CSC 589, Spring 2015

Many of the slides are modified from the excellent class notes of similar courses offered in other schools by Prof James Hays, Noah Savely, Jianbo Shi, Marshall Tappen, Fredo Durand, Alexei Efros, William Freeman, Svetlana Lazebnik, Srinivasa Narasimhan, Richard Szeliski, and Li Zhang. The instructor is extremely thankful to the researchers for making their notes available online. Please feel free to use and modify any of the slides, but acknowledge the original sources where appropriate.

Tentative Syllabus

Lecture Date

Topic Material Homeworks
1 1/12 M What is Computer Vision?
ppt, pdf

Readings: Szeliski, Ch. 1

2 1/15 Th Linear Filter
ppt, pdf,DemoCode

Readings: Szeliski, Ch.3.1 and 3.2

3 1/22 Th Gaussian Filter, Scipy tutorial
ppt, pdf,Filtering.py

Readings: Szeliski, Ch. 3.2, Solem, Ch.3.

Homework 1 is out
4 1/26 M Border Effect, Image Derivatives
ppt, pdf

Readings: Szeliski, Ch.3.3

5 1/29 Th Linear Algebra
ppt, pdf

Readings: geometric view of linear algebra

6 2/2 M Image derivatives, Median filter, Image denoising
ppt, pdf

Readings: Szeliski, Ch 3.3.1 Median Filter; Solem, Ch 1

Homework 1 is due
7 2/5 Th Thinking in Frequency, Fourier Transforms
ppt, pdf,
Demo code on FFT

Readings: Szeliski, Ch 3.4

8 2/9 M Filtering in Fourier Space, Python Exercises
ppt, pdf ImageFilering.py
FFTAnalysis.py

Readings: Discrete FFT

Homework 2 is out
Guest Lecture 2/12 Th Guest Lecture: Katerina Fragkiadaki , Video Segmentation and Multi-Object tracking in the Era of Deep Learning
ppt, pdf,
9 2/16 M Image Sampling, Aliasing
ppt, pdf

Readings: Aliasing

10 2/19 Th Image Pyramids
ppt, pdf,
11 2/23 M Image Blending
ppt, pdf

Readings: Chapter 3.5

Homework 3 is out
12 2/26 Th Edge Detection
ppt, pdf,
13 3/2 M The Dress and color constancy
ppt, pdf

Readings: Chapter 2.3

14 3/5 Th Boundary Detection
ppt, pdf,
No Class 3/6-3/15 M/Th Spring Break No Classes
Homework 3 is due
15 3/16 M Feature Detection, Harris Corner
ppt, pdf

Readings: Chapter 4.1.1, Solem Chapter 2

Mid-term Take-home due
16 3/23 Th Harris Corner, Blob Detection, Mid-term review
ppt, pdf

Readings: Chapter 4.1.1, Solem Chapter 2

17 3/26 M Scale Invariance, Midterm
ppt, pdf

Readings: Chapter 4.1, Solem Chapter 2

18 3/30 Th Feature Discription, SIFT
ppt, pdf

Readings: Chapter 4.1.1, Solem Chapter 2

19 4/2 M feature matching
ppt, pdf

Readings: Chapter 4.1.2, Solem Chapter 2

20 4/6 Th Geometric Transformation, Affine transformation
ppt, pdf

Readings: Chapter 2.1, Solem Chapter 3

21 4/9 Th Homographies, Projective geometry
ppt, pdf

Readings: Chapter 3.6, Solem Chapter 3

Homework 4 is out
22 4/13 M Image Alignment and RASANC
ppt, pdf

Readings: 4.1, 6.1

Readings:Review of System of linear equations

Readings:Image Alignment

23 4/16 Th Camera Models
ppt, pdf

Readings:

24 4/20 M Introduction to machine learning
ppt, pdf

Readings:ppt">Intro to Machine learning

25 4/27 M Introduction to Recognition
ppt, pdf

Readings:

Homework 4 is due
26 4/30 Thur Final Exam Week No class
27 6/4 M Final Projects Due