Introduction to Computer Vision

cse 527, spring 2011
add cse 522-T04 (#59628) to make it a MS "project class"
T/Th 2:20-3:40 in Chemistry 124
Instructor: Alex Berg
aberg at cs. "yourschool" .edu
Office Hours T/Th 3:40-5:20 Rm 1418 Computer Science Building

Required Textbook: Computer vision: a modern approach
Optional books: here and here

  • Feb 1 lecture 0 (includes course outline and grading system)
  • Feb 3 warm-up for perspective cameras
  • Feb 8 math for perspective cameras and camera calibration part 1
  • Feb 10 math for perspective cameras and camera calibration part 2. Assignment #1 out (use these points for part 4), due Feb 23 midnight. Also see collection of slides from Prof. Lazebnik on cameras here. These notes from Prof. Duraiswami
  • Feb 15 warm-up for illumination and reflectance
  • Feb 17 more illunation and reflectance. See chapters 4,5,6 in text and Prof. Lazebnik's slides
  • Feb 22 matlab demos and examples from recent research on illumination and reflectance. Papers 1, 2, 3
  • Feb 24 color and filtering. See slides from the text book here.
  • March 2 Change blindness, background subtraction, filtering notes and here on filtering.
  • March 4 More filtering and background subtraction.
  • March 8 Test 1
  • March 10 Matlab demonstration. Some examples.
  • March 15 Homework discussion, Intro to: Optical Flow, Expectation Maximization (EM), Classification and Recognition.
  • March 17 More detail on Optical Flow, Expectation Maximization (EM), Classification and Recognition (read this paper and notes 10 here ).
  • March 22 Fitting lines.
  • March 24 Fitting curves and E.M.
  • March 29 See these notes on E.M.
  • March 31 Features for recognition. Homework Assignment 2.
  • April 5 Tracking guest lecture see notes here to prepare...
  • April 7 Feature and classifiers for recognition
  • April 12 Homework due, presentations on proposed projects
  • April 14 Finish classfiers and recognition
  • ...


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