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I took PIV in the first semester this year. I had high expectations for this course because I really like visual stuff. I was expecting to learn things along those lines, mainly focused on image recognition and so on. But before I knew it, we were learning about pinhole cameras and camera positioning, nothing like what I had in mind or was interested in. The approach to image processing felt way too old-school to me, especially considering that nowadays most of it is done with deep learning (correct me if I'm wrong)....
PIV is largely aimed at electrical engineering students, focusing on how cameras work in the real world.
The project involved building a 3D model from video (connecting frame by frame, understanding camera rotation, and applying the mathematics).
There's some mathematics involved. Nothing too difficult, but it's the tedious math from Computer Graphics, dealing with rotation matrices and homographies.
Evaluation was split 50/50 between project and exam.