CMSC 426
Image Processing (Computer Vision)
David Jacobs
Spring 2003

 

 

   Announcement                                                                         
- (April 24th) Problem set 5 is posted. The due date is Thursday May 8th.

- (April 15th) Here is the link of the paper "A Maximum Likelihood Stereo Algorithm" (pdf)  CVIU.

- (April 3rd) Problem set 4 is revised. Please download the updated version.

- (March 31st) Problem set 4 is posted. The due date is Thursday April 17th.

- (March 31st) Dr. Jacobs' comments on Problem set 3 

 

General Information
 

Class Time  

Tue, Thu 11:00-12:15

Room

CSI 2107

Course Info

Syllabus 

Text

Computer Vision A Modern Approach, David Forsyth and Jean Ponce., Prentice Hall, 2003.

Personnel
 

Instructor

Teaching Assistant

Name

David Jacobs

Hyoungjune Yi

Email

djacobs@cs.umd.edu

aster@cs.umd.edu

Office

AVW 4421

AVW TA room

Office hours

Mon 3:00-4:00, Thur 3:30-4:30

Mon 4:00-6:00

If you cannot make these office hours, please send email to arrange another time.

 

  Problem Set

    Problem Set 1 (pdf) : Due on Feb. 18th. => Feb. 20th.    Sample solution (pdf)
    Problem Set 2 (pdf) : Due on Mar. 4th. 11:00 a.m. Student's solutions (Haibin Ling's) (Lorin Hochstein's)
    Problem Set 3 (pdf) : Due on Thursday April 3  Sample solution
    Problem Set 4 (pdf) : Due on Thursday April 17 (Images needed for PS4 1 2 3 4 5 6) Sample solution (pdf)
                          Here is the link of the paper "A Maximum Likelihood Stereo Algorithm" (pdf) 
     Problem Set 5 (pdf) : Due on Thursday May 8 (Images needed for PS5 1 2 , MatFile  1) Sample solution (pdf)

 

  Class Slides    Class  1  (ppt)  (pdf) :      Introduction (Jan. 28th)
   Class  2  (ppt)  (pdf) :      Image Formation (Jan. 30th)
   Class  3  (ppt)  (pdf) :      Matlab Tutorial  and Linear Algebra Review (Feb. 4th) 
                                           ( Tutorial m-file , very simple matlab program )
   Class  4  (ppt)  (pdf) :      Filtering (Feb. 6th) 
                                           ( Filtering-Tutorial m-file)
   Class  5  (ppt)  (pdf) :      Edge Detection -1 (Feb. 11th) 
                                           ( Edge Detection 1 -Tutorial m-file)
   Class  6  (ppt)  (pdf) :      Edge Detection -2 (Feb. 13th) 
                                           ( Edge Detection 2 -Tutorial m-file)
   Class  7            (pdf) :      "Camera Design" , Guest Lecture : Jan Neumann from CfAR (Feb. 20th) 
   Class  8  (ppt)  (pdf) :      Texture (Feb. 25th) 
                                           ( Texture -Tutorial m-file)
   Class  9  (ppt)  (pdf) :      Lightness (Feb. 27th) 
                                           Reading Material : http://persci.mit.edu/people/adelson/publications/gazzan.dir/gazzan.htm
                                           "Lightness Perception and Lightness Illusions" by Edward Adelson 
                                           Chapter 24 in M. Gazzaniga, ed., The New Cognitive Neurosciences, 2nd ed.
                                           Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 339-351, 2000.
   Class 10 (ppt)  (pdf) :     Human perceptual grouping (March 4th) 
                                           Please make sure that the pointer to the extra reading "Laws of organization in
                                           perceptual forms" is http://psy.ed.asu.edu/~classics/Wertheimer/Forms/forms.htm 
                                           (The note has a typo "http://psy.edu/...")
   Class 11                    :     Review and QnA over the range of Q1.  
   Class 12                    :     The first Quiz  (March 11th) 
   Class 13                    :     The reviews on the first Quiz (March 13th) 
   Class 14 (ppt) (pdf)  :     E-M  (March 18th) 
                                          (Tutorial : m-file1 , m-file2)
                                          Reading Material : E-M tutorial (http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~yweiss/emTutorial.pdf
   Class 15 (ppt) (pdf) :     Active Contours - SNAKES -  (March 20th)
   Class 16 (ppt) (pdf) :     Stereo (1) -  (April 1st)    Chapter 11 of Forsyth and Ponce
   Class 17                   :     Stereo (2) -  (April 3rd)    Chapter 11 of Forsyth and Ponce 
   Class 18 (ppt) (pdf) :     Structure from Motion (1 ) -  (April 8th)    Chapter 12 of Forsyth and Ponce
   Class 19                   :     Structure from Motion (1 ) -  (April 10th)   - Continued 
   Class 20 (ppt) (pdf) :     Structure from Motion (2) -  (April 15th)    Chapter 12 of Forsyth and Ponce
   Class 21                   :     Structure from Motion (2) -  (April 17th)    
                                         (Structure from motion 2 - Tutorial m-file) 
   Class 22 (ppt) (pdf) :    Matching -  (April 22nd)  
   Class 23                   :    The 2nd Quiz  (April 24th) 
   Class 24                   :    Matching  (continued) and Quiz review (April 29th)  
                                         (Matlab code of problem10)
   Class 25                   :    Recognition (1) -  (May 1st)  
   Class 26 (ppt) (pdf) :    Recognition (2) -  (May 6th)  
   Class 27 (ppt) (pdf) :    Lighting  -  (May 8th)  

 

Useful Links

 Image Processing Learning resources:
    http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/HIPR2/index.htm

 MATLAB resources:

  Introductory Tutorials

  Slightly more advanced Tutorials

  More complete references/tutorials/FAQs

 Computer Vision related sites: