MIT CSAIL 6.869: Advances in Computer Vision
Fall 2012
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This schedule is preliminary and subject to change as the term evolves. Please refer to Course Materials page for lecture notes and slides.

 

Lecture	Date	Topic	Lecturer	Extra Readings	Assignments
Week 1
1	Thu Sep 6	Simple linear vision system	Antonio	Papert (1966)	ps1 out
R	Fri Sep 7	Matlab Tutorial	Jianxiong	Code
Week 2
2	Tue Sep 11	Linear Filters	Antonio	[Sz] 3.2, 3.3
3	Thu Sep 13	Pyramids and scale space	Antonio	[Sz] 3.4, 3.5 Burt & Adelson (1983) Freeman & Adelson (1991)
Week 3
4	Tue Sep 18	Image statistics I	Antonio	Barrow & Tenenbaum (1978) Simoncelli (2005)
5	Thu Sep 20	Image statistics II	Antonio	Fergus (2006)
Week 4
6	Tue Sep 25	Color	Bill Freeman	[Sz] 2.2, 2.3.2, [FP] 6	ps2 out
7	Thu Sep 27	Texture	Antonio	Julesz (1981) Heeger & Bergen (1995) Portilla & Simoncelli (1998) Efros & Leung (1999)
Week 5
8	Tue Oct 2	Edges and Segmentation	Antonio	Shi & Malik (2000)
9	Thu Oct 4	Image formation models	Antonio
Week 6
	Tue Oct 9	NO CLASS (Columbus Day – Holiday)
	Thu Oct 11	NO CLASS (ECCV)
Week 7
10	Tue Oct 16	Calibration and stereo	Antonio
11	Thu Oct 18	Shape-from-X	Antonio	Single view metrology Automatic Photo Pop-up
Week 8
12	Tue Oct 23	Image features	Antonio	[Sz] 11
13	Thu Oct 25	Homographies and RANSAC	Antonio	[Sz] 4
Week 9
14	Tue Oct 30	Markov Random Fields	Antonio	[Sz] 6.1
15	Thu Nov 1	Motion: continuous	Ce Liu	[Sz] 8
Week 10
16	Tue Nov 6	Motion: discrete	Ce Liu
17	Thu Nov 8	Tracking	Antonio
Week 11
18	Tue Nov 13	Structure from motion	Antonio
19	Thu Nov 15	Object recognition I	Antonio	[Sz] 14.1,14.2
Week 12
20	Tue Nov 20	Object recognition II	Antonio
	Thu Nov 22	NO CLASS (Thanksgiving Vacation)
Week 13
21	Tue Nov 27	Object recognition III	Antonio
22	Thu Nov 29	Writing papers and giving talks	Antonio
Week 14
23	Tue Dec 4	Internet vision	Antonio
24	Thu Dec 6	Scene understanding	Antonio
Week 15
25	Tue Dec 11	Final project presentations	Antonio
	Thu Dec 12				project reports due