MIT CSAIL 6.8300/6.8301: Advances in Computer Vision
Spring 2023
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This schedule is preliminary and subject to change as the term evolves.

You can find the Course notes under Files on Canvas.

Lecture	Date	Topic	Instructor	Course Materials	Assignments
Week 1
1	Tue 02/07/2023	Introduction, Simple Vision System	Antonio	slides (.pdf) slides (.key) admin slides (.pdf) admin slides (.key) lecture recording (2022) Course notes: Chapter 2
2	Thu 02/09/2023	Describing the Signal: Pinhole, Computational, and Corner Cameras	Bill	slides (.pdf) slides (.pptx) slides (.key) lecture recording (2022) Course notes: Chapters 5, 6 & 7
Week 2
3	Tue 02/14/2023	Signal Processing	Bill	slides (.pdf) slides (.pptx) slides (.key) lecture recording Course notes: Chapters 14 & 15	pset1 out
Tutorial	Tue 02/14/2023	Python Tutorial Session 1 When: 04:00 pm - 06:00 pm Where: 34-101 and on Zoom	Camilo, Ola	See Session 2.
4	Thu 02/16/2023	Spatial Linear Filters, Temporal Linear Filters	Bill	slides (.pdf) slides (.pptx) slides (.key) lecture recording Course notes: Chapters 16, 17 & 18
Tutorial	Thu 02/16/2023	Python Tutorial Session 2 When: 02:45 pm - 04:00 pm Where: 1-190 and on Zoom	Camilo, Ola	material tutorial recording
Week 3
	Tue 02/21/2023	Monday Schedule: No Class
5	Thu 02/23/2023	Multi-Scale Pyramids	Antonio	slides (.pdf) slides (.pptx) slides (.key) lecture recording Course notes: Chapters 20 & 22	pset1 due pset2 out
Week 4
6	Tue 02/28/2023	Introduction to Machine Learning	Mina	slides (.pdf) slides (.pptx) slides (.key) lecture recording Course notes: Chapter 9
Tutorial	Tue 02/28/2023	PyTorch Tutorial Session 1 When: 04:00 pm - 05:00 pm Where: 34-101 and on Zoom	Sai, Victor	material tutorial recording
7	Thu 03/02/2023	Neural Networks	Mina	slides (.pdf) slides (.pptx) slides (.key) lecture recording Course notes: Chapter 12	pset2 due pset3 out
Tutorial	Thu 03/02/2023	PyTorch Tutorial Session 2 When: 10:00 am - 11:00 am Where: 34-101 and on Zoom	Sai, Victor	material tutorial recording
Week 5
8	Tue 03/07/2023	Stochastic Gradient Descent, Back Propagation	Antonio	slides (.pdf) slides (.pptx) slides (.key) lecture recording Course notes: Chapters 10 & 13
9	Thu 03/09/2023	Spatial NNs, CNNs, Visualization of Weights	Mina	slides (.pdf) slides (.pptx) slides (.key) lecture recording Course notes: Chapter 23
Week 6
10	Tue 03/14/2023	Mechanisms of Training and Running Networks	Mina	slides (.pdf) slides (.pptx) slides (.key) lecture recording Course notes: No Reading	pset3 due pset4 out
11	Thu 03/16/2023	Temporal NNs, RNNs, LSTMs, Attention, Transformers	Vincent	slides (.pdf) slides (.pptx) slides (.key) lecture recording Course notes: Chapters 24 & 25
Week 7
12	Tue 03/21/2023	2D Representation Learning	Vincent	slides (.pdf) slides (.pptx) slides (.key) lecture recording Course notes: Chapter 29	pset4 due pset5 out
13	Thu 03/23/2023	2D Scene Understanding: Image Segmentation, Objection Recognition, and more	Antonio	slides (.pdf) slides (.pptx) slides (.key) lecture recording Course notes: Chapters 44 & 45
Week 8
	Tue 03/28/2023	Spring Break: No Class
	Thu 03/30/2023	Spring Break: No Class
Week 9
14	Tue 04/04/2023	Image Synthesis: Structured Prediction, Generative Models, GANs, Autoregressive Models	Mina	slides (.pdf) slides (.pptx) slides (.key) lecture recording Course notes: Chapters 28 & 30
15	Thu 04/06/2023	Projective Geometry	Vincent	slides (.pdf) slides (.pptx) slides (.key) lecture recording Course notes: Chapter 35	project proposal due See guidelines pset5 due pset6 out
Week 10
16	Tue 04/11/2023	Geometry, Stereo, Intrinsic-Extrinsic Camera Parameters	Vincent	slides (.pdf) slides (.pptx) slides (.key) lecture recording Course notes: Chapters 36 & 38
17	Thu 04/13/2023	3D Scene Representations, Differentiable Rendering	Vincent	slides (.pdf) slides (.pptx) slides (.key) lecture recording Course notes: Chapter 31
Week 11
18	Tue 04/18/2023	Motion Estimation, Optical Flow	Deqing Sun	slides (.pdf) slides (.pptx) lecture recording Course notes: Chapters 40, 41, 42 & 43	pset7-part1 out
19	Thu 04/20/2023	Statistical Models for Images, Texture	Bill	slides (.pdf) slides (.pptx) slides (.key) lecture recording Course notes: Chapters 26 & 27	pset6 due
Week 12
20	Tue 04/25/2023	EHT and Image Priors	Bill	slides (.pdf) slides (.pptx) slides (.key) lecture recording Course notes: No Reading	pset7-part2 out
21	Thu 04/27/2023	Cross-Modal Environmental Monitoring with Computer Vision	Sara Beery	lecture recording Course notes: Chapter 4	pset7-part1 due
Week 13
22	Tue 05/02/2023	How To Do Research, How To Write Papers, How To Give Talks	Bill, Vincent	slides (.pdf) (Bill) slides (.pptx) (Bill) slides (.key) (Bill) slides (.pdf) (Vincent) slides (.pptx) (Vincent) slides (.key) (Vincent) lecture recording Course notes: Chapters 46, 47 & 48	pset7-part2 due
23	Thu 05/04/2023	Datasets, Curation, Biases, Domain Adapation	Mina	slides (.pdf) slides (.pptx) slides (.key) lecture recording Course notes: Chapters 32, 33 & 34
Week 14
24	Tue 05/09/2023	Can Computers Create Art?	Aaron Hertzmann	Zoom recording can be found on Canvas under Files -> Uploaded Media Course notes: No Reading
	Thu 05/11/2023	Final Project Presentations
Week 15
	Tue 05/16/2023	Final Project Presentations			project report due