COS 429 - Computer Vision

Fall 2008

by Fei-Fei Li

Course home Syllabus and lecture notes Course project Results
    

Lecture #

Date

Description

Course Materials

Lecturer

HW

1

Thurs, Sept 11

Administration What is computer vision?

slides

 

 

2

Tues, Sept 16

Face recognition: Classification, Eigenfaces & Fisherfaces

slides

Belhumbeur et al, 1997;

Turk & Pentland, 1991;

Weber et al, 2000;

PCA handout;

 

 

3

Thurs, Sept 18

Boosting: Face recognition and AdaBoost

slides

Viola and Jones, 2004;

Dr. Andras Ferencz

 

4

Tues, Sept 23

Camera I: projection models

slides

Reading Materials

 

Hw1p1 due

 

Tues, Sept 23, 7:30pm~8:30pm, in Friend Center 202

Evening tutorial #1:

OpenCV, AdaBoost (useful for hw #4)

slides1

Useful Online Resource

Min

 

5

Thurs, Sept 25

Camera II: projection models

 

 

 

6

Tues, Sept 30

Multi-view geometry

slides

Reading Materials

 

HW 2 due

 

Tues, Sept 30, 7:30pm~8:30pm, Friend 202

Evening tutorial #2:

Matlab tutorial

Online Matlab tutorial slides

Min

 

7

Thurs, Oct 2

Camera motion estimation: Direct methods

slides

Dr. Harpreet Sawhney

Frontal Face classifier's XML files

8

Tues, Oct 7

Multi-view geometry (stereo)

slides

Reading Materials

 

 

9

Thurs, Oct 9

Clustering and Segmentation

slides

Shi & Malik, 2000

 

 

10

Tues, Oct 14

Linear filter, edges

slides

Reading Material1

Reading Material2

 

HW3 due

11

Thurs, Oct 16

Image building blocks: Detectors and Descriptors

slides

Wiki

 

 

12

Tues, Oct 21

Single object recognition & Panorama stitching

slides

Brown & Lowe ICCV, 2003;

Lowe IJCV, 2000;

 

 

13

Thurs, Oct 23

Camera motion estimation: Applications, image mosaicing

slides slides2

Dr. Harpreet Sawhney

 

14

Tues, Nov 4

Features based tracking: KLT, Lucas-Kanade trackers

 

Dr. Andras Ferencz

HW4 due

 

Tues, Nov 4, 7:30pm~8:30pm, Friend 202

Evening tutorial #3:

OpenCV: optical flow (useful for hw#5)

slides

Useful Materials

Min

 

15

Thurs, Nov 6

Object categorization: bag of words

Intro slides

BOW slides

 

 

16

Tues, Nov 11

Object categorization (con't)

Part based models slides

 

 

17

Thurs, Nov 13

Object categorization (con't)

Discriminative models slides

 

 

18

Tues, Nov 18

Object categorization (con't)

Combined segmentation and recognition slides

 

HW5 due

 

Thurs, Nov 20

CLASS CANCELED

 

 

 

19

Tues, Nov 25

Chamfer matching, distance transform

 

Dr. Andras Ferencz

 

20

Tues, Dec 2

Walking or jumping? Human motion understanding

slides

Juan Carlos Niebles

HW6 due

21

Thurs, Dec 4

Motion estimation apps: image mosaicing

slides

Dr. Harpreet Sawhney

 

22

Tues, Dec 9

Following the target: Real-time tracking

 

Dr. Harpreet Sawhney

 

23

Thurs, Dec 11

Brain and Vision: Biologically inspired vision

 

 

 

 

Fri, Dec 12

Preliminary submission of the final project (optional)

 

 

Hw1p2 due

 

Tues, Jan 13

Final Project Write-up due, and submit codes

 

 

 

 

TBA in Jan 14 ~ 16

Presentation and winner announcement