CSSE463 – Image Recognition

Winter 2007

All electronic submissions are due at 11:59 pm on the day indicated, unless a project presentation or 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.

Schedule last updated Jan 15.

Week Monday Tuesday Thursday Friday
1: Intro to images, color (1) 11/26: Intros, Images and color
Start Lab 0: Intro to Matlab
(2) 11/27: Color features
Due: Read sunset paper
Lab 0 due Weds.
Optional help session Tues7-9pm in O231.
(3) 11/29: Connected components, morphology in Matlab
Start fruit finder.
(4) 11/30: Lab 1: Color
2: Global and local features, edges (5) 12/3: Global and local operators, filtering (6) 12/4: Edge Masks
Lab 1 due (Weds)
(7) 12/6: Edge features (8) 12/7: Lab 2: Edges and filters
Due: Fruit-finder
3: More features (9) 12/10: Region properties (perimeter, circularity) (10) 12/11: Spatial moments
Lab2 due (Weds)
(11) 12/13: Classification concepts (12) 12/14: Lab 3: Shape.
Due: Written assignment 1 (5 pm if paper, else 11:59)
4: Classifiers (13) 12/17: Neural nets (14) 12/18: Support vector machines
Lab3 due (Weds)
(15) 12/20: Finish SVMs and demo. Assign sunset detector (16) 12/21: Lab 4: SVM toolbox.
Christmas Break
5: Exam and sunset detector (17) 1/7: Bayesian classifiers (18) 1/8: Exam Q&A
Lab4 due (Weds)
(19) 1/10: Exam (20) 1/11: Class cancelled
Time for sunset detector
6: Segmentation and clustering (21) 1/14: K-means segmentation (22) 1/15: PCA and applications
 
(23) 1/17: Q&A

Sunset detector due (Weds)

(24) 1/18: Lab 5: k-means
7: (25) 1/21: Lightning talks, assign teams (short class) (26) 1/22: Segmentation using normalized cuts

Lab5 due (Weds)

(27) 1/24: Hough transforms (28) 1/25: Lab 6: PCA
Due: Lit reviews
8: Motion and Special topics (29) 1/28: Surveillance and image flow (30) 1/29: Aperture problem,
Motion vectors
Lab 6 due (Weds)
(31) 1/31: Adaboost (32) 2/1: Project workday
Due: Project plans and preliminary work (11:59)
9: Special topics and project work (33) 2/4: Lab: Projects (34) 2/5: Lab: Projects. (35) 2/7: Lab: SIFT features or Projects (36) 2/8: In-class presentations: Salamanders, CardReader.
Due: Status report
10: Presentations (37) 2/11: In-class presentations: Handwriting, Paintings (38) 2/12: Course evals, Lab: Projects (Dr. B. at Wabash College) (39) 2/14: In-class presentations:
NEAT Faces, RoboCup
(40) 2/15: In-class presentations: ObjectDetection, LenoSpace
Due: final project (code, report, and presentations)