Time and Location:

Tu/Th: 11:00am - 12:15pm, CSI 1122

Grading:

• Projects 50 %
• Homework 25%
• MidTerm 20%
• Class Participation 5%

Reference Books:

All concepts will be covered in class lecture, and in the lecture notes. However, we also recommend the following books as good references:

• Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications, Richard Szeliski, Springer, 2010 online version
• Computer Vision: A Modern Approach: D. Forsythe and J. Ponce, Prentice-Hall, 2003 (available online)
• Digital Image Processing, Prentice Hall, Rafael Gonzalez, and Richard Woods, 2008.
• Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision, Cambridge University Press, Richard Hartley, and Andrew Zisserman, 2003.

Online Resources:

• Computer Vision Compendium CVonline
• Fundamentals on image processing pdf

Date	Topic	Resources	Lecturer	Assignments/Deadlines
Week 1 01/29 01/31	Introduction Image Formation Linear Algebra for Images	Matlab links	Cornelia	Homework 1 (due Feb. 7)
Week 2 02/05 02/07	Background on Estimation K-Means, Gaussian Mixture Model, Expectation Maximization	Notes on Color Segmentation	Cornelia	Project 1: Color Segmentation with GMM (due Feb. 19)
Week 3 02/12 02/14	Image Processing Convolution, Filters		Mohammad
Week 4 02/19 02/21	Edge Detection Histograms		Mohammad	Homework 2: Features and Warping (due Feb. 28)
Week 5 02/26 02/28	SIFT Homography Estimation, RANSAC		Mohammad Cornelia	Project 2: Panorama Stitching (due March 18)
Week 6 03/05 03/07	Hough Transform Image Motion	Practice Questions Solutions	Mohammad Cornelia
Week 7 03/12 03/14	Review Texture Mid-Term	Solutions to Midterm	Cornelia	Project 3: Graphcut Segmentation (due April 11)
Week of Spring Break	Spring Break
Week 8 03/26 03/28	Segmentation Segmentation with Graphs		Cornelia
Week 9 04/02 04/04	Tracking Depth from Stereo		Cornelia
Week 10 04/09 04/11	Epipolar Geometry 3D Motion		Cornelia
Week 11 04/16 04/18	Instance Recognition Category Recognition, Bag of Words		Mohammad	Homework 3: Bag of Features Recognition (due April 27)
Week 12 04/23 04/25	NN Classification, SVM Introduction to Neural Networks		Mohammad	Project 4: CNN Classification (due May 17)
Week 13 04/30 05/02	Convolutional Neural Networks		Mohammad
Week 14 05/07 05/09	Semantic Segmentation Vsion and Cognition		Mohammad  Cornelia
Week 15 05/14	Wrap-up and Project Discussion		Mohammad