Textbooks

General Computer Vision Textbooks (supplemental)

• Computer Vision: A Modern Approach (38.8 MB pdf) by D. A. Forsyth and J. Ponce, Prentice Hall, 2002.
• Computer Vision, by L. G. Shapiro and G. C. Stockman, Prentice Hall, 2001.
• The Computer Image, by A. Watt, Addison-Wesley, 1998.
• Image Processing, Analysis, and Machine Vision, M. Sonka, V. Hlavac and R. Boyle, Brooks/Cole Publishing, 1999.
• Introductory Techniques for 3-D Computer Vision, E. Trucco and A. Verri, Prentice-Hall,1998.
• Machine Vision, R. Jain, R. Kasturi, and B. G. Schunck, MacGraw-Hill, 1995.
• A Guided Tour of Computer Vision, by V. S. Nalwa, Addison-Wesley, 1993.
• Three-Dimensional Computer Vision, by O. Faugeras, MIT Press, 1993.

Other texts used in this course (supplemental)

• Principles of Digital Image Synthesis, by A. Glassner, Morgan Kaufmann, 1995.
• Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition, by C. Bishop, Oxford University Press, 1998.
  

Readings

The class handouts are from the texts listed above

• Covered in lecture on 1/9:  Forsyth & Ponce (38.8 MB pdf), chapters 8.1-8.2
  Image filtering
• 1/11:  Roberto Cipolla's and Andrew Gee's notes on edge detection 2-up (8.9 MB postscript) (formatted for A4 paper, so be sure to resize before printing), class handout
• 1/11 (supplemental):  Forsyth & Ponce, chapter 9
  Edge detection
• 1/11:  Mortensen, Intelligent Scissors
• 1/23:  Shapiro, pp. 279-289, class handout
  K-means, min-cut segmentation 
• 1/23:  http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/HIPR2/morops.htm,
  Dilation, erosion, opening, closing
• 1/25:  Watt, 10.3-10.4, class handout
  Hough transform
• 1/25:  Trucco & Verri, pp. 191-199 (except 8.3.3, Multi-frame methods), class handout
  Optical flow
• 1/30:  http://www.ulib.org/webRoot/Books/Numerical_Recipes/bookcpdf/c9-4.pdf
  Newton's method
• 2/6:  R. Szeliski and H.-Y. Shum. Creating full view panoramic image mosaics and texture-mapped models, Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH'97), pages 251-258, August 1997. Read sections 1 and 2, skim the rest. (more details may be found in tech report version (optional))
  Mosaic creation
• 2/13:  Mundy, J.L. and Zisserman, A., Geometric Invariance in Computer Vision, Chapter 23: Appendix: Projective Geometry for Machine Vision, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1992, pp. 463-534.  Read sections  23.1 - 23.5, 23.10.
  Projective geometry
• 2/22:  Trucco & Verri, Chapter 7 (handout).  Read through 7.3.2, also 7.3.7 and 7.4, 7.4.1 (the rest is optional).
  Stereo
• 2/27:  (optional) S. M. Seitz and C. R. Dyer, Photorealistic Scene Reconstruction by Voxel Coloring, International Journal of Computer Vision, 35(2), 1999, pp. 151-173.
  Voxel coloring
• 3/6:  Glassner, vol 1, pp. 5-32, class handout
  Perception and light
• 3/8:  Watt, pp. 64-71, 103-114 (5.3 is optional), class handout
  Reflectance
• 3/13:  Bishop, Chapter 1, class handout
  Pattern recognition
• Forsyth & Ponce, pp. 723-729
  Eigenfaces