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CSE 391/591: COMPUTATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER VISION

Course Description -- Fall 2008

CLASS INFORMATION:

Lectures: Tue/Thu 2:20 - 3:40pm
Location: Computer Science Bldg. room 2129

       Instructor: Prof. M. Alex O. Vasilescu
      Office Hours: Thu 4-5pm                       

Course Description: The plethora of images on the internet, the ubiquitous access to digital cameras and personal computers have spurred an interest in computational imaging techniques that organize images and enhance or extend the capabilities of digital cameras. Computational photography refers to analysis, manipulation and synthesis of images using numerical algorithms. It combines methodologies from image processing, computer vision, computer graphics and photography.

Prerequisites: Linear Algebra, Probability, or consent of the instructor.

Grading:

 

 

 

Option A

Option B

 

Problem Sets (~6) with lab exercises in Matlab.

Problem sets may be discussed, but all written work and coding must be done individually. 

 

30%

50%

 

Exams: One take-home exams.

             (Take-home exam may not be discussed.)

 

30%

0%

 

Final Project:

 

  • An original implementation of a new or published idea
  • A detailed empirical evaluation of an existing implementation of one or more methods

 

Project proposal not longer than two pages must be submitted and approved before the end of October.

 

30%

40%

 

Class Participation:

 

10%

10%

 

Reference Textbooks:

  • Computer Vision: A Modern Approach, by David Forsyth and Jean Ponce., Prentice Hall, 2003.

  • Robot Vision, by Berthold Horn, MIT Press 1986.

  • Photography (9th edition), London and Upton,

  • Vision Science: Photons to Phenomenology, Stephen Palmer

  • Digital Image Processing, 2nd edition, Gonzalez and Woods

  • Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision, Hartley & Zisserman

  • The Computer Image, Watt and Policarpo

  • Linear Algebra and its Applications, Gilbert Strang

 

Internet Resources:

Matlab:

         University of Colorado Matlab Tutorials

o        A decent collection of Matlab tutorials, including one focusing on image processing.

 Computer Vision:

  • Computer Vision Homepage,

  • Face Recognition Homepage,

  • Face Detection Homepage

  • Similar Courses at other Universities: :

  • Computational Photography (Efros, CMU)
  • Computational Camera and Photography (Raskar, MIT Media Lab)
  • Digital and Computational Photography (Durand & Freeman, MIT)
  • Computational Photography (Essa, Georgia Tech)
  • Computational Photography (Levoy, Adams, Pulli, Stanford)
  • Computational Photography (Lazebnik, UNC)
  • Computational Photography (Fergus, NYU)
  • Internet Vision (T.Berg, SUNY)
  • Computer Vision (Seitz & Szeliski, UWashington)
  • Introduction to Visual Computing and Visual Modeling (Kutulakos, UToronto)
  • Symposium on Computational Photography and Video (May 2005, MIT)

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