Calendar: CSC2503 Foundations of Computer Vision

Below is a tentative calendar for the the course lectures and tutorials. This will be subject to change as we make our way through the course. I recommend that, as you get started, look at the software libraries and tutorials page to get your Matlab environment set up.

The dates for assignments are tentative; they will be finalized during in the term.

Date	Topic / Lecture Notes	Readings / Demos	Course Work
Week 1, Sept 12, 2011	Lectures: Introduction to Computer Vision Radiometry and Reflectance Tutorial: no tutorial this week	Readings: Notes on Phong reflectance, Fleet and Hertzmann (ignore OpenGL) Notes on radiometry and reflectance, Fleet and Hertzmann Demos: Phong shading demo Ted Adelson's illusion site (see the step illusion) Video of checker illusion
Week 2, Sept 19, 2011	Lectures: Image Formation Filters and Fourier Transforms Tutorial: Intro to Matlab, Radiometry and Reflectance. Notes	Readings: Notes on camera models, Fleet and Hertzmann Notes on Fourier analysis, Fleet and Jepson Part I of Forsyth & Ponce (Image Formation and Image Models) Demos: colourTutorial.m (UTVis) linSysTutorial.m, imageTutorial.m, samplingTutorial.m (ISE)	Assignments: A1 Handout (starter zipfile)
Week 3, Sept 26, 2011	Lectures: Fourier Transforms and Sampling (cont from week 2) Image Pyramids Tutorial: Homographies	Readings: Forsyth & Ponce: Ch. 7,8,9.1-9.2 Demos: imageTutorial.m, pyramidTutorial.m (in ISE) Sampling demo: upSample.zip
Week 4, Oct 3, 2011	Lectures: Edge Detection Linear Subspace Models Tutorial: Sampling details and demos	Readings: Forsyth & Ponce, Ch. 8 Forsyth & Ponce, Ch. 22.1-22.3 Demos: trainEigenEyes.m and detectEigenEyes.m in utvisToolbox/tutorials/eigenTut/ cannyTutorial.m (utvis)
Week 5, Oct 10, 2011	Lectures: Robust Estimation Tutorial: No tutorial due to Thanksgiving	Readings: Forsyth and Ponce, Ch. 15. Demos: robustLineScript.m, robustDemo.m, oTensorDemo.m, and houghDemo.m in utvisToolbox/tutorials/lineTut/ To run them, add to your path '/utvisToolbox/edge', '/utvisToolbox/tutorials/lineTut', '/utvisToolbox/tutorials/lineTut/localUtil'	Assignments: A1 due Oct 13, 1pm A2 Handout (old starter zipfile) (new starter zipfile)
Week 6, Oct 17, 2011	Lectures: Optical Flow Mixture Models Tutorial: least squares, robust estimation and efficiency.	Readings: Optical Flow book chapter Demos: intromotionTutorial.m, motionTut.m (utvis)
Week 7, Oct 24, 2011	Lectures: Tracking Tracking Demo Slides Tutorial: flow/motion tutorial assignment questions	Readings: Chapter on Tracking by Blake (2005) Demos: introMotionTut.m, motionTutorial.m in tutorials/motionTut (utvis)
Week 8, Oct 31, 2011	Lectures: Local Features Epipolar Geometry Tutorial: particle filtering	Readings: SIFT paper by Lowe (2004) HOG paper by Dalal and Triggs (2005) Demos: SIFTtutorial/tutorial.m (utvis) 3dRecon/grappleFmatrix.m (utvis)	Assignments: A2 due Oct 31. A3 Handout pigeonTrack.zip pigeon.zip
Week 9, Nov 7, 2011	Lectures: Multiview Factorization Tutorial: CANCELLED (study week)	Readings: Demos: see 3dRecon/README.* (utvis)
Week 10, Nov 14, 2011	Lectures: Recognition Notes Recognition Slides I Recognition Slides II Tutorial: SFM, Factorization	Readings: Dickinson, S., The Evolution of Object Categorization and the Challenge of Image Abstraction Mundy, J., Object Recognition in the Geometric Era: A Retrospective Demos: TBD	Assignments: A3 due Nov 18. A4 Handout Starter code/data
Week 11, Nov 21, 2011	Lectures: Segmentation Tutorial: Boosting, Rejection Cascades, Decision Stumps	Readings: TBD Demos: TBD
Week 12, Nov 28, 2011	Lectures: Markov Random Fields Tutorial: TBD - Q&A for A4.	Readings: Y Boykov and O Veksler (2005) Chapter on graph cuts. S Prince (2011) Chapter on Undirected models for images. Demos: TBD
EXAM	Thursday December 8, 2011 Room: SS2105, 2-5PM.