Course Outline
April 04 - Introduction to Computer Vision [T&V Chapter 1]
April 06 - Human Visual System, Cues and Illusions
April 11 - Image Formation, Cameras, Projections and Rigid-body Transformations [T&V Chapter 2, pages 26-40]
April 13 - Rigid-body Transformations, Camera Calibration and Lenses
April 18 - Radiometry (Lighting and Shading) [T&V Chapter 2, pages 16-26]
April 20 - Color [Gonzalez and Woods: Chapter 6 on e-reserves, Basics of Color, An FAQ on Color]
April 25 - Binary Image Processing [Robot Vision by Horn, Chapters 2 and 3 on e-reserves]
April 27 - Filtering [T&V, Chapter 3, pages 55-63]
May 02 - Edge Detection [T&V, pages 67-81]
May 04 - Hough Transform [T&V, pages 97-100]
May 09 - Generalized Hough Transform + Line Fitting
May 11 - Midterm
May 16 - Stereo (Introduction) [T&V, pages 140-171]
May 18 - Stereo (Epipolar Geometry)
May 23 - Stereo (Window-based methods + Dynamic Programming + Helmholtz)
May 25 - Photometric Stereo [Forsyth and Ponce, Chapter 5, pages 80-86 on e-reserves]
May 30 - Motion Field [T&V, pages 191-198]
June 01 - Optical Flow [T&V, pages 191-198]
June 06 - Recognition (PCA, Eigenfaces and Fisherfaces) [Forsyth and Ponce, Chapter 22 on e-reserves]
June 08 - Appearance-Based Recognition [T&V, pages 262-270]
June 15 - Final Exam
Last updated June 13, 2006.