Course calendar (tentative--subject to change)

The course calendar below gives the lecture topics, assignment and due dates for projects.  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

1

March 30

Intro        [ppt, pdf, html]
Filtering  [ppt, pdf, html
 

• Szeliski, Ch 1.0, 3.1-3.2
• (optional)
bilateral filtering

 

 

April 1

Image features   [ppt, pdf, html]

Szeliski, Ch.4.1
• (optional) multi-image matching [Brown05]
• (optional) SIFT [Lowe04]
• (optional) affine covariant features

Project 1 assigned

 

2

6

Features (continued)
Edges and Scale  [ppt, pdf, html]

Cipolla & Gee on edge detection

Szeliski, Ch 4.1.2, 4.1.3
 

 

8

Cameras, projection  [ppt, pdf, html]

Szeliski, Ch 3.4-3.5, 2.1
• (optional) Nalwa 2.1

 

3

13 (Guest:  Rick Szeliski)

Image stitching: motion models,
 warping, RANSAC  [ppt, pdf]

Szeliski, Ch 5.1, 8.1
• (optional) Brown & Lowe, Recognising Panoramas

• (optional)  Szeliski & Shum, SIGGRAPH 97

• (optional) RANSAC

 

15

Image stitching: blending, deghosting 
[ppt, pdf]

Szeliski, Ch 8.2-8.3
 

Project 1 due

Project 2 assigned

 

4

20

Computational Photography:
[ppt, pdf, html]

 

 

22

Optical flow [ppt, pdf, html]

• Szeliski, Ch. 7.1-7.2 (skip 7.1.2), 7.4
• (optional) Bergen et al.
Hierarchical model-based motion estimation. ECCV’92, pp. 237–252

 

5

27

Recognition 1: detection, eigenfaces [ppt, pdf, html]

Szeliski, Ch. 14

 

29

Recognition 2: category recognition

slides from Li, Fergus, and Torralba

Fei-Fei Li, Rob Fergus, Antonio Torralba short-course on Recognizing and Learning Object Categories

Project 2 due

Project 3 assigned

 

6

May 4

Projective geometry  [ppt, pdf, html]
Single view modeling [Criminisi]
 

.• Mundy, J.L. and Zisserman, A., Geometric Invariance in Computer Vision, Appendix: Projective Geometry for Machine Vision, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1992, (read  23.1 - 23.5, 23.10)

 Project 4 assigned

6 (Guest: Sameer Agarwal)

Structure from motion [ppt, pdf, html]
Photo tourism, Photosynth

• Noah Snavely's thesis, Chapter 3
 

 

7

11

Stereo [ppt, pdf, html]

• Szeliski, Ch. 10
• (optional) D. Scharstein and R. Szeliski.
A taxonomy and evaluation of dense two-frame stereo correspondence algorithms. IJCV, 47(1):7-42, 2002.

Project 3 due Tuesday

 

 

 

13

Multi-view stereo  [ppt, pdf, html]
 

• S. Seitz et al. A comparison and evaluation of multi-view stereo reconstruction algorithms. CVPR'2006

Project 4 proposal due by 11:59pm (e-mail prof+TA)
 

8

18

Light, color   [ppt, pdf, html]
photometric stereo   [ppt, pdf, html]
 

Szeliski, Ch. 2.3.2
 

 

20

Class project proposals
 

• (optional) Forsyth & Ponce, Chapter 7
• see slides for (optional) supplementary refs
 

Project 4 status report due (in class)

9

25 no class

(Memorial Day, no class)
 



 

 

27 (Guest: Xiaofeng Ren)

Segmentation and grouping1[ppt]
 

 

 

10

June 1 (Guest: Xiaofeng Ren)

Segmentation and grouping2[ppt]

 

 

3

 

 

5

 

 

 

11

8 Final project presentations

 

Project 4 final presentation

2:30pm-4:20pm,

PAA 114 (Physics Building)

10 Final project writeups

 

Project 4 final writeup