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 2 (No class)

 

 

 

 


 

4

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

• Forsyth & Ponce, chapter 8 (in reader)

 

 

 

2

9

Edge detection [ppt, pdf, html]
Image scissors
[ppt, pdf, html]

Cipolla & Gee on edge detection

Mortensen, Intelligent Scissors

Project 1 assigned

snoop (image zoom) program

11

Sampling      [ppt, pdf, html]

Features   [ppt, pdf, html]

Brown, MOPS

 

SIFT
 

3

16 (No Class)

 

 

 

 

18 (No Class:  snowed out!)

 

 

 

4

23

Features (cont.)

Cameras  [pdf, html, ppt]

 

• Nalwa 2.1 (reader)

 

tutorial on digital cameras
camera/photography terms
thin lens applet

25
Cameras
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

5

30

Mosaics

 

 

 

February 1

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

6

6

single view modeling (cont.)

   

 

8

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

Project 2 due

Project 3 assigned

 photo tourism

7

13
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

15
Recognition [pdf, html, ppt]

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

 

 

8

20 (No Class)

 

 

 

22
Segmentation [pdf, html, ppt]

 Shapiro, pp. 279-289

Project 3 due

Project 4 assigned

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

9

27

Motion [pdf, html, ppt]

 

• Trucco & Verri, 8.3 – 8.4 (skip 8.3.3), (reader)
Newton's method Wikpedia page

 

rotating cube illusion
barber pole illusion

29

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)

10

March 5

Photometric stereo

[pdf, html, ppt]

• (optional) Woodham paper

 

 

 

7

History of 3D vision [pdf]

 

Project 4 due

  

Finals
Week

13

 

Final exam:
March 13
2:30-4:20
in JHN 175