About this course

In this course, we will explore machine learning fundamentals as you build a Snapchat-esque face swap application; for those unfamiliar with Snapchat, this filter will detect pairs of faces and swap them. Along the way, you will use a pre-trained face detector and will learn related concepts to kickstart your study of machine learning, centered around four abstractions: model, data, objective, and algorithm.

No prior machine learning--statistics, mathematics--background is required for this introductory lesson. However, we make extensive use of Python, a desktop webcam, and related computational and computer vision Python packages.