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Computational Active Vision

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This lecture covers the concept of computational active vision, focusing on the integration of visual intelligence with sensorimotor contingencies. Topics include mid-level visual representations, visual navigation tasks, object rearrangement, and embodied vision-and-language challenges. The instructor discusses the importance of perceptual priors in improving generalization and sample complexity for learning visuomotor policies, along with practical applications in interactive and social navigation scenarios.

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