CS6670 Lectures
Many of the following slides are modified from
the excellent class notes of similar courses offered in other schools by Prof
Yung-Yu Chung,
Frédo Durand,
Alexei Efros,
William Freeman,
Svetlana Lazebnik,
Srinivasa Narasimhan,
Steve Seitz,
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.
The following syllabus is tentative, and subject to change.
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Lecture Dates |
Topics |
Materials |
| 0 |
8/27 |
Th |
Introduction and Overview
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ppt, pdf
Readings: Szeliski, Ch. 1
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| 1 |
8/27 |
Th |
Image Filtering
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ppt, pdf
Readings: Szeliski, Ch. 3.1, 3.2
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| 2 |
9/8 |
Tu |
Edge detection and interpolation
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ppt, pdf
Readings: Szeliski, Ch. 3.4.1, 3.4.2
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| 3 |
9/10 |
Th |
Features and Matching
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ppt, pdf
Readings: Szeliski, Ch. 4.1
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| 4 |
9/15 |
Tu |
Cameras
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ppt, pdf
Readings: Szeliski, Ch. 2.2.3, 2.3
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| 5 |
9/17 |
Th |
Camera Projection
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ppt, pdf
Readings: Szeliski, Ch. 2.1
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| 6 |
9/22 |
Tu |
Image Transformations
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Readings: Szeliski, Ch. 3.5, 9.1
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| 7 |
9/24 |
Th |
Panoramas
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Readings: Szeliski, Ch. 9.3
|
| 8 |
9/29 |
Tu |
Optical flow
 |
Guest lecture by Prof. Pedro Felzenszwalb |
| 9 |
10/1 |
Th |
Stereo
 |
Guest lecture by Prof. Pedro Felzenszwalb |
| 10 |
10/6 |
Tu |
Stereo and Graph Cuts
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ppt, pdf
Readings: Szeliski, Ch. 11.2-11.5
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| 11 |
10/8 |
Th |
Structure from Motion
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Readings: Szeliski, Ch. 7.2, Noah Snavely's thesis, Chapter 3
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| 12 |
10/15 |
Th |
Structure from Motion 2
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ppt, pdf
Readings: Szeliski, Ch. 7.2, 7.4, Noah Snavely's thesis, Chapter 3
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| 13 |
10/20 |
Tu |
Multiview Stereo
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ppt, pdf
Readings: Szeliski, Ch. 11.6
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| 14 |
10/22 |
Th |
Intro to Recognition
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ppt, pdf
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| 15 |
10/27 |
Tu |
Face Detection
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ppt, pdf
Readings: Szeliski, Ch. 14.1, 14.2
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| 16 |
10/29 |
Th |
Bag-of-words Models
 |
ppt, pdf
Readings: Szeliski, Ch. 14.4
|
| 17 |
11/3 |
Tu |
Pictorial Structures and Context
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ppt, pdf
Readings: Szeliski, Ch. 14.4, 14.5
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| 18 |
11/5 |
Th |
Recent Advances in Recognition
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ppt, pdf
Readings: Dalal and Triggs, Histograms of oriented gradients for
human detection. CVPR 2005.
Felzenszwalb, et
al., Object
detection with discriminatively trained part based
models. PAMI 2009.
|
| 19 |
11/10 |
Tu |
Projective
Geometry and Single-View Modeling

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ppt, pdf
Readings: Mundy, J.L. and Zisserman, A., Geometric Invariance in
Computer Vision, Appendix: Projective Geometry for Machine
Vision, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1992, (read 23.1 - 23.5,
23.10). Online here.
|
| 20 |
11/12 |
Th |
Light and Reflectance

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ppt, pdf
Readings: Szeliski, 2.2, 2.3.2
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| 21 |
11/17 |
Tu |
Light, reflectance, and photometric stereo

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ppt, pdf
Readings: Szeliski 12.1
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| 22 |
11/19 |
Th |
Computational photography

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ppt, pdf
Readings: Szeliski Chapter 10
|
| 23 |
11/24 |
Tu |
Computational
photography 2

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Readings: Szeliski Chapter 10
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| 24 |
12/1 |
Tu |
Segmentation
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Readings: Szeliski Chapter 5
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