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MIT CSAIL6.869: Advances in Computer Vision |
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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 |
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| 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) |
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| 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 |
Color | Bill | Lecture notes Slides [Sz] 2.2, 2.3.2 [FP] 6 |
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| 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) |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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) | ||||