CAP5415 - Computer Vision

FALL 2011
TUESDAY/THURSDAY 12:00 - 13:15
ENGR 383

Instructor

Prof. Mubarak Shah
Office: HEC-247
Phone: 407-823-5077
Office Hours: Tue 13:15-14:00 Thu 11:00-12:00
Email: shah at eecs.ucf.edu

Berkan Solmaz
HEC-254 (Computer Vision Lab)
Phone (Vision Lab): 407-823-4733
Office Hours: Mon 16:00-17:00 Wed 12:00-13:00
Email: berkansolmaz at yahoo.com

Course Goals

The course is introductory level. It will cover the basic topics of computer vision, and introduce some fundamental approaches for computer vision research.

 *  Image Filtering, Edge Detection, Interest Point Detectors
 *  Motion and Optical Flow
 *  Region Segmentation
 *  Object Detection and tracking
 *  Line and Curve Detection
 *  Shape Analysis
 *  Stereopsis
 *  Imaging Geometry, Camera Modeling and Calibration

Grading Policy

Homework: 10%
Programming Assignments: 40%
Mid-Term Exam: 20%
Final Exam: 30%

Grading

90 - 100 = A;
80 -  89 = B;
70 -  79 = C; 

Programming

- Programming will be in MATLAB.
- You are not supposed to use MATLAB code from the web, written by someone else.
- Everything has to be written by yourself except the standard Matlab functions.
- There will be a tutorial on MATLAB on Thursday, August 25 in the class.

Prerequisites

The University Golden Rules will be observed in this class. Copying or Plagiarism is violation of the Golden Rules.

Reference Text

Lectures

• Lecture 1 (08/23/2011)
• Introduction and Course Overview. (pdf file)
• Images, Noise, Derivative, Convolution etc. (pdf file)
  
• Lecture 2 (08/25/2011)
• Matlab Tutorial. (zip file)
• Lecture 3 (08/30/2011)
• Images, Noise, Derivative, Convolution etc. (continued) (pdf file)
• Edge Detection (pdf file)
• Lecture 4 (08/31/2011)
• Interest Point Detection, Harris Corner Detector (pdf file)
• Lecture 5 (09/06/2011)
• SIFT (pdf file)
• Lecture 6 (09/13/2011)
• Optical Flow (pdf file)
• Lecture 7 (09/15/2011)
• Pyramids (pdf file)
• Lecture 8 (09/22/2011)
• Motion Models (pdf file)
• Lecture 9 (09/29/2011)
• Global Motion (pdf file)
• Lecture 10 (10/04/2011)
• Camera Model and Calibration (pdf file)
• Lecture 11 (10/06/2011)
• Midterm Review (pdf file)
• Lecture 12 (10/18/2011)
• Fundamental Matrix (pdf file)
• Lecture 13 (10/25/2011)
• Stereo (pdf file)
• Lecture 14 (10/27/2011)
• Structure from Motion (pdf file)
• Lecture 15 (11/01/2011)
• Face Recognition (pdf file)
• Linear Discriminant Analysis (pdf file)
• Lecture 16 (11/04/2011)
• Detection&Tracking (pdf file)
• Lecture 17 (11/15/2011)
• HoughTransform (pdf file)
• Lecture 18 (11/17/2011)
• Region Segmentation (pdf file)

Assignments

• Programming Assignments
• Assignment 1 (due 09/13/2011)  (zip file) 
• Assignment 2 (due 09/22/2011)  (pdf file) 

• Homework Assignments 
• Assignment 1 (due 09/15/2011)  (pdf file) 

Sample Images

• Data for Programming Assignment 3 (zip file) 
• Data for Programming Assignment 3 (zip file) 
• Data for Programming Assignment 4 (zip file)

Source Code

Leading Journals and Conferences in Computer Vision

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