MIT CSAIL

6.869: Advances in Computer Vision

Spring 2011

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

 

Lecture Date Topic Lecturer Material/Readings Assignments
Week 1
1 Wed Feb 2 Simple linear vision system Antonio Lecture notes
Slides
Papert (1966)
ps1 out
R1 Fri Feb 4 Matlab Tutorial Michael Tutorial code  
Week 2
2 Mon Feb 7 Linear Filters Bill Lecture notes
Slides
[Sz] 3.2, 3.3
 
3 Wed Feb 9 Pyramids and scale space Bill Lecture notes
Slides
[Sz] 3.4, 3.5
Burt & Adelson (1983)
Freeman & Adelson (1991)
ps1 in
ps2 out
Week 3
4 Mon Feb 14 Image statistics I Antonio Lecture notes
Slides
Barrow & Tenenbaum (1978)
Simoncelli (2005)
 
5 Wed Feb 16 Image statistics II Antonio Slides
Fergus (2006)
ps1 solutions
ps2 in
ps3 out
Week 4
  Mon Feb 21 NO CLASS (Presidents Day)      
6

Tue Feb 22
Monday schedule

Color Bill Lecture notes
Slides
[Sz] 2.2, 2.3.2
[FP] 6
 
7 Wed Feb 23 Inference Bill Lecture notes
[KF] 4, 9
[Sz] 3.7
ps2 solutions
ps3 in
ps4 out
Week 5
8 Mon Feb 28 Texture Antonio Lecture notes
Slides
Julesz (1981)
Heeger & Bergen (1995)
Portilla & Simoncelli (1998)
Efros & Leung (1999)
 
9 Wed Mar 2 Edges and Segmentation Antonio Slides ps3 solutions
ps4 in
ps5 out
Week 6
10 Mon Mar 7 Markov Random Fields Bill Lecture notes
Slides
 
11 Wed Mar 9 Image formation models Bill Lecture notes
Slides
ps4 solutions
ps5 in
ps6 out
Week 7
12 Mon Mar 14 Calibration and stereo Bill Lecture notes
Slides
[Sz] 11
 
13 Wed Mar 16 Shape-from-X Antonio Slides
Single view metrology
Automatic Photo Pop-up
ps5 solutions
ps6 in
ps7 out
Week 8
  Mon Mar 21 NO CLASS (spring break)      
  Wed Mar 23 NO CLASS (spring break)      
Week 9
14 Mon Mar 28 Image features Bill Lecture notes
Slides
[Sz] 4
 
15 Wed Mar 30 Homographies and RANSAC Bill Lecture nodes
Slides
[Sz] 6.1
ps6 solutions
ps7 in
ps8 out
Week 10
16 Mon Apr 4 Motion: continuous Guest lecturer:
Ce Liu
Slides
[Sz] 8
project proposals due (stellar)
17 Wed Apr 6 Motion: discrete Ce Liu Slides ps7 solutions
ps8 in
ps9 out
Week 11
18 Mon Apr 11 Tracking Bill Lecture notes
Slides
 
19 Wed Apr 13 Structure from motion Antonio Slides ps9 in
ps10 out
Week 12
  Mon Apr 18 NO CLASS (Patriot's day)      
20 Wed Apr 20 Object recognition I Antonio Lecture notes
Slides
[Sz] 14.1,14.2
ps9 solutions
Week 13
21 Mon Apr 25 Object recognition II Antonio Slides  
22 Wed Apr 27 Object recognition III Antonio Slides ps10 in
ps11 out
Week 14
23 Mon May 2 Writing papers and giving talks Bill Lecture notes
Slides
 
24 Wed May 4 Internet vision Bill Lecture notes
Slides
ps10 solutions
ps11 in
ps12 out (short)
Week 15
25 Mon May 9 Scene understanding Antonio Slides ps11 solutions
ps12 in
26 Wed May 11 Final project presentations      
  Fri May 13       project reports due (stellar)