Course calendar (tentative--subject to change)

The course calendar below gives the lecture topics, assignment and due dates for projects, as well as the readings and demos
The calendar is subject to change during the quarter, and we will remind you as each of the due dates comes near.

Week

Topics

Readings

Assignments

Demos

1

January 3

Introduction [ppt, pdf, html]
Images       [ppt, pdf, html

• Forsyth & Ponce, chapter 7 (in reader)

 

 

image warping applet
 

5

Filtering (see "Images" slides)
Image scissors [ppt, pdf, html]

Mortensen, Intelligent Scissors

Project 1 assigned

 

 

2

10

Edge detection [ppt, pdf, html]
Resampling      [ppt, pdf, html]

Cipolla & Gee on edge detection

 

 

snoop (image zoom) program

12
Motion [ppt, pdf, html]
 

• Trucco & Verri, 8.3 – 8.4 (skip 8.3.3), (reader)
Numerical Recipes (Newton-Raphson), 9.4 (first four pages only)

 

rotating cube illusion
barber pole illusion

3

17   

Cameras  [pdf, html, ppt]

• Nalwa 2.1 (reader)

 

tutorial on digital cameras
camera/photography terms
thin lens applet

19
Mosaics  [pdf, html, ppt]

Szeliski & Shum, Mosaics. Read sections 1 and 2, skim the rest. (more details may be found in tech report version (optional))

Project 1 due

Project 2 assigned

full-screen panoramas
seattle panorama site alignment image (load into photoshop)
AutoStitch

4

24

Stereo  [pdf, html, ppt]

 

• Trucco & Verri, Chapter 7
Read through 7.1, 7.2.1, 7.2.2, 7.3.1, 7.3.2, 7.3.7 and 7.4, 7.4.1. (rest is optional)

 

epipolar geometry applet, Digital Michelangelo Project
video view interpolation
spacetime stereo
view morphing video

26

Multi-view stereo [pdf, html, ppt]

 

Seitz & Dyer, Voxel Coloring

 

the 3D Room
voxel coloring video
space carving video

5

31

Projective geometry [pdf, html, ppt]

 

Mundy & Zisserman, Projective Geometry (read  23.1 - 23.5, 23.10)

 

virtual museum (by Criminisi et al.)
related methods:UW, MIT

February 2
Single view modeling (cont.)

 

Project 2 due

Midterm assigned

 

6

7

Light, color, and reflection

[pdf, html, ppt]

• Glassner, pp. 5-32.

• Watt, pp. 64-71, 103-114 (5.3 is optional)
 

 

 

 

illusions:  brightness contrast, after-images, demos:  metamers, HDR (Debevec, Columbia)

9
Photometric stereo
[pdf, html, ppt]

Forsyth & Ponce, Chap 5.4

Midterm due

Project 3 assigned

 

7

14
Recognition  [pdf, html, ppt]

• Bishop, Chapter 1
Forsyth and Ponce, Chap 22.3 (through 22.3.2--eigenfaces)

 

 

16
Invariant features [pdf, html, ppt]

Brown, MOPS
 

 

SIFT
autostitch
office of the past

8

21

segmentation [pdf, html, ppt]

 

 

• Shapiro, pp. 279-289
 

 

 

K-means clustering applet,
EM applet,
morphological operators
mass-spring movies:  movie1, movie2

23
segmentation (cont.)

 

Project 3 due

Project 4 assigned

 

9

28

texture [pdf, html, ppt]

 

Efros & Leung, texture synthesis
 

 

Alyosha Efros' texture synthesis page, graphcut textures, image analogies, flow-based video editing

March 2
guest lecture:  Richard Ladner
The Tactile Graphics Project

 

 

 

10

7

guest lecture:
Jeff Bigham, content-based image retrieval [pdf, html, ppt]
Jenny Yuen, automated cataract classification [pdf, html, ppt]

 

 

 

 

9
Review [pdf, html, ppt]

 

Project 4 due

 

Finals
Week

16

 

Final exam:
March 16
10:30-12:20
in EE 037