Visual Scene Understanding – CS 598 (Spring 2009)

 

Course Information

Course Number: 46411

Instructor: Derek Hoiem

Room:  Siebel Center 1109

Class Time:  Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am – 12:15pm

Office Hours:  Tuesday and Thursday 12:15-1pm; by appointment

Contact: d<last name>@uiuc.edu, Siebel 3312

 

Syllabus

Related Courses and Reading

Project Ideas

Bulletin Board

 

Schedule (subject to change)

Date

Presenter

Topic and Papers

Authors

Slides

Jan 20 (Tues)

Derek Hoiem

Intro: Logistics and Overview

 

intro

Jan 22 (Thurs)

Derek Hoiem

Tools and Techniques: Features and Representations

 

Perspectives in Vision: Art

The Artists as Neuroscientists (2005) 

 

 

 

Cavanagh

art

photoClipArt

representations

Jan 27 (Tues)

Derek Hoiem

Tools and Techniques: Classification

 

Perspectives in Vision: Categories

  Principles of Categorization (1978)

 

 

 

Rosch

classification

w/  notes

 

Jan 29 (Thurs)

Derek Hoiem

Introduction to Spatial Inference and Navigation

  Purple Peril: Notes on Perception of Slant (1966)

  Recovering Surface Layout from an Image (2007)

 

Gibson

Hoiem et al.

surfaceLayout

Feb 3 (Tues)

1

Eamon Caddigan

Scene Gist

  Modeling the Shape of the Scene (2001)

  Depth Estimation from Image Structure (2002)

 

Oliva-Torralba

Torralba-Oliva

spatialEnvelope

Feb 5 (Thurs)

2

Ian Endres

Monocular Depth Estimation

  Make3D: Depth from a Single Image (2008)

 

Saxena et al.

Make3d

Feb 10 (Tues)

3

Sanketh Shetty

Robot Navigation

  Vision-based mobile robot navigation and mapping (2001)

  High Speed Obstacle Avoidance using Monocular Vision (2005)

  Use of Vision to Push Back the Path-Planning Horizon (2006)

 

Se et al.

Michels et al.

Nabbe et al.

Robots

Feb 12 (Thurs)

 

Project Discussion: Goals and Experiments

 

 

Part II. Identifying and Observing Objects

Feb 17 (Tues)

Derek Hoiem

Introduction to Objects

 

Perspectives in Vision: Semiotics

  Semiotics for Beginners: signs (web)

 

 

Chandler

ObjectsSemiotics

Feb 19 (Thurs)

4

Gang Wang

Instance recognition

Object Recognition from Local Scale-Invariant Features (1999)

Distinctive image features from scale-invariant keypoints (2004)

 

Lowe

Lowe

SIFT

Feb 24 (Tues)

5

Derek Hoiem

Sliding window methods for category recognition

  A Statistical Method for 3D Object Detection (2000)

 

  Rapid Object Detection using a Boosted Cascade of Simple Features (2001)

 

Schneiderman -Kanade

Viola-Jones

ObjectTemplate

Feb 26 (Thurs)

6

Duan Tran

Part-based Models

  Pictorial Structures for Object Recognition (2005)

 

  A Discriminatively Trained, Multiscale Deformable Part Model (2008)

 

Felzenszwalb-Huttenlocher

Felzenszwalb et al.

pptx

Mar 3 (Tues)

7

Jianchao Yang

Biological Perspectives on Recognition

  Biological Object Recognition: Scholarpedia

  Face recognition by humans: 20 results (2005)

  Object recognition with features inspired by visual cortex (2005)

 

Kreiman

Serre et al.

Sinha et al.

pdf

Mar 5 (Thurs)

8

Mani Golparvar-Fard

Recognizing Stuff

  On Seeing Stuff (2002)

  Semantic Texton Forests (2008)

 

Adelson

Shotton et al.

pdf

Mar 10 (Tues)

9

No class: ICCV paper deadline

 

 

Part III. Observing and Performing Actions

Mar 12 (Thurs)

Derek Hoiem

Introduction to Actions

 

 

Mar 17 (Tues)

10

Derek Hoiem

Robotic grasping

  Robotic Grasping of Novel Objects Using Vision (2008)

  STAIR: Hardware and Software Architecture (2007)

 

Saxena et al.

Quigley et al.

ppt

Mar 19 (Thurs)

 

Project Discussion: Approach and Initial Results

 

 

Mar 24 Mar 26

 

No Class -- Spring Break!

 

 

Mar 31 (Tues)

11

Mert Dikmen

Flow-Based Action Recognition

  The Representation and Recognition of Action Using Temporal Templates (2001)

  Recognizing Action at a Distance (2003)

 

Bobick-Davis

 

Efros et al.

ppt

Apr 2 (Thurs)

12

Jianchao Yang

Keypoint-Based Action Recognition

  Behavior Recognition via Sparse Spatio-Temporal Features (2005)

  Learning Realistic  Human Actions from Movies (2008)

 

Dollár et al.

 

Laptev et al.

pdf

Apr 7 (Tues)

13

Duan Tran

Recognizing Actions from Still Images

  Recovering Human Body Configurations (2008)

  Pose Primitive Based Human Action Recognition (2008)

 

Mori et al.

Thurau-Hlavac

pptx

Apr 9 (Thurs)

14

Ian Endres

Social Interaction

  Recognizing Facial Expressions in Image Sequences using Parameterized Models of Image Motion (1997)

  Facial expression recognition and tracking for intelligent human-robot interaction (2008)

 

Black-Yacoob

 

Yang et al.

pdf

Part IV. Integrative Scene Analysis: Putting Things Together

Apr 14 (Tues)

Derek Hoiem

Introduction to Integrative Scene Analysis

 

Tools and Techniques: Contextual Representations and Graphical Models

   Suggested reading: Graphical Models in a Nutshell

 

 

 

 

Koller et al.

ppt

Apr 16 (Thurs)

15

Eamon Caddigan

Objects and Scenes

Context-based vision system for place and object recognition (2003)

 

Torralba et al.

ppt

 

Apr 21 (Tues)

16

Sanketh Shetty

Object Identity and Boundaries

  Image parsing: unifying detection segmentation and recognition (2003) (journal version)

 

Tu et al.

ppt

mcmc tutorial

Apr 23 (Thurs)

17

Mert Dikmen

Integration via Feature Passing

  Auto-context and its Application to High-level Tasks (2008)

  Multi-class Segmentation with Relative Location Prior (2008)

 

Tu

Gould et al.

 

Apr 28 (Tues)

18

Mani Golparvar-Fard

3Dish Models for Object Recognition

  3D generic object categorization, localization and pose estimation (2007)

 

Savarese and Fei-Fei

 

Apr 30 (Thurs)

19

Gang Wang

Shared Representations

  Sharing Features (2004)

 Incremental learning of object detectors using a visual shape alphabet (2006) (journal version)

 

Torralba et al.

Opelt et al.

 

May 5 (Tues)

 

Project Presentations (extended class)

 

 

 

 



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