COS 429 - Computer Vision

Fall 2007

by Fei-Fei Li

Course home Syllabus and lecture notes Course project

 

Annoucements

9/17/2007: Classroom is changed to CS 102.

9/18/2007: Please join the course mailing list as soon as possible. Be sure to check the list archive ( you'll see it on the list page ) if you joined late.

9/19/2007: There will be two precepts: (1)Linear Algebra tutorial, 9/25, Tue, 8-9pm, 102 CS Bldg; (2)Matlab tutorial, 10/3, Wed, 8-9pm, 102 CS Bldg.

9/20/2007: Homework 1 is up.

9/25/2007: The slides of the first precept ( linear algebra review ) are here.

9/27/2007: Homework 2 is up.

10/9/2007: Homework 3 is up.

10/18/2007: Homework 4 is up.

10/18/2007: Homework 5 is up.

 



Instructor: Prof. Fei-Fei Li

Office: 211 Computer Science Bldg.

Phone: (609) 258-8130

Email: feifeili @ cs

Office hour: Friday 5-6pm

 

TA: Jia Deng

Office: 316 Computer Science Bldg.

Phone: (609) 258-5386

Email:  jiadeng @ cs

Office hour: Wednesday 3-5pm or by appointment

 

Course Description

An introduction to the concepts of 2D and 3D computer vision. Topics include: cameras and projection models, low-level image processing methods such as filtering and edge detection; mid-level vision topics such as segmentation and clustering; shape reconstruction from stereo. as well as high-level vision tasks such as object recognition, face detection and human motion categorization.

 

Prerequisites

Linear algebra

COS 217 and/or COS 226

Some knowledge of probability, statistics

 

Course mailing list: https://lists.cs.princeton.edu/mailman/listinfo/cos429

(Please join the mailing list as soon as possible. )

 

Course website: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall07/cos429/

 

Course location and time:

       Tuesday & Thursday, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 102 CS Bldg

 

Text book:

Computer Vision – A Modern Approach, by D.A. Forsyth and J. Ponce

 

Course assignments:

       5 homework

       1 wiki page project

       1 final project

 

Grading policy:

       Attendance and class participation: 10%

       Homework: 40%

       Wiki project: 10% 

       Final project: 40% 

       Late policy: 50% if one day late and NO credit if more than one day.

 

Important dates:

       Homework due dates (9/27, 10/9, 10/18, 11/6, 11/15)

       Wiki project due date (12/11)

       Final project presentation (1/14)

       Final project write-up due (1/15/08)