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

September 25

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

• Forsyth & Ponce, chapter 8 (in reader)

 

 

image warping applet
 

27

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

Mortensen, Intelligent Scissors

Project 1 assigned

 

 

2

October 2

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

Cipolla & Gee on edge detection

 

 

snoop (image zoom) program

4 (Guest:  Ira Kemelmacher)
Features
  [ppt, pdf, html]
 

Brown, MOPS

 

 

SIFT
autostitch

 

3

9 (Guest:  Ira Kemelmacher)

Cameras  [pdf, html, ppt]

• Nalwa 2.1 (reader)

 

tutorial on digital cameras
camera/photography terms
thin lens applet

11 (Guest:  Ira Kemelmacher)
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 (Wed night)

Project 2 assigned

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

4

16

Mosaics (cont.)

 

 

 

18
Projective geometry and

single view modeling
          
[pdf, html, ppt]

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

 

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

5

23

Structure from Motion

 [pdf, html, ppt]

 

 

Snavely et al., Photo Tourism.

• (optional) Szeliski & Kang. Recovering 3D shape and motion from image streams using non-linear least squares

 

 

photo tourism

rome in a day

 

25

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)

Project 2 due

(Wed night)

 

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

6

30

Multiview stereo [pdf, html, ppt]

 

Midterm assigned

 

 

 

November 1
Light, color, and reflection

[pdf, html, ppt]

• Glassner, pp. 5-32.

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

Color podcast (by Radiolab)

 

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

7

6
Photometric stereo

[pdf, html, ppt]

• (optional) Woodham’s original photometric stereo paper
 

Midterm due

Project 3 assigned

 

8
Recognition [pdf, html, ppt]

• Bishop, Chapter 1
 Szeliski, Chapter 14.2.1 (eigenfaces)

 

 

8

13

Segmentation [pdf, html, ppt]

 

 Shapiro, pp. 279-289

 

 

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

15

Motion [pdf, html, ppt]

• 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

9

20

texture [pdf, html, ppt]

 

  • Efros & Leung, texture synthesis

Project 3 due

Project 4 assigned

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

22 (Thanksgiving, no class)
Motion (continued)

 

 

 

10

27

Recognition2 [pdf, html, ppt]

K. Graumman's SVM slides

[ppt,pdf]

 

 

 

 

29 (Guest:  Richard Ladner)
Tactile Graphics

Jayant et al., Automated Tactile Graphics Translation:  In the Field

 

 

11

December 4

History of 3D vision [pdf]

 

 

 

 

6
(Guests:  Aseem Agarwala, Dan Goldman, Adobe Research)
Computational Photography

 

Project 4 due Wednesday 11:59pm

 

Finals
Week

December 13

 

Final exam:
December 13
10:30-12:20
in THO
125