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

Syllabus -- Fall 2008

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Date

Lecture Slides

Readings

Assignments

1

9/2

Course Introduction (slides)

 

 

2

9/4

Matlab Tutorial

Matlab Primer

 

3

9/9

Face Detection: PCA (Eigenfaces) (slides)

  • Turk, M. & Pentland, A. (1991). "Eigenfaces for recognition" Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 3, 71-86.
     
  • FP pgs. 505-512
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    4

    9/11

    PCA - matlab code

     

     

    5

    9/16

    Skin Detection (slides)

  • FP pgs. 502-505

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  • Michael J. Jones, James Rehg, "Statistical color models with application to skin detection", International Journal of Computer Vision, 1999
     

  • "A Survey on Pixel-Based Skin Color Detection Techniques" Vladimir Vezhnevets, Vassili Sazonov, Alla Andreeva
  • PS #1 - Assigned

    6

    9/18

    Skin Detection - matlab demonstration

     

     

    7

      9/23

    Problem Set #1 - discussion

     

     

    8

    9/25

    Image Morphing

  • Heckbert, P., Fundamentals of Texture Mapping and Image Warping, Masters Thesis, Dept. EECS UC Berkeley, June 1989.
  • PS #1 - Due 

    9

    9/30

    -- University Holiday --

     

     

    10

    10/2

    Global/Local Warps

     

    PS #2 - Assigned
     

    11

    10/7

    Image Formation

    F&P ch.1

     

    12

    10/9

    -- University Holiday --

     

     

    13

    10/14

    Mosaics and Panoramas

  • Paul Heckbert, Projecting Mappings for Image Warping

  • Rick Szeliski, "Image Alignment and Stitching, A Tutorial (DRAFT)"
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    14

    10/16

    Problem Set 2 - Discusion

     

    PS #2 - Due

    15

     10/21

     Work on Project Proposals --

     

     

    16

     10/23

    Image Blending, Image Pyramids

  • Burt and Adelson, "A Multiresolution Spline With Application to Image Mosaics," in ACM Trans. on Graphics, pp.2(4):217--236, October, 1983.

  • Burt and Adelson "The Laplacian Pyramid as a Compact Image Code",1983
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    17

    10/28

    Work on Project Proposals

     

     

    18

    10/30

    Local Features - Alex Berg (Guest Lecturer)

  • C.Harris and M.Stephens. "A Combined Corner and Edge Detector." Proceedings of the 4th Alvey Vision Conference: pages 147--151.;

  • D.Lowe. “Distinctive Image Features from Scale-Invariant Keypoints”. Accepted to IJCV 2004 Scene Collages and Flexible Camera Arrays

  • Brown, etal Multi-Image Matching using Multi-Scale Oriented Patches
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    19

    11/4

    Project Proposal Show and Tell

     

     

    20

    11/6

    Multi-Perspective Panoramas and Automated Joiners

  • L. Zelnik-Manor, G. Peters, P. Perona, Squaring the Circle in Panoramas, ICCV'05

  • Lihi Zelnik-Manor and Pietro Perona, Automating joiners, NPAR 2007.

  • Aseem Agarwala, Maneesh Agrawala, Michael Cohen, David Salesin1, Rick Szeliski "Photographing long scenes with multi-viewpoint panoramas." ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2006), 2006.

  • Additional Reading: Scene Collages and Flexible Camera Arrays

  • http://flickr.com/groups/joiners/
  • 21

    11/11

    Single View Reconstruction

  • Criminisi, I. Reid and A. Zisserman, “Single View Metrology” (ICCV 99)
  • Zisser And Mundy, appendix
  • “Tour into the Picture” (SIGGRAPH ’97)
  •  PS #3 - Assigned

    22

     11/13

    Multi View  Reconstruction

     

     

    23

    11/18

    Modeling Light: Plenoptic Function & Lumigraph

  • McMillan, Bishop "Plenoptic modeling: an image-based rendering system" Siggraph 1995.
  • SJ Gortler, R Grzeszczuk, R Szeliski, MF Cohen, "The Lumigraph" Siggraph 1996
  • Levoy and Hanrahan  "Light Field Rendering" Siggraph 1996
  • Ng, Levoy, Brédif, Duval, Horowitz and Hanrahan, "Light field photography using a handheld plenoptic camera" Siggraph 2005
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    24

    11/20

    TensorTextures

  • Vasilescu and Terzopoulos, "TensorTextures: Multilinear Image-Based Rendering" Siggraph 2004
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    25

    11/25

    Problem Set 3 - Discussion

     

    PS #3 - Due

    26

    11/27

     Thanksgiving

     

    27

    12/2

    Independent Work - Final Project

     

     

    28

    12/4

    Physically Based Modelling:
    Image Processing, Surface Reconstruction, Liquid Modeling, Cloth Modeling

  • Terzopoulos and Vasilescu, "Sampling and Reconstruction with Adaptive Meshes"Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR’91),
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    28

    12/9

    Independent Work - Final Project

     

     

    28

    12/11

    Final Project - Show and Tell

     

     

    28

    12/15

    Final Project - Show and Tell

     

     

     

    Possible Projects:
    1. Burt and Adelson, "A Multiresolution Spline With Application to Image Mosaics," in ACM Trans. on Graphics, pp.2(4):217--236, October, 1983.
    2. Seitz and Dyer, "View morphing," in Proc. SIGGRAPH 96, pp. 21--30.
    3. Blantz V, Vetter T. "A morphable model for the synthesis. of 3D faces." In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH’99, 1999; pp. 187–194.

    4.