CS651: Computer Vision
Spring 2007

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Date Topic Reading Assignments
01/18 Overview Ch. 1
01/23 Image formation Ch. 2.1-2.4, 3, A.3, A.4
01/25 Filtering and edge detection Ch. 4.1-4.3
01/30 Feature detection; Hough transform Ch. 5.1-5.2
02/01 Active contours Ch. 5.4;
[Williams and Shah 1992]
02/06 Segmentation and clustering; Expectation-Maximization [Martin et al. 2004]
02/08 Recognition, SVD/PCA Ch. 10.1-10.5, A.6 Assignment 1 due
02/13 Classifiers; Support Vector Machines Handouts
02/15 Texture [Efros and Leung 1999]
[Efros and Freeman 2001]
02/20 Introduction to 3-D vision
02/22 Light and color
02/27 Motion and optical flow Ch. 8.1-8.4
Lucas-Kanade paper
Assignment 2 due
03/01 Image alignment, tracking, and the Kalman filter Ch. A.7,A.8
notes on Kalman filter
03/06 Spring recess
03/08 Spring recess
03/13 Camera geometry and calibration Ch. 6, 7.3
03/15 Stereo Ch. 7
03/20 More on stereo; space-time stereo Davis et al. paper on spacetime stereo Assignment 3 due
03/22 Multi-view stereo; voxel coloring Seitz & Dyer paper on voxel coloring
03/27 Structure from motion Ch. 8.2,8.5
Tomasi & Kanade paper
03/29 Active triangulation methods Digital Michaelangelo Project
04/03 No class (gantry arrival)
04/05 Photometric stereo; shape from shading Assignment 4 due
04/10 Special topics: Image-based modeling and rendering Levoy & Hanrahan paper Project proposals due
04/12 Special topics: Light scattering functions; appearance acquisition
04/17 Special Topics: Helmholtz stereopsis Zickler paper
04/19 Special Topics: Separating global and local illumination
04/24 Special Topics: 3-D Facial Recognition; Morphable Models
04/26 Special Topics: TBA
05/01 Final project presentations Project reports due