| Date |
Lecture (click for notes) |
Readings |
Assignments |
| Thu, Sep 15 |
Introduction to computer vision |
Ch. 1.1 |
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| Tue, Sep 20 |
Image formation and capture |
Ch. 2.2.3 – 2.3 |
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| Thu, Sep 22 |
Filtering, edge detection |
Ch. 3.2, 3.4, 4.2 |
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| Tue, Sep 27 |
Feature detectors and descriptors;
fitting, Hough transform |
Ch. 4, Trucco & Verri,
Ch. 4.1 – 4.3,
SIFT paper (optional) |
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| Thu, Sep 29 |
PCA and SVD, Eigenfaces |
Ch. 14.2.1, A.1 – A.2 |
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| Tue, Oct 4 |
Light, Color, and Perception |
Ch. 2.3.2 |
Assignment 1 due |
| Thu, Oct 6 |
Snakes and active contours |
Williams & Shah paper;
Ch. 5.1 (optional);
Kass, Witkin, and Terzopoulos paper (optional)
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| Tue, Oct 11 |
Motion estimation and optical flow |
Ch. 8.4; Lucas-Kanade paper;
Ch. 8.1 – 8.3 (optional)
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| Thu, Oct 13 |
Image
mosaicing; seam carving |
Ch. 6.1.1 – 6.1.4; Ch. 9 (optional);
Multires blending paper;
Seam carving |
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| Tue, Oct 18 |
Statistics in Vision; GMM; EM |
Ch. 5.3.1, B.1 – B.2 |
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| Thu, Oct 20 |
Tracking, mean shift, Kalman filter |
Ch. 5.3.2 |
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| Tue, Oct 25 |
Segmentation and clustering |
Ch. 5.2 – 5.4; Martin et al. segmentation paper
Shi and Malik normalized cuts paper
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Assignment 2 due |
| Thu, Oct 27 |
Texture analysis and synthesis |
Efros & Leung paper;
Efros & Freeman paper
Image
Quilting page (with slides); Ch. 10.5
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| Tue, Nov 1 |
No class - fall break |
| Thu, Nov 3 |
No class - fall break |
| Tue, Nov 8 |
Intro to 3D vision; stereo |
Ch. 11.1 – 11.4; Ch. 12 (optional) |
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| Thu, Nov 10 |
Multibaseline stereo; voxel coloring |
Ch. 11.6; Voxel coloring paper |
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| Tue, Nov 15 |
Camera geometry and calibration |
Ch. 2.1; Ch. 6.3 (optional) |
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| Thu, Nov 17 |
More on stereo: graph cuts, diffusion |
Ch. 11.5;
Diffusion paper;
Graph cuts paper
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| Tue, Nov 22 |
Active 3D scanning methods |
Ch. 12.2 |
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| Thu, Nov 24 |
No class - Thanksgiving |
| Tue, Nov 29 |
Structure from motion |
Ch. 7 |
Assignment 3 due |
| Thu, Dec 1 |
Recognition and Classification I |
Intro notes;
Bag of words notes
(Fei-Fei Li);
Csurka et al. paper
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| Tue, Dec 6 |
Recognition and Classification II:
Discriminative Methods |
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| Thu, Dec 8 |
Recognition and Classification III:
Incorporating Spatial Information |
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| Tue, Dec 13 |
3D shape indexing and matching |
Shape search engine paper
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| Thu, Dec 15 |
Shape from shading |
Photometric stereo paper |
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| Fri, Dec 16 |
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Assignment 4 due
Project proposals due |
| Thu, Jan 12 |
Final project presentations |
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| Mon, Jan 16 |
Final project presentations |
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| Tue, Jan 17 |
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Project reports due |
