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1.00 Credits
Intended for students pursuing research projects at the Media Laboratory. Topics include Media Lab research areas; documenting research progress; ethical issues in research; patents, copyrights, intellectual property; and giving oral, written, and online presentations of results. A final oral presentation is required. Enrollment limited with preference given to students in the Media Arts and Sciences freshman program.
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Prereq: None
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3.00 Credits
Covers the complete pipeline of computational cameras that attempt to digitally capture the essence of visual information by exploiting the synergistic combination of task-specific optics, illumination, sensors, and processing. Students discuss and use thermal, multi-spectral, high-speed and 3-D range-sensing cameras, as well as camera arrays. Presents opportunities in scientific and medical imaging, and mobile phone-based photography. Also covers cameras for human computer interaction (HCI) and sensors that mimic animal eyes. Intended for students with interest in algorithmic and technical aspects of imaging and photography. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.
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Prereq: Permission of instructor
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2.00 Credits
Surveys the landscape of imaging techniques and develops skills for conducting imaging research. Reviews technical and social aspects of the evolving camera culture and considers its role in transforming social interactions, reshaping businesses, and influencing communities worldwide. Explores innovative protocols for sharing and consumption of visual media, as well as novel hardware and software tools based on advanced lenses, digital illumination, modern sensors, and emerging image-analysis algorithms. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.
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Prereq: Permission of instructor
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4.00 Credits
Fundamentals of signals and information theory with emphasis on modeling audio/visual messages and physiologically derived signals, and the human source or recipient. Linear systems, difference equations, Z-transforms, sampling and sampling rate conversion, convolution, filtering, modulation, Fourier analysis, entropy, noise, Shannon's fundamental theorems. Additional topics may include data compression, filter design, and feature detection. Meets with graduate subjects MAS.510 and MAS.511 but assignments differ.
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Prereq: Calculus II (GIR)
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3.00 Credits
Explores how sensory and social systems engage in a variety of similar decision-making processes. Examines the use of partial orderings of alternative choices (or models) in interpreting available data, and how both use constraints to relate and narrow the choice options. Examples show how maximum likelihood equilibria depend upon context. Coverage includes important aspects of perception and cognition, decision-making in social systems, and elementary game theory.
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Prereq: 9.00 or permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
Many complex systems can be represented as a society of agents who aggregate information to reach a collective decision. An Anigraf makes explicit how one agent's knowledge is related to another's, and how the form of these relationships affects the social choice. Simulations are used to discover emergent properties of different Anigraf models. Topics include elementary graph theory, network designs, partial orders, voting strategies, coordination games, and dynamics of choice. Applied examples taken from insect societies, neural networks, studies of co-evolution, cognition, and group decision-making.
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Prereq: 9.34 or permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
Sensing and measurement aimed at quantitative molecular/cell/tissue analysis in terms of genetic, biochemical, and biophysical properties. Methods include light and fluorescence microscopies, electronic circuits, and electro-mechanical probes (atomic force microscopy, optical traps, MEMS devices). Application of statistics, probability, signal and noise analysis, and Fourier techniques to experimental data. Final design project emphasizes utilization of principles underlying biological instrumentation. Preference to juniors and seniors.
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Prereq: Biology (GIR), Physics II (GIR), 6.00, 18.03; 2.001, 20.310, or 6.02; or permission of instructor; Coreq: 20.330
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0.00 - 6.00 Credits
No course description available.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: Permission of instructor
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0.00 - 6.00 Credits
Special projects on group or individual basis. Registration subject to prior arrangement of subject matter and supervision by staff.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: Permission of instructor
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0.00 - 6.00 Credits
No course description available.
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Prereq: None
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