Computer Vision (CS 543 / ECE 549) –
Spring 2010
Class Time and Place: Tues, Thurs
12:30-1:45 at Everitt ECE Lab 163
Instructors
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Email
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Location
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Office
Hours
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Derek Hoiem
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dhoiem
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Siebel 3312
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Mon 3-4pm + drop-ins
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David Forsyth
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daf
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Siebel 3310
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TBA
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Varsha Hedau (TA)
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vhedau2
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Siebel 3307
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Tues 2-3pm
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The False Mirror, Magritte, 1928
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The False Mirror, Magritte, 1928 |
Syllabus
Bulletin Board
http://www.nicenet.org
Class key: 0287245C6Z
Homeworks
HW1 due Feb 16: assignment,
supporting materials ; solutions
HW2 due Mar 11: assignment,
supporting materials ; solutions
HW3 due Apr 6: assignment,
p1 materials, p3
materials ; solutions: pdf, code
HW4 due May 4: assignment, supporting materials
Final Project due May 11: Reporting Details ; poster dimensions = 32”
tall x 24” wide
Resources
Recommended Textbook: Computer
Vision: A Modern Approach, Forsyth and Ponce 2002.
Other Useful Books:
Computer
Vision: Algorithms and Applications by Rick Szeliski (draft available
online).
Multiple
View Geometry in Computer Vision by Hartley and Zisserman 2004.
Matlab: Reference Guide;
Writing Fast
Code
Schedule (subject to change)
Note: FP5 is short for Forsyth and Ponce chapter 5; HZ6 for
Hartley and Zisserman chapter 6; and Sz7 for Szeliski chapter 7. Initials of presenter are in notes.
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Topic |
Links |
Notes |
Reading |
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Jan 19 (Tues) |
Intro: Logistics and Overview |
DH |
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Image
Formation and Basic Processing |
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Jan 21 (Thurs) |
Camera models and Projective Geometry |
DH |
FP1-2 ; HZ6-8 |
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Jan 26 (Tues) |
Single-view Metrology and Calibration |
HW1 out; VH |
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Jan 28 (Thurs) |
Shading and Color |
DF |
FP4-6 |
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Feb 2 (Tues) |
Image Filters |
DH |
FP7 |
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Feb 4 (Thurs) |
Applications of Image Filters |
DH |
FP9 |
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Grouping and Fitting |
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Feb 9 (Tues) |
Edge Detection and Line Fitting (Hough) |
DH |
FP8 ; S4.2,4.3 |
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Feb 11 (Thurs) |
Robust fitting (RANSAC) and Registration |
DF |
FP15.5 |
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Feb 16 (Tues) |
Kmeans and Agglomerative Clustering |
HW 1 due ; DF |
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Feb 18 (Thurs) |
EM algorithm, mixture of Gaussians |
DF |
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Feb 23 (Tues) |
Image Segmentation and Gestalt cues |
DH |
See refs at end of slides |
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Feb 25 (Thurs) |
Graph-based segmentation (n-cuts, graph cuts) |
DH |
See refs near end of slides |
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Recognition |
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Mar 2 (Tues) |
Interest Points: SIFT and Matching |
DH |
Grauman/Leibe
Draft Chapter on Local Features Optional: Lowe - SIFT paper |
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Mar 4 (Thurs) |
Object instance recognition, Geometric
verification |
DH |
Lowe-Object
Recognition ; Grauman/Leibe
Draft Visual Vocabularies; S14.3 |
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Mar 9 (Tues) |
Face recognition, PCA, LDA |
DH |
FP22.3.1-2; S14.1; Optional: Face recognition:
A Literature Survey (pp 1-26) |
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Mar 11 (Thurs) |
Image Representation and Categorization |
HW 2 due ; DH |
FP22.1-2 ; S14.4.1 |
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Mar 16 (Tues) |
Object Category Recognition Overview |
DH |
No reading |
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Mar 18 (Thurs) |
Detection by sliding windows |
DH |
S14.2; Viola-Jones
2001 |
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Mar 23, 25 |
No Class -- Spring Break! |
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Mar 30 (Tues) |
Detection by parts |
DH |
Grauman/Leibe
Draft Parts-based Models ; S14.4.2 |
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Apr 1 (Thurs) |
Projects + Review of Recognition |
DH |
No reading |
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Multiple Views and Motion |
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Apr 6 (Tues) |
Image Stitching |
HW 3 due ; DH |
Brown Lowe 2007 ;
S9; HZ4.1,HZ4.7; slides |
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Apr 8 (Thurs) |
Epipolar Geometry |
VH |
HZ9,HZ11.1-11.2; S7.1-7.2 |
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Apr 13 (Tues) |
Stereo and Projective SFM |
DH |
S7.1-7.2; HZ10,HZ12.1-12.2 |
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Apr 15 (Thurs) |
Affine SFM, Tracking, and LK Optical Flow |
DH |
S4.1.4, S7.3, S8.1, S8.4 |
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Apr 20 (Tues) |
Tracking with Kalman filters |
DF |
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Special Topics |
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Apr 22 (Thurs) |
Vision with People |
DF |
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Apr 27 (Tues) |
No class – attend Steve Seitz talk on
Monday, April 26, 4pm, SC1404 |
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Apr 29 (Thurs) |
Image-based 3D Scene Understanding |
DH |
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May 4 (Tues) |
Last Class: Summary and Anti-Summary |
HW 4 due |
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May 11 (Tues) |
Poster session (12:15pm-2:30pm, SC2405) |
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Final project due May 11 |
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