CSC 249/449 Computer Vision: Assignments

• The assignments will be posted here after the day's class, along with the due date. Assignments are due at the beginning of class on the due date. In general, no credit will be allowed for for late assignments. Turn what you have in in for partial credit.
  
  
• For any assignment, I expect a well organized report-style writeup that describes in detail what you did, why you did it, and what the results were. This includes negative results. Scratch work and computer code, if requested should be appended to the main writeup with appropriate pointers.
  
  
• Attribute ANY work that is not your own, including software off the web, text cribbed from other sources, etc. You are encouraged to look for resources, but not to the extent that it negates the point of the assignment. This is sometimes a fine line, especially in programming assignments. I will try to be specific as to what I expect you to write as a minimum. If in doubt, ask. In any case, use of UN-attributed material is plagiarism, and a violation of the University's academic honesty policy.
  
  
• You are encouraged to discuss general techniques and specific approaches to general problems with your fellow students, or anyone else. Unless specifically directed in an assignment, however, you are not to share code you have written, or your written solutions to specific problems.
  
  
• Assignments are graded on a scale of one to 10. In the final accumulation, this is multiplied by the weighting factor for the assignment (generally an integer between 1 and 4).
  
  

Class activities and Assignments

Thursday, January 14, 2010

• Class activity: Introductory material.
  
  
• Reference materials:
  Note set 1: Introduction to Computer Vision.
  
  
• Reading assignment: Sonka et al., chapter 1.
  
  
• Project Assignment: Self Portrait Weighting factor 2.
  Assigned: Thursday, January 14, 2010.
  Due: Tuesday, January 19, 2010.
  See Jim Roche (CSB 610) to get research lab acccounts.
  
  

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

• Class activity: Discussion of image basics.
  
  
• Reference materials:
  Note set 2: Image Formation and Representation.
  
  
• Reading assignment: Sonka et al., chapter 2.
  
  
• Project Assignment: Day and Night Weighting factor 2.
  Assigned: Tuesday, January 19, 2010.
  Due: Tuesday, January 26, 2010.
  
  

Thursday, January 21, 2010

• Class activity: Discussion of image formation, representation.
  
  
• Reference materials:
  Note set 2: Image Formation and Representation.
  
  
• Reading assignment: Sonka et al., chapter 3.
  
  

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

• Class activity: Image formation and representation cont.
• Low level image processing.
  
  

Thursday, January 28, 2010

• Class activity: Discussion of cameras.
  
  
• Project Assignment: Camera Characteristics Assigned: Thursday January 28, 2010.
  Due: Thursday, February 4, 2010.
  
  

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

• Class activity: Low level image processing: Binary images, Thresholding, Histograms etc.
  
  
• Reference materials:
  Note set 3: Low Level Image Processing.
  
  
• Reading assignment: Sonka et al., chapter 4.
  
  
• Class activity: Low level image processing: Enhancement, smoothing.
  
  
• Reading assignment: Sonka et al., Sections 5.1 (thresholding, histograms), 7.2.4 (clustering).
  
  

Thursday, February 4, 2010

• Class activity: Camera characteristics presentations.
  
  
• Class activity: Low level image processing: Pattern matching, SSD, SAD, Correlation, Edgel detection, etc.
  
  
• Reading assignment: Sonka et al., Sections 5.2.1 (local edges), 5.4 (correlation, matching)
  
  

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

• Class activity: Low level image processing: Convolution, Fourier Transform.
  
  
• Reading assignment: Sonka et al., Chapter 12.
  
  
• Project Assignment: Fourier Domain Filtering Weighting factor 4.
  Assigned: Tuesday, February 9, 2010. Due: Tuesday, February 16, 2010.
  
  

Thursday, February 11, 2010

• Class activity: Geometric transforms, Morphology
• Reading assignment: Sonka et al., Chapter 11 (morphology), Section 4.2 (Geometric transforms),
• Class activity: Radiometry: irradiance, brightness etc.
  
  
• Reading assignment: Sonka et al., section 9.3.
  
  

Tuesday, February 16, 2010