MIT CSAIL

6.819/6.869: Advances in Computer Vision

Fall 2017

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This schedule is preliminary and subject to change as the term evolves.

Lecture Date Topic Instructor Course Materials Assignments
Week 1
1 Thu 9/7/2017 Intro and a simple vision system Antonio admin_slides admin_pdf
slides pdf
class_notes
pset 1 out
code
Week 2
2 Tue 9/12/2017 Filters I Bill slides pdf
class_notes
Wed 9/13/2017 MATLAB Tutorial (11am 32-D507) Zhoutong code
3 Thu 9/14/2017 Filters II Bill slides pdf
pset 1 due
pset 2 out
code
Thu 9/14/2017 MATLAB Tutorial (3pm, 32-D507) Jiajun code
Week 3
4 Tue 9/19/2017 Motion filters. Spatial pyramids Bill slides pdf
paper
5 Thu 9/21/2017 Color and constancy Bill pdf
class_notes
pset 2 due
pset 3 out
code
Week 4
6 Tue 9/26/2017 Learned feedforward visual processing Antonio slides pdf
7 Thu 9/28/2017 Learned feedforward visual processing Antonio slides pdf
pset 3 due
pset 4 out
files
Fri 9/29/2017 MiniPlaces Challenge out (in teams of 2; worth 2 psets; due 11/21)
Week 5
8 Tue 10/3/2017 Learned feedforward visual processing Antonio slides pdf
Tue 10/3/2017 TensorFlow Tutorial (5pm, 3-270) Hunter code
9 Thu 10/5/2017 Image statistics I Bill slides pdf
pset 4 due
Thu 10/5/2017 TensorFlow Tutorial (2pm, 3-270) Jimmy code
Thu 10/5/2017 PyTorch Tutorial (4pm, 4-370) Xiuming 60-Minute Blitz
Thu 10/5/2017 PyTorch Tutorial (6pm, 4-270) Daniel 60-Minute Blitz
Week 6
10 Thu 10/12/2017 Image statistics II Bill pdf
reading material
pset 5 out
data
Week 7
11 Tue 10/17/2017 Image formation, cameras, lenses and calibration Bill pdf
12 Thu 10/19/2017 Homogeneous coordinates. Stereo. Multiview geometry Bill pdf pset 5 due
pset 6 out
Week 8
13 Tue 10/24/2017 Image features Tali Dekel (Google) pdf
14 Thu 10/26/2017 Homographies, RANSAC and panoramas Tali Dekel (Google) pdf
Week 9
15 Tue 10/31/2017 Edges and segmentation Antonio pdf slides
16 Thu 11/2/2017 Textures Antonio pdf slides pset 6 due
pset 7 out
code
Week 10
17 Tue 11/7/2017 Graphical models and belief propagation I Bill class_notes (no slides; will use chalkboard)
18 Thu 11/9/2017 Graphical models and belief propagation II Bill pdf pset 8 out
code
Fri 11/10/2017 pset 7 due
Week 11
19 Tue 11/14/2017 Introduction to High-Level Vision Antonio slides pdf
20 Thu 11/16/2017 Object recognition Antonio
Fri 11/17/2017 pset 8 due
Week 12
21 Tue 11/21/2017 Object recognition Antonio slides pdf MiniPlaces Challenge due
Week 13
22 Tue 11/28/2017 Object recognition Antonio slides pdf
23 Thu 11/30/2017 Action recognition Bolei Zhou (MIT) slides pdf
Week 14
24 Tue 12/5/2017 Motion Estimation 1 Ce Liu (Google) slides pdf
25 Thu 12/7/2017 Motion Estimation 2 Ce Liu (Google)
Thu 12/7/2017
1-4pm
37-212
Student presentation slot 1
Fri 12/8/2017
10am-1pm
2-131
Student presentation slot 2
Week 15
Mon 12/11/2017
2-5pm
4-370
Student presentation slot 3
Tue 12/12/2017
9:30-11am
34-101
Student presentation slot (backup)
Tue 12/12/2017
1-4pm
3-133
Student presentation slot 4