Date Topic Scribe(s)

Tue 1/25

Overview; why vision is hard; what we'll cover RDZ

Thu 1/27

Image restoration and uniform local operators Ozan Hafizogullari

Tue 2/1

Image restoration and data fitting Maverick Woo

Thu 2/3

Global optimization via simulated annealing Ming Wai Lam

Tue 2/8

Graph cuts for optimization Dion Harmon

Thu 2/10

Guest lecture: Jon Kleinberg on Preflow-push algorithms Vladimir Kolmogorov

Tue 2/15

The Potts model and the Multiway Cut Problem Jason Rohrer

Thu 2/17

Isolating cuts, optimality, stereo matching

Tue 2/22

Guest lecture: Static, Dynamic and Transparent Structure From Motion Shai Avidan

Thu 2/24

Energy minimization with swap- and expansion-moves Kate Jenkins

Tue 2/29

Picking a Good Energy function Milo Polte

Thu 3/2

Gain and bias, outliers, robust statistics Andrew J. Lee

Tue 3/7

Non-parametric correlation, variable windows Michael Shapiro

Thu 3/9

Variable windows

Tue 3/14

Volume Intersection and Camera Geometry Yi Lin

Thu 3/16

Epipolar geometry, probability and statistics

Tue 3/28

Class cancelled

Thu 3/30

Statistics, Markov Random Fields Robert Shcherbakov

Tue 4/4

Guest lecture: Layers P. Anandan

Thu 4/6

Markov Random Fields, Hammersley-Clifford theorem Sergey Kriminski

Tue 4/11

Snakes Ben Cichy

Thu 4/13

Hausdorff distance None

Tue 4/18

Guest lecture: Bayesian Multi-camera Surveillance Vera Kettnaker

Thu 4/20

Hausdorff tracking Xiaochun Shen

Tue 4/25

Guest lecture: Space Carving Kyros Kutulakos

Thu 4/27

Segmentation and Clustering Alex Holub

Tue 5/2

Thu 5/4

Class presentations