compared to ROI Pool in region-based detectors?
  • Video class: Lecture 17: 3D Vision 1h12m
  • Exercise: Which 3D shape representation assigns a distance value to each pixel, but cannot represent occluded parts of the scene?
  • Video class: Lecture 18: Videos 1h15m
  • Exercise: In video classification, how is a video most commonly represented as input to a deep network?
  • Video class: Lecture 19: Generative Models I 1h11m
  • Exercise: What is the key probabilistic difference between a discriminative model and a generative model?
  • Video class: Lecture 20: Generative Models II 1h12m
  • Exercise: In a variational autoencoder (VAE), what role does the KL divergence term play in the training objective?
  • Video class: Lecture 21: Reinforcement Learning 1h11m
  • Exercise: In reinforcement learning, what is the main objective of the agent?
  • Video class: Lecture 22: Conclusion 1h13m
  • Exercise: What combination was highlighted as a major driver of the deep learning boom in computer vision around the ImageNet era?

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