Stanford CS231N Deep Learning for Computer Vision, Lecture 1: Introduction
Stanford CS231N's opening lecture traces computer vision from its biological origins 540 million years ago to today's AI revolution. Professor Fei-Fei Li chronicles the field's evolution from 1950s neuroscience discoveries through the AI winter to the transformative 2012 ImageNet breakthrough with AlexNet. The course explores deep learning fundamentals, visual understanding tasks, large-scale training, and generative models. Applications span medical diagnosis to creative AI, while emphasizing ethical considerations and interdisciplinary collaboration essential for responsible AI development in computer vision.