Computer Vision

 

CS 678

 

Spring 2018, WVU

 

Instructor: Guodong Guo

Office: AER-345

Phone: 304  293  9143

email: Guodong -DOT- Guo  -AT-  mail -DOT- wvu -DOT- edu

Syllabus is here

 

Lecture Hours: 5pm - 7:30pm (W)

Classroom: AER-E 215

Office Hours: 3:00pm - 4:00pm (TH) or by appointment

 

 

Textbook

        Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications, Richard Szeliski, http://szeliski.org/Book/

 

 

Other Useful books       

 

        Introductory Techniques for 3-D Computer Vision, E. Trucco and A. Verri, Prentice Hall, 1998. ISBN 0-13-261108-2

         

        Computer Vision: A Modern Approach by D. A. Forsyth and J. Ponce, Prentice Hall, 2003. ISBN-10: 0-13-085198-1

        

Announcement:

          Will be put here.

         

 

Calendar:

Dates

Topics

Readings

Assignments

Jan 10

General introduction to computer vision

and recent advances [PPT]

 

  • Szeliski, Ch 1.0

 

HW0 (warm up): Install OpenCV, read and write images, and try some simple functions, such as reading and saving images. No need to turn in.

Jan 17

 

Human vision and cameras [PPT]

 

  • Szeliski, Ch 2
  • F&P, Ch 1&6

 

 

Jan 24

 

 

Filtering [PPT]

 

  • Szeliski, 3.1-3.2
  • F&P, Ch 7
  • Szeliski, 3.5
  • F&P, Ch 9.2

 

 

Jan 31

Edge detection [PPT]

 

  • Szeliski, Ch 4.2
 
HW1 assigned

Due Feb. 28, 2018

Feb. 7

Feature Extraction [PPT]

  

 

 

 

Fitting [PPT]

  • Szeliski, Ch 4.1
  • optional: K. Mikolajczyk, C. Schmid,  A performance evaluation of local descriptors. In PAMI 27(10):1615-1630
 
  • Szeliski, 6.1
  • F&P, 3.1 & 15

 

 
Feb. 21 Hough Transform [PPT]
  • F&P, 3.1 & 15
 

Feb. 28

 

 

 

Image Stitching [PPT]

 

 

 

      Szeliski, 9

 
Feb. 28

 

 

Optical Flow [PPT]

 

 

  • Szeliski, 9
  • F&P, 17, 25.4
  • T&V, 8 

 

 

March 7

Image Segmentation     

[PPT] 

 

 

Face Verification and Search

[PPT1] [PPT2]

 

 

 

N. Kumar et al., "FaceTracer: A Search Engine for Large Collections of Images with Faces," ECCV 2008;

N. Kumar et al., "Attributes and Similes for Face Verification," ICCV 2009

Link: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~neeraj/

 
HW2 assigned

Due March 21, 2018 

 

 

March 14

Spring Break    
 

March 21

 

Object Recognition [PPT]

 

 22.1, 22.2, & 22.5 (F&P)

   14 (Szeliski) 

 
HW3 assigned

Due April 4, 2018   

     

 

     

 

April 5

Bag of Features

[PPT] 

 

Using Spatial Information[PPT] 

 

   
April 12

Single View Modeling [PPT

Epipolar Geometry [PPT] 

 

 

April 19

 

Stereo [PPT] 

 

Final project initiative presentation

 

 

 
April 26

Intro to RGB-D sensor

[PDF]

 

Brief Review of the course 

[PDF]

 

 

 

  Exam  

 

 

 

   
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       

 

 

Others:

OpenCV can be download here.

Useful materials to Computer Vision study are here

CV papers web containing on-line papers and some code and datasets