Computer Vision

CSE 576, Spring 2013

Week	Date	Topic	Readings	Notifications
1	April 1	Introduction [ppt] Filtering [ppt]	Szeliski, Ch 1.0, 3.1-3.2 (optional) bilateral filtering
	April 3	Image features [ppt]	Szeliski, Ch 4.1 (optional) multi-image matching [Brown05] (optional) SIFT [Lowe04] (optional) affine covariant features	Project 1 assigned
2	April 8	Guest lecturer: Neeraj Kumar Features (continued) [ppt] Edge and Scale [ppt] Image sampling [ppt]	Szeliski, Ch 4.1.2, 4.1.3 Cippola & Gee on edge detection
	April 10	Guest lecturer: Neeraj Kumar Cameras and projection [ppt]	Szeliski, Ch 3.4-3.5, 2.1 Nalwa, Ch 2.1
3	April 15	Image stitching: motion models, warping, RANSAC [ppt] [pdf]	Szeliski, Ch 5.1, 8.1 (optional) Brown & Lowe, Recognizing Panoramas (optional) Szeliski & Shum, SIGGRAPH '97 RANSAC
	April 17	Image stitching: blending, deghosting	Szeliski, Ch 8.2-8.3	Project 1 due (April 18, 11:59pm) Project 2 assigned
4	April 22	Stitching 2 [ppt] [pdf]
	April 24	Motion estimation [ppt] [pdf]	Szeliski, Ch 7.1-7.2 (skip 7.1.2), 7.4 (optional) Bergen et al. Hierarchical model-based motion estimation. ECCV’92 Szeliski, Ch 14
5	April 29	Object Recognition and Eigenfaces [ppt] [pdf]	Szeliski, Ch 14.2.1	Project 3 assigned
	May 1	Face detection [ppt] [pdf]	Viola et al. Robust Realtime Object Detection. IJCV'01.	Project 2 due (April 30 11:59pm)
6	May 6	Guest lecturer: Richard Newcombe KinectFusion - 3D Modeling using depth camera [pdf]	KinectFusion paper, Newcombe et al. ISMAR'11	Project 4 assigned
	May 8	Light, color [ppt] [pdf] Photometric stereo	Szeliski, Ch 2.3.2
7	May 13	People modeling - large scale [ppt][pdf]	Exploring Photobios, Kemelmacher et al. Collection flow, Kemelmacher et al. Face Reconstruction in the Wild, Kemelmacher et al.	Project 3 due
	May 15	Guest lecturer: Bryan Russel Projective geometry Single view modeling [ppt] [pdf]	Mundy, J.L. and Zisserman, A. Geometric Invariance in Computer Vision, Appendix: Projective Geometry for Machine Vision Single view modeling [Criminisi et al.]	Project 4 proposal due
8	May 20	Stereo [ppt] [pdf] Structure from Motion [ppt] [pdf]	Szeliski, Ch. 10 (optional) D. Scharstein and R. Szeliski. A taxonomy and evaluation of dense two-frame stereo correspondence algorithms. IJCV 2002. Noah Snavely's thesis, Chapter 3 Photo tourism Photosynth
	May 22	Class project proposals	(optional) Forsyth & Ponce, Ch 7	Project 4 status report due
9	May 27	Memorial Day (No Class)
	May 29	Multi-view stereo [ppt][pdf]	Seitz et al. A comparison and evaluation of multi-view stereo reconstruction algorithms. CVPR 2006.
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	June 5
11	June 10	Final project presentations		In-class project presentations
	June 12			Final project writeup due