Course calendar (tentative--subject to change)

The course calendar below gives the lecture topics, assignment and due dates for projects, as well as the readings and demos
The calendar is subject to change during the quarter, and we will remind you as each of the due dates comes near.

Week

Topics

Readings

Assignments

Demos

1

January 8

Introduction [ppt, pdf, html]
Images      
[ppt, pdf, html

• Forsyth & Ponce, chapter 8 (in reader)

 

 

image warping applet
 

10

Filtering (see "Images" slides)
Image scissors
[ppt, pdf, html]

Mortensen, Intelligent Scissors

Project 1 assigned

 

 

2

15

Edge detection [ppt, pdf, html]
Resampling     
[ppt, pdf, html]

Cipolla & Gee on edge detection

 

 

snoop (image zoom) program

17
Features
  [ppt, pdf, html]
 

Brown, MOPS

 

 

SIFT
autostitch

 

3

22   

Cameras  [pdf, html, ppt]

• Nalwa 2.1 (reader)

 

tutorial on digital cameras
camera/photography terms
thin lens applet

24
Mosaics  [pdf, html, ppt]

Szeliski & Shum, Mosaics. Read sections 1 and 2, skim the rest. (more details may be found in tech report version (optional))

Project 1 due

Project 2 assigned

full-screen panoramas
seattle panorama site alignment image (load into photoshop)
AutoStitch

4

29

Mosaics (cont.)

 

 

 

31
Projective geometry and

single view modeling
          
[pdf, html, ppt]

 Mundy & Zisserman, Projective Geometry (read  23.1 - 23.5, 23.10)

 

virtual museum (by Criminisi et al.)
related methods:UW, MIT

5

February 5

single view modeling (cont.)

 

 

 

 

7

Stereo  [pdf, html, ppt]

• Trucco & Verri, Chapter 7
Read through 7.1, 7.2.1, 7.2.2, 7.3.1, 7.3.2, 7.3.7 and 7.4, 7.4.1. (rest is optional)

Project 2 due

Friday:  Midterm assigned

epipolar geometry applet, Digital Michelangelo Project
video view interpolation
spacetime stereo
view morphing video

6

12 (Noah Snavely guest lecture)

Structure from Motion

 [pdf, html, ppt]

Snavely et al., Photo Tourism.

• (optional) Szeliski & Kang. Recovering 3D shape and motion from image streams using non-linear least squares

 

 

 

photo tourism

14
Light, color, and reflection

[pdf, html, ppt]

• Glassner, pp. 5-32.

• Watt, pp. 64-71, 103-114 (5.3 is optional)

Friday:  Midterm due

Project 3 assigned

 illusions:  brightness contrast, after-images, demos:  metamers, HDR (Debevec, Columbia)

7

19
Photometric stereo

[pdf, html, ppt]

Forsyth & Ponce, Chap 5.4

 

 

21
Recognition [pdf, html, ppt]

• Bishop, Chapter 1
Forsyth and Ponce, Chap 22.3 (through 22.3.2--eigenfaces)

 

 

8

26

Segmentation [pdf, html, ppt]

 

 

 Shapiro, pp. 279-289

 

 

 K-means clustering applet,
EM applet,
morphological operators
mass-spring movies:  movie1, movie2

28
Guest lecture (Richard Ladner)

Tactile graphics

 

Project 3 due

Project 4 assigned

 

9

March 4

Motion [pdf, html, ppt]

 

• Trucco & Verri, 8.3 – 8.4 (skip 8.3.3), (reader)
Numerical Recipes (Newton-Raphson), 9.4 (first four pages only)

 

rotating cube illusion
barber pole illusion

6
Motion (continued)

 

 

 

10

11

texture [pdf, html, ppt]
 

 • Efros & Leung, texture synthesis

 

 

 Alyosha Efros' texture synthesis page, graphcut textures, image analogies, flow-based video editing

13
Review [pdf, html, ppt]

 

Project 4 due

 

Finals
Week

20

 

Final exam:
March 20
10:30-12:20
in EE 037