CS651: Computer Vision
Fall 2007


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Date Topic Reading Assignments
08/28 Overview Ch. 1
08/30 Image formation Ch. 2.1-2.4, 3, A.3, A.4
radiometry review, derivation of FERIF
09/04 Image formation (continued)
09/06 Filtering and edge detection Ch. 4.1-4.3
09/11 Feature detection; Hough transform Ch. 5.1-5.2
09/13 Feature detection; Hough transform (continued)
09/18 Active contours Ch. 5.4;
[Williams and Shah 1992]
09/20 Segmentation and clustering [Martin et al. 2004] Assignment 1 due
09/25 Recognition; Principal Component Analysis Ch. 10.1-10.5, A.6
09/27 Probability in Computer Vision
10/02 Texture [Efros and Leung 1999]
[Efros and Freeman 2001]
10/04 Texture (continued)
10/09 Reading Day
10/11 Texture (continued)
10/16 Motion and optical flow Ch. 8.1-8.4
Lucas-Kanade paper		 Assignment 2 due
10/18 Light and color
10/23 Camera geometry and calibration Ch. 6, 7.3
10/25 Stereo Ch. 7
10/30 More on stereo; space-time stereo Davis et al. paper on spacetime stereo
11/01 Multi-view stereo; voxel coloring Seitz & Dyer paper on voxel coloring
11/06 Structure from motion Ch. 8.2,8.5
Tomasi & Kanade paper		 Assignment 3 due
11/08 Active triangulation methods Digital Michaelangelo Project
11/13 Photometric stereo; shape from shading
11/15 Special topics: Image-based modeling and rendering Levoy & Hanrahan paper
11/20 Special topics: Light scattering functions; appearance acquisition Assignment 4 due
11/22 No class: Thanksgiving recess
11/27 Image alignment, tracking, and the Kalman filter Ch. A.7,A.8
notes on Kalman filter
Project proposals due
11/29 Special Topics: Separating global and local illumination
12/04 Special Topics: 3-D Facial Recognition; Morphable Models
12/06 Special Topics: TBA
12/18 Final project presentations Final project reports due