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.

Lecture Dates

Topics Materials
0 1/24 M Introduction and Overview
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Readings: Szeliski, Ch. 1

2 1/26 W Image Filtering
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Readings: Szeliski, Ch. 3.1, 3.2

3 1/31 M Image Resampling
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Readings: Szeliski, Ch. 3.4, 3.5

3a 1/31 M Feature Detection
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Readings: Szeliski, Ch. 4.1

4 2/2 W Feature matching
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Readings: Szeliski, Ch. 4.1

5 2/7 M Cameras and Projection
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Readings: Szeliski, Ch. 2

6 2/9 W Image Warps and Projection
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Readings: Szeliski, Ch. 3.5, 9.1

7 2/14 M Panoramas
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Readings: Szeliski, Ch.6.1, Ch. 9

8 W 2/16 Image alignment and RANSAC
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Readings: Szeliski, Ch.6.1

9 M 2/21 Single-View Modeling
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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.

10 W 2/23 Stereo
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Readings: Szeliski, Ch. 11

11 2/28 M Two-view geometry
 
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Readings: Szeliski, Ch. 7.2

12 3/2 W Structure from Motion
 
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Readings: Szeliski, Ch. 7.2, 7.4, Noah Snavely's thesis, Chapter 3

13 Multiview Stereo
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Readings: Szeliski, Ch. 11.6

14 Intro to Recognition
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15 Face Detection
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Readings: Szeliski, Ch. 14.1, 14.2

16 Bag-of-words Models
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Readings: Szeliski, Ch. 14.4

17 Pictorial Structures and Context
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Readings: Szeliski, Ch. 14.4, 14.5

18

Context and Segmentation

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Readings:

19

Graph Cuts

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Readings:

20

Light and Reflectance

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Readings: Szeliski, 2.2, 2.3.2

21

Photometric stereo

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Readings: Szeliski 12.1

22

Computational photography 1 (HDR)

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Readings: Szeliski Chapter 10.2

23

Computational photography 2

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Readings: Szeliski Chapter 10

24

Recent work in recognition

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Readings: Szeliski Chapter 14.5
Kumar, et al., Attribute and Simile Classifiers for Face Verification

25

Multi-view stereo 2

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26

Vision for the Internet

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