Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Magritte_Key_To_The_Fields.jpgComputer Vision (CS 543 / ECE 549) – Spring 2011

 

Class Time and Place: Tues, Thurs 2:00-3:15 at Everitt 241

 

Instructors

Email

Office

Office Hours

Derek Hoiem

dhoiem

Siebel 3312

Wed 4-5pm

Ian Endres (TA)

iendres2

Siebel 3307

Mon 3-4pm,

Thurs 3:30-4:30pm

 

                           The False Mirror, Magritte, 1928

 

Syllabus

 

Bulletin Board 

http://groups.google.com/group/cs543-spring2011-uiuc

 

Anonymous Feedback

https://illinois.edu/sb/sec/362368

 

Homeworks

HW1 due Feb 15: assignment ; materials

HW2 due Mar 10:  assignment ; materials

HW3 due April 5: assignment ; p1 materials ; p3 materials 

HW 4 due April 26: assignment ; materials

 

Final Project: guidelines; examples; proposed projects

    Poster Session: May 10, 10:30am, Siebel Center 2405

     Paper: May 11 noon (or at poster session) – cannot accept late papers

 

Resources

Recommended Textbooks: 

Computer Vision: A Modern Approach, Forsyth and Ponce 2002

Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision by Hartley and Zisserman 2004

 

Other Useful Books:

Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications by Rick Szeliski 2010 (online, or can be purchased in hardcover)

Computer Vision by Linda Shapiro and George Stockman 2001

Matlab: Useful Functions List; Reference Guide; Writing Fast Code

 

 

Schedule (subject to change)

Note: FP5 is short for Forsyth and Ponce chapter 5; HZ6 for Hartley and Zisserman chapter 6; and Sz7 for Szeliski chapter 7. 

Date

Topic

Slides

Reading / Notes

Jan 18 (Tues)

Intro: Logistics and Overview

pdf ; ppt

 

 

Image Formation and Basic Processing

 

 

Jan 20 (Thurs)

Camera Models and Projective Geometry

pdf ; ppt

Perspective Ch Draft - Hoiem, Savarese

FP1-2 (camera models)

HZ6-7 (camera models, calibration)

Jan 25 (Tues)

Single-view Metrology and Camera Calibration

pdf ; ppt

HZ8 (single view geometry)

Criminisi et al. 2000

Cross-ratio proof by Varsha Hedau

Jan 27 (Thurs)

Light and Color

pdf ; ppt (zip)

FP4-6 (Radiometry, Shading, Color)

Feb 1 (Tues)

Pixels and Image Filters

pdf ; ppt

FP7.1-7.2 (linear filters)

S3.2 (linear filtering)

S3.3 (non-linear filtering)

Feb 3 (Thurs)

Thinking in Frequency

pdf ; ppt

FP7.3-7.4 (FFT and frequency)

S3.4 (fourier transforms)

S2.3.3 (compression)

FFT Matlab demo

Feb 8 (Tues)

Templates, Image Pyramids, and Applications

pdf ; ppt

FP7.5-7.7, 9.2 (templates, pyramids)

S3.5.2 (image pyramids)

S8.1.1 (pyramid alignment)

Burt Adelson 1983 – The Laplacian Pyramid

 

Grouping and Fitting

 

 

Feb 10 (Thurs)

Edge Detection and Line Fitting w/ Hough Transform

pdf ; ppt

FP8 (edge detection)

S4.2 (edges)

S4.3 (lines)

Berkeley Pb Detector

Feb 15 (Tues)

Robust fitting (RANSAC) and Registration

pdf ; ppt

HW 1 due

FP15 (Fitting and Registration)

line fitting demo

Feb 17 (Thurs)

Clustering and K-means

pdf ; ppt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_analysis

FP14 (clustering)

Spectral Clustering Tutorial – von Luxburg

Feb 22 (Tues)

EM algorithm, mixture of Gaussians

pdf ; ppt

EM Tutorial by Bilmes

FP16.1-16.2 (EM)

EM demo

Feb 24 (Thurs)

MRFs and Graph Cuts

pdf ; ppt

What Energy Functions can be Minimized via Graph Cuts? - Kolmogorov and Zabih

Mar 1 (Tues)

Image Segmentation and Gestalt cues

pdf ; ppt

Intro to Mean-Shift -- Thirumuruganathan

Boundaries and WatershedArbelaez et al. 2009

 

Recognition

 

 

Mar 3 (Thurs)

Interest Points: SIFT and Matching

Speaker: Ian Endres

ppt ; pdf

Grauman/Leibe Draft Chapter on Local Features

Optional: Lowe - SIFT paper

Mar 8 (Tues)

Object Instance Recognition w/ Hough-based Geometric Verification

ppt ; pdf

Lowe-Object Recognition 

Grauman/Leibe Draft Visual Vocabularies S14.3

Mar 10 (Thurs)

Face Recognition w/ PCA, LDA

Speaker: Ali Farhadi

ppt ; pdf

HW 2 due

FP22.3.1-2; S14.1;

Optional: Face recognition: A Literature Survey (pp 1-26)

Mar 15 (Tues)

Image Features and Categorization

ppt ; pdf

Hoiem/Savarese draft categorization

S14.4.1

Mar 17 (Thurs)

More w/ Classifiers + Object Categories

ppt ; pdf

See slides for suggested reading

Mar 22, 24

No Class -- Spring Break!

Mar 29 (Tues)

Detection with Sliding Windows

ppt ; pdf

S14.2; Viola-Jones 2001

Mar 31 (Thurs)

Pictorial Structures and Distance Transform

Speaker: Ian Endres

ppt ; pdf

Project Proposal due

Grauman/Leibe Draft Parts-based Models ; S14.4.2

Pictorial Structures (Felz.&Hutt 2005)

Multiple Views and Motion

 

Apr 5 (Tues)

Image Stitching

ppt ; pdf

HW 3 due

Brown Lowe 2007 ; (panoramic stitching)

HZ4.1, HZ4.7 (direct linear transform, RANSAC)

Optional: S9 (Image Stitching)

Apr 7 (Thurs)

Feature Tracking and Optical Flow

ppt ; pdf

Seminal paper: Lucas Kanade 1981

KLT Tracker

Apr 12 (Tues)

Epipolar Geometry and Stereo

ppt ; pdf

HZ9: Epipolar Geometry

Apr 14 (Thurs)

Structure from Motion

ppt ; pdf

Seminal paper: Tomasi Kanade 1992

S7, FP12: Structure from Motion

Apr 19 (Tues)

Object Tracking

ppt ; pdf

Forsyth and Ponce v2 Tracking draft

Advanced Topics

Apr 21 (Thurs)

Action Recognition

ppt ; pdf

See slides for linked references

Apr 26 (Tues)

3D Scenes and Context

ppt ; pdf

HW 4 due

Hoiem and Savarese: Chapters 4, 6, 11

Apr 28 (Thurs)

Opportunities of Scale

ppt ; pdf

May 3 (Tues)

Last Class: Summary, Important Open Problems, and Feedback

ppt ; pdf

 

May 10 (Tues)

Poster session at SC2405

 

 

May 11 (Wed)

Final Paper due

 

 

 

 



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