CS 4501: Computer Vision
Spring 2011


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Date Topic Reading* Assignments
01/19 Introduction FP: Preface
TV: Ch. 1
S: Ch. 1
01/24 Image formation FP: Ch. 1, 4
TV: Ch. 2.1-2.4, 3, A.3, A.4
S: Ch. 2
radiometry review, derivation of FERIF
01/26 Image formation (continued)
01/31 Filtering and edge detection FP: Ch. 7,8
TV: Ch. 4.1-4.3
S: Ch. 3,4
02/02 Feature detection; Hough transform TV: Ch. 5.1-5.2
S: Ch. 4
02/07 Hough transform (continued)
02/09 Active contours (snakes) TV: Ch. 5.4
S: Ch. 5.1
[Williams and Shah 1992]
02/14 Segmentation and clustering FP: Ch. 14
S: 5.2,5.3[Martin et al. 2004]
Assignment 1 due
02/16 Recognition; Principal Component Analysis TV: Ch. 10.1-10.5, A.6
S: A.1
02/21 Recognition; Principal Component Analysis (continued)
02/23 Probability in vision FP: Ch. 16
S: App. B
02/28 Texture FP: Ch. 9
S: Ch. 10.5
[Efros and Leung 1999]
[Efros and Freeman 2001]
03/02 Texture (continued) Assignment 2 due
03/07 Spring Break
03/09 Spring Break
03/14 Motion and optical flow TV Ch. 8.1-8.4
S: Ch. 8
Lucas-Kanade paper
03/16 Motion and optical flow (continued)
03/21 Camera geometry and calibration FP: Ch. 10
TV: Ch. 6,7.3
S: Ch. 2.1,6.2,6.3
03/23 Stereo FP: Ch. 11
TV: Ch. 7
S: Ch. 11
03/28 More on stereo; space-time stereo Davis et al. paper on spacetime stereo Assignment 3 due
03/30 Multi-view stereo; voxel coloring FP: Ch. 11
S: Ch. 11.6
Seitz & Dyer paper on voxel coloring
04/04 Structure from motion FP: Ch. 12,13
TV: Ch. 8.2,8.5
S: Ch. 7
Tomasi & Kanade paper
04/06 Active triangulation methods FP: Ch. 21
S: Ch. 12.2
Digital Michaelangelo Project
04/11 Photometric stereo; shape from shading FP: Ch. 5
S: Ch. 12.1
GelSight
Assignment 4 due
04/13 Separating global and local illumination Final project proposals due
04/18 Image alignment, tracking, and the Kalman filter Ch. A.7,A.8
notes on Kalman filter
04/20 Light scattering functions; appearance acquisition
04/25 Image-based modeling and rendering Levoy & Hanrahan paper
04/27 3-D Facial Recognition; Morphable Models
05/02 Final project presentations (MEC 341 6PM-9PM) Final project reports due

*Textbook legend: FP = Forsyth and Ponce, TV = Trucco and Verri, S = Szeliski