Advanced Vision

cse 615, fall 2010
Instructor: Alex Berg
aberg at cs. "yourschool" .edu
Office Hours T/Th 3:40-5:10 Rm 1418 Computer Science Building lecture 0 -- Introduction and Assignment 1, Aug 31, 2010 lecture 1 -- Image formation and prep for Assignment 1 (due Sept 13, midnight via e-mail) lecture 2 -- Student Introductions and brief discussion of rendering equations for Assignment 1. lecture 3 -- Discussion of light transport and surface materials. lecture 4 -- Parsing, to read for next class. lecture 5 -- Discussion of TextonBoost. lecture 5 -- Discussion of this paper about detection for the next class. Introduce Assignment 2 (due Oct 7) lecture 6 -- Discussion of papers 1 & 2 about boosting for the assignment. See here for train and test data (*_64x128_H96 directories) lecture 7 -- Background on PAC learning lecture 8 -- Background on PAC learning and Boosting lecture 9 -- Background on Boosting and assignment 2 lecture 10 -- assignment 2 lecture 11 -- Discussion of segmentation vs sliding windows and projects. We will discuss this paper and this paper next class lecture 12 -- Segmentation and learning feature representations lecture 13 -- Correspondence (make 3 slides with problem statement, examples of data, and desired output for next Thursday lecture 14 -- SVMs lecture 15 -- Thursday Nov. 4 Student Project Reports, "The Beginning" lecture 15 -- SPM (Lazebnik et al) vs Boosting (Viola et al) vs lSVM (Felenszwalb et al) A possible reference book: "Computer Vision a Modern Approach" by Forsyth and Ponce. Prentice Hall 2003.