CSSE463 – Image Recognition

Winter 2016-2017

All electronic submissions are due at noon on the day indicated, unless specified otherwise.

Please note that future homework assignments are tentative based on previous course offerings. We may change assigned homework at any time before it is assigned. Schedule subject to change. Corresponding sections from Sonka, et al. are given at the end where appropriate.

Schedule last updated 21 Nov.

Week / Main topic Monday Tuesday Thursday Friday
1: Intro to images, color (1) 11/28: Intros, Images and color
Start Lab 1: Intro to Matlab
(Ch 1)
(2) 11/29: Color features
Due in class: Read sunset paper
Lab 1 due Weds noon.
(2,2, 2,4)
(3) 12/1: Connected components, morphology in Matlab
Start Fruit-finder.
(13.1-13.3)
(4) 12/2: Lab 2: Color
Laptops for every lab
2: Global and local features, edges (5) 12/5: Global and local operators, filtering (5.1, 5.3) (6) 12/6: Edge Masks
Lab 2 due (Weds, noon always)
(5.3)
(7) 12/8: Edge features
(5.3)
(8) 12/9: Lab 3: Edges and filters
Due: Fruit-finder 11:00 pm
3: More features (9) 12/12: Region properties (perimeter, circularity) (8.1-8.3) (10) 12/13: Spatial moments
Lab 3 due (Weds) (8.3)
(11) 12/15: Classification concepts (9.2.1) (12) 12/16: Lab 4: Shape.
4: Classifiers (13) 12/19: Support vector machines (9.2.4) (14) 12/20: Finish SVMs and demo.
Lab 4 due (Weds)
Formally assign sunset detector
Christmas Break
4b: Classifiers (15) 1/5: (Optional class if you have exam clarification questions)
Take-home test due 5:00 pm.
(16) 1/6: Lab 5: SVM toolbox.
5: Sunset detector (17) 1/9: Neural nets (9.3.1) (18) 1/10: Neural nets and SVM
Exam Q&A
Lab 5 due (Weds)
(19) 1/12: Lightning talks, assign teams (20) 1/13: Lab day: sunset detector
6: Segmentation and clustering (21) 1/16: (Project workday, 40 min from convocation) (22) 1/17: Midterm Exam (moved here from day 21 due to convocation)

Sunset detector due (Thursday, 11:00 pm)

(23) 1/19: k-means segmentation (9.2.5) (24) 1/20: Lab 6: k-means
Due: Lit reviews (Sunday, 11:00 pm)
7: Segmentation and object detection (25) 1/23: PCA and applications (3.2.10) (26) 1/24: Hough transforms (6.2.6)

Lab 6 due (Weds)

(27) 1/26: Bayesian classifiers (9.2.2) (28) 1/27: Lab 7: Hough transform or PCA
Due: Project plans and preliminary work (Sunday, 11:00)
8: Motion and special topics (29) 1/30: Surveillance and image flow (16.2)
(30) 1/31: Aperture problem,
Motion vectors (16.3)
Lab 7 due (Weds)
(31) 2/2: Template matching and HOG (6.4) (32) 2/3: Lab: Project Milestone Reviews
Due: Status report (8:00 am)
9: Special topics and project work (33) 2/6: Convolutional neural networks (35) 2/7: Guest lecture by David Crandall 4:20 PM (reserved for exam 2 after 2017) (34) 2/9: Lab: Projects (36) 2/10: Lab: Project Milestone Reviews
Due: Status report (8:00 am)
10: Presentations (37) 2/13:
Course evals
In-class presentation:
1 Champion
(38) 2/14: in-class presentations:
1 Face


(39) 2/16: In-class presentations:
1 Autos
2 Stabilizer
(40) 2/17:
In-class presentations:
1 Deep
2 Math
Due: final project (code, report, and presentations), 11:00 PM

Recent guest lectures

Trenton Tabor guest lecture