CS231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition

Schedule and Syllabus

The Spring 2020 iteration of the course will be taught virtually for the entire duration of the quarter. (more information available here )

Unless otherwise speci ed the lectures are Tuesday and Thursday 12pm to 1:20pm.
Discussion sections will (generally) be Fridays 12:30pm to 1:20pm. Check Piazza for any exceptions.
Lectures and discussion sections will be both on Zoom, and they will be recorded for later access from Canvas.

This is the syllabus for the Spring 2020 iteration of the course. The syllabus for the Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Winter 2016 and Winter 2015 iterations
of this course are still available.

Event Type Date Description Course Materials

Lecture 1 Tuesday Course Introduction

April 7 Computer vision overview
Historical context
Course logistics

Lecture 2 Thursday Image Classi cation

April 9 The data-driven approach
K-nearest neighbor
Linear classi cation I

Discussion Section Friday Python / numpy / Google Cloud

April 10

Lecture 3 Tuesday Loss Functions and Optimization

April 14 Linear classi cation II
Higher-level representations, image features
Optimization, stochastic gradient descent

Lecture 4 Thursday Neural Networks and Backpropagation

April 16 Backpropagation
Multi-layer Perceptrons
The neural viewpoint

Discussion Section Friday Backprop tutorial

April 17

Lecture 5 Tuesday Convolutional Neural Networks

April 21 History
Convolution and pooling
ConvNets outside vision

A1 Due Wednesday Assignment #1 due

April 22 kNN, SVM, SoftMax, two-layer network

Lecture 6 Thursday Deep Learning Hardware and Software

April 23 CPUs, GPUs, TPUs
PyTorch, TensorFlow
Dynamic vs Static computation graphs

Discussion Section Friday Tips and tricks

April 24

Lecture 7 Tuesday Training Neural Networks, part I

April 28

Proposal due Wednesday Project Proposal due

April 29

Lecture 8 Thursday Training Neural Networks, part II

April 30 Update rules, ensembles, data augmentation, transfer learning

Discussion Section Friday Intro to Pytorch and Tensor ow

May 1

Lecture 9 Tuesday CNN Architectures

May 5 AlexNet, VGG, GoogLeNet, ResNet, etc

A2 Due Wednesday Assignment #2 due

May 6 Neural networks, ConvNets

Lecture 10 Thursday Recurrent Neural Networks

May 7 RNN, LSTM, GRU
Language modeling
Image captioning, visual question answering
Soft attention

Discussion Section Friday Midterm Review

May 8

Midterm Tuesday Take-home midterm

May 12

Lecture 11 Thursday Unsupervised Learning

May 14

Discussion Section Friday Detection Software

May 15

Lecture 12 Tuesday Detection and Segmentation

May 19

Milestone Wednesday Project Milestone due

May 20

Lecture 13 Thursday Visualizing and Understanding

May 21 Feature visualization and inversion
Adversarial examples
DeepDream and style transfer

Discussion Section Friday Learning on Videos

May 22

Lecture 14 Tuesday Fairness Accountability Transparency and Ethics in AI

Guest Lecture May 26 Timnit Gebru, Emily Denton

A3 Due Wednesday Assignment #3 due

May 27 RNNs, LSTMs, Network Visualization, Style Transfer, GANs

Lecture 15 Thursday Human-Centered Arti cial Intelligence

May 28 Fei-Fei Li

Lecture 16 Tuesday 3D Vision

Guest Lecture June 2 Hao Su

Lecture 17 Thursday Deep Reinforcement Learning

June 4 Policy gradients, hard attention
Q-Learning, Actor-Critic

Final Project Due Tuesday Project Report + Video Presentation due

June 5