Schedule (tentative)

Date Topic Readings (F&P 2nd ed.), assignments
August 27 Introduction: What Computer Vision DoesPPTX, PDF Self-study: See resources for Python and linear algebra tutorials, feel free to try U Mich EECS442 Mastery Assignment as a warmup
August 29
  • Upsampling, Smoothing and Downsampling PPTX, PDF
  • Geometric Image Transformations: PPTX, PDF
Sep 3

  • Geometric Image Transformations

Homework: Assignment 1 Draft

Reading:
Sep 5 I am away; lecture is by video, below

  • Patterns, Smoothing and Filters

Homework: Assignment 1 Draft

Reading:
Sep 10
Sep 12
  • Denoising Images using Optimization PPTX, PDF
 Reading:
Sep 17
  • Edges, Corners, and Keypoints
    • Edges and edge detection PDF, PPTX
    • Corners and keypoints PDF, PPTX

      I did not lecture the block on deriving the Harris corner detector criterion, but it does appear on the quiz

Assignment 1 due!

Reading:
Sep 19
  • Denoising Images using Distant Pixels PPTX PDF
 Reading:
Sep 24
  • Forming and Using Patch Dictionaries PPTX, PDF

The first quiz will start being available today on canvas. When you decide to start the quiz, you'll get 90 mins to answer 25 straightforward questions. Time is calculated to be much more than you need. The window for the quiz will be open for one week.

 Reading:
Sep 26 I am away; lecture is by video, below

  • Voting and its Applications: PPTX, PDF

Homework: Assignment 2 Draft Due Oct 15

Reading:
Oct 1 Reading:
Oct 3

I was ill Movies in Lieu of lecture will appear when I've reached a topic I can encapsulate

 Reading:
Oct 8 Reading:
Oct 10 Reading:
Oct 15
  • Making an AutoEncoder that Works: PPTX, PDF

Homework: Assignment 3 Draft Due Oct 30

Final project rules and information

Reading:
Oct 17 I am away; lecture is by video, below

 Reading:
Oct 22

The second quiz will start being available today on canvas. When you decide to start the quiz, you'll get 90 mins to answer 25 straightforward questions covering everything to date, but mostly stuff after the first quiz. Time is calculated to be much more than you need. The window for the quiz will be open for one week.

 Reading:
Oct 25 Reading:
No date, but in lieu of Oct 3 when I was ill.
Oct 29 Reading:
Oct 31 Reading:
Nov 5 Reading:
Nov 7 Reading:
Nov 12 Reading:
  • No notes yet: use the slides and movie
Nov 15

We've been running a little slow, so we actually did Stereopsis on this day.
Nov 19 Reading:

    F&P ch. 8

    I don't yet have a new SFM chapter.

Quiz 3: out today; available until 5 Dec on the theory that Thanksgiving week doesn't exist

Assignment 5: is here, out today, due 11 Dec on the theory that Thanksgiving week doesn't exist
Nov 21 Reading: Multi-view Stereo: A Tutorial by Y. Furukawa and C. Hernandez, 2015. (This will be far more than most people need, but it's extremely informative)
November 26 Thanksgiving break
November 29 Thanksgiving break
Dec 3 Reading:
Dec 5 Reading:
Dec 10 Reading: