CSSE463 – Image Recognition

Winter 2013-2014

All electronic submissions are due at 1:30 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 7 Jan.

Week / Main topic Monday Tuesday Thursday Friday
1: Intro to images, color (1) 12/2: Intros, Images and color
Start Lab 1: Intro to Matlab
(Ch 1)
Optional help session 10th hour, O257
(2) 12/3: Color features
Due in class: Read sunset paper
Lab 1 due Weds 1:30 pm.
(2,2, 2,4)
(3) 12/5: Connected components, morphology in Matlab
Start Fruit-finder.
(13.1-13.3)
(4) 12/6: Lab 2: Color
Laptops for every lab
2: Global and local features, edges (5) 12/9: Global and local operators, filtering (5.1, 5.3) (6) 12/10: Edge Masks
Lab 2 due (Weds, 1:30 always)
(5.3)
(7) 12/12: Edge features
(5.3)
(8) 12/13: Lab 3: Edges and filters
Due: Fruit-finder 11:59 pm
3: More features (9) 12/16: Region properties (perimeter, circularity) (8.1-8.3). (10) 12/17: Spatial moments
Lab 3 due (Weds) (8.3)
(11) 12/19: Lab 4: Shape. (12) 12/20: Take-home test due 5:00 pm.
Christmas Break
4: Classifiers (13) 1/6: SNOW DAY (14) 1/7: SNOW DAY (15) 1/9: Classification concepts (9.2.1)
Lab 4 due (Thurs)
(16) 1/10: Support vector machines (9.2.4)
5: More classifiers (17) 1/13: Finish SVMs and demo SVM toolbox. Assign sunset detector (18) 1/14: Neural nets (9.3.1)
Lightning talk slides to dropbox (Weds 11:59 pm)
(19) 1/16: Lightning talks, assign teams
Lab 5 due (Thurs)
(20) 1/17: Lab day: sunset detector
6: Sunset detector and clustering (21) 1/20: Neural nets and SVM (22) 1/21: Project workday

Sunset detector due (Weds 11:59 pm)

(23) 1/23: k-means segmentation (9.2.5) (24) 1/24: Lab 6: k-means
Due: Lit reviews
7: Segmentation and object detection (25) 1/27: Midterm Exam (26) 1/28: Hough transforms (6.2.6)

Lab 6 due (Weds)

(27) 1/30: PCA and applications (3.2.10) (28) 1/31: Lab 7: Hough transform or PCA
Due: Project plans and preliminary work (Sunday, 11:59)
8: Motion and special topics (29) 2/3: Template matching (6.4) (30) 2/4: Surveillance and image flow (16.2)
Lab 7 due (Weds)
(31) 2/6: Aperture problem,
Motion vectors (16.3)
(32) 2/7: Lab: Projects
Due: Status report (11:00 am)
9: Special topics and project work (33) 2/10: Bayesian classifiers (9.2.2) (34) 2/11: Lab: Projects (35) 2/13: Test 2 (36) 2/14: Lab: Projects
Due: Status report (11:00 am)
10: Presentations (37) 2/17: In-class presentations:
Playing Card Recognition
OCR for LaTeX
(38) 2/18: In-class presentations:
Picto-Crypto
Tic Tac Toe
(39) 2/20: In-class presentations:
FRC Robot Tracker
Cursor Control Through Eye Movement
(40) 2/21:
Emotion detection
Course evals
Due: final project (code, report, and presentations), 11:59 PM