Course Schedule (Updated Frequently)

Date Instructor Topic Readings Projects Homework
Tue, Jan 4 Thrun Introduction and Image formation      
Thu, Jan 6 Thrun Camera Calibration (slides preliminary) Trucco and Verri Chapters 1 and 2, and 6    
Mon, Jan 10, 6pm, Gates B03 (note different time) Adrian Kaehler and David Stavens Introduction into Open CV optical flow demo program

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Tue, Jan 11 Thrun Features I: Image Processing, Filters, edges, corners, Hough transform Trucco and Verri Chapter 3 and 4    
Thu, Jan 13 Thrun Features II: Fourier, Phase, Pyramids, SIFT features Trucco and Verri Chapter 5.1-5.3 and paper on SIFT features   Assignment 1 in postscript and PDF
Tue, Jan 18 Thrun Stereopsis I: Geometry, Feature-based correspondence, and dense stereo Trucco and Verri Chapter 7    
Thu, Jan 20 Thrun Stereopsis II: Correspondence, layered stereo, smoothing, active illumination paper by D. Scharstein and R. Szeliski   Stereo assignment due
Tue, Jan 25 Szeliski and Thrun Inspirational session on possible projects      
Wed, Jan 26       Deadline for self-defined project  
Thu, Jan 27 Szeliski Parametric motion estimation, image stichting and mosaicking T&V chap 8, Szeliski and Shum, Szeliski tutorial    
Mon, Jan 31       Deadline for project selection  
Tue, Feb 1 Szeliski Optical flow, layered flow Trucco and Verri Chapter 8    
Thu, Feb 3 Szeliski Structure from Motion (Ransac, bundle adjustment, correspondence) Forsyth and Ponce, Chapters 12 and 13   Stitching assignment due
Tue, Feb 8 Thrun MIDTERM EXAM      
Thu, Feb 10 Thrun Midterm Discussion, Structure from Motion II      
Mon, Feb 14       Deadline for Interim Project Report  
Tue, Feb 15 Thrun Tracking: Kalman filter and condensation      
Thu, Feb 17 Thrun Large Scale Environment Mapping (SLAM) Trucco and Verri Chapter 5.4-5.8    
Tue, Feb 22 Thrun Segmentation and Grouping, snakes, and active contours Trucco and Verri Chapter 10    
Thu, Feb 24 Thrun Snakes and active contours
See also Final Project Presentations and Project Report
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Tue, Mar 1 Thrun Object recognition, Eigenfaces, recognition in context      
Thu, Mar 3 Drago Anguelov 3D Modeling, Range images, ICP, deformable templates      
Tue, Mar 8 Thrun STUDENT PROJECT PRESENTATION I      
Thu, Mar 10 Thrun STUDENT PROJECT PRESENTATION II      
Tue, Mar 15       Deadline for the one-and-only Final Project Report  

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