COS 429: Computer Vision, Fall 2013

Tentative Schedule

Date	Lecture (click for notes)	Required Readings	Optional Readings
Thu, Sep 12	Introduction	Ch. 1.1,
Fri, Sep 13	Precept 0
Tue, Sep 17	Image formation	Ch. 2, Ch 10.1
Thu, Sep 19	Image analysis	Ch. 3.1-3.4, 4.2, [Trucco98]	[Canny86]
Sun, Sep 22	Assignment 0 due
Tue, Sep 24	Primitive detection	Ch. 4.3	[Ballard81]
Wed, Sep 25	Precept 1
Thu, Sep 26	Segmentation I	Ch. 5.1	[Kass88] [Williams92]
Tue, Oct 1	Segmentation II	Ch. 5.2-5.5	[Martin02] [Shi00]
Thu, Oct 3	Texture analysis	Ch. 10.5,	[Tuceryan98] [Barnes09]
Sun, Oct 6	Assignment 1 due
Tue, Oct 8	Feature detection	Ch 6.1	[Lowe04]
Wed, Oct 9	Precept 2
Thu, Oct 10	Image mosaics	Ch 9	[Brown03]
Tue, Oct 15	Camera geometry I	Ch. 6.2-6.3, Ch. 7
Thu, Oct 17	Camera geometry II	Ch. 11.1
Tue, Oct 22	Optical flow	Ch. 8.4	[Lucas81]
Wed, Oct 23	Precept 3
Thu, Oct 24	Object tracking	Ch 8.1-8.3
Fri, Oct 25	Assignment 2 due
Tue, Oct 29	Fall break
Thu, Oct 31	Fall break
Tue, Nov 5	Stereo	Ch. 11.2-11.5	[Brown03] [Scharstein02]
Wed, Nov 6	Precept 4
Thu, Nov 7	Multiview stereo	Ch. 11.6	[Seitz97]
Tue, Nov 12	Active scanning	Ch. 6.2-6.3, 12.1
Thu, Nov 14	Shape analysis
Tue, Nov 19	Object detection I	Ch. 14.1	[Viola01] [Dalal05]
Thu, Nov 21	Object detection II	14.2-3	[Felzenszwalb10]
Sun, Nov 24	Assignment 3 due
Tue, Nov 26	Object classification	Ch. 14.4	[Csurka04] [Lazebnik06]
Thu, Nov 28	Thanksgiving break
Tue, Dec 3	Project proposal talks
Wed, Dec 4	Precept 5
Thu, Dec 5	Guest Lecture 1 (Jianxiong Xiao)
Tue, Dec 10	Guest Lecture 2 (Harpreet Sawhney)
Thu, Dec 12	Putting it all together
Sun, Dec 15	Assignment 4 due
Tue, Jan 14	Final project reports due
Thu, Jan 16	Final project presentations

Lectures are 3:00-4:20 in Friend 006.
Precepts are 7:30-8:20 in CS 105.