Computer Vision (CS 543 / ECE 549) – Spring
2012
Class Time and Place: Tues, Thurs
2:00-3:15 at Siebel Center 1302
Instructors
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Email/Skype
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Office
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Office
Hours
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Derek Hoiem
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dhoiem /
derekhoiem
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Siebel 3312
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Wed 4pm,
Wed 8pm (skype only)
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Ruiqi Guo (TA)
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guo29
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Siebel 3307
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Mon 7pm, Thur
4pm
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Amin Sadeghi
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msadegh2 / m.a.sadeghi
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Siebel 3307
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Friday 5pm (week before hw due only)
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The
False Mirror, Magritte, 1928
Syllabus
Lecture
Recordings
Bulletin Board
http://groups.google.com/group/cs543-spring2012-uiuc
Homeworks
HW
1: due Feb 14 [assignment] [materials]
[solutions]
HW
2: due Feb 28 [assignment] [materials]
[solutions]
HW
3: due Mar 13 [assignment] [materials] [solutions]
HW
4: due Apr 03 [assignment] [materials]
[solutions]
HW
5: due Apr 17 [assignment] [materials]
Final Project:
guidelines ; proposals (poster due May 4; paper due May 8)
Resources
Recommended
Textbook:
Computer
Vision: A Modern Approach (2nd edition), Forsyth and Ponce 2011
Other
Useful Books:
Multiple
View Geometry in Computer Vision by Hartley and Zisserman 2004
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: FP 5 is short for Forsyth and Ponce chapter 5; HZ 6 for Hartley
and Zisserman chapter 6; and S 7 for Szeliski chapter 7.
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Topic |
Slides |
Reading / Notes |
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Jan 17 (Tues) |
Intro: Logistics and Overview |
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Interpreting
Intensity |
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Jan 19 (Thurs) |
Light, Shading, and Color |
FP 2 (light and shading) FP 3 (color) |
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Jan 24 (Tues) |
Linear Filters, Spatial Domain |
FP 4.1-4.2 (linear filters) |
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Jan 26 (Thurs) |
Linear Filters, Frequency Domain |
FP 4.3-4.4 (spatial frequency, fft, sampling) |
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Jan 31 (Tues) |
Templates and Image Pyramids |
FP 4.5-4.7 (template matching, pyramids) |
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Feb 2 (Thurs) |
Edge Detection |
FP 5.1-5.2 (edge detection) |
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Correspondence and
Alignment |
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Feb 7 (Tues) |
Interest points |
FP 5.3-5.5 (interest points) Grauman/Leibe Draft
Chapter on Local Features Important paper: Lowe - SIFT paper |
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Feb 9 (Thurs) |
Feature tracking, optical flow |
FP 11.1 (feature tracking) Seminal paper: Lucas
Kanade 1981 |
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Feb 14 (Tues) |
Fitting and registration |
HW 1 due FP 10.1-10.4 (robust fitting) |
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Feb 16 (Thurs) |
Alignment and object instance recognition |
FP 12.1-12.2 (object alignment) Seminal Paper: Lowe-Object
Recognition |
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Perspective and 3D Geometry |
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Feb 21 (Tues) |
Camera models |
FP 1 (image formation) HZ6-7 (camera models, calibration) |
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Feb 23 (Thurs) |
Single-view geometry and calibration |
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Feb 28 (Tues) |
Image stitching |
HW 2 due Brown Lowe 2007 ; (panoramic stitching) HZ4.1, HZ4.7 (direct linear transform, RANSAC) |
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Mar 1 (Thurs) |
Epipolar geometry, stereo |
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Mar 6 (Tues) |
Structure from motion |
Seminal paper: Tomasi Kanade 1992 |
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Grouping and Segmentation |
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Mar 8 (Thurs) |
Clustering, K-means |
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Mar 13 (Tues) |
Gestalt Cues and Image Segmentation |
HW 3 due FP 9.3-9.5 (segmentation) Intro
to Mean-Shift -- Thirumuruganathan Boundaries
and Watershed – Arbelaez et
al. 2009 |
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Mar 15 (Thurs) |
EM Algorithm, Mixture of Gaussians |
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Mar 20, 22 |
No Class -- Spring Break! |
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Mar 27 (Tues) |
MRFs and Graph Cut Segmentation |
What Energy
Functions can be Minimized via Graph Cuts? - Kolmogorov and Zabih |
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Categorization and Object
Recognition |
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Mar 29 (Thurs) |
Face recognition |
Project Proposals due |
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Apr 3 (Tues) |
Image features and categorization Presented by Ruiqi Guo |
HW 4 due |
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Apr 5 (Thurs) |
Classification |
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Apr 10 (Tues) |
Object detection with statistical templates |
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Apr 12 (Thurs) |
Object detection with parts-based models |
Grauman/Leibe Draft
Parts-based Models ; Pictorial
Structures (Felz.&Hutt 2005) |
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Apr 17 (Tues) |
Object tracking with Kalman
filters Guest Lecture: Amin Sadeghi |
HW 5 due FP 11 (tracking) |
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Advanced Topics |
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Apr 19 (Thurs) |
Action Recognition |
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Apr 24 (Tues) |
Recognition in an open universe Guest Lecture: Lana Lazebnik |
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Apr 26 (Thurs) |
3D Scenes and Context |
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May 1 (Tues) |
Last Class: Summary, Important Open Problems,
and Feedback |
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May 4 (Fri) |
Poster Presentations
(SC2405, 1:30-4:30pm) |
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May 8 (Tues) |
Final Project Papers due
(11:59pm) |
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