CSSE463 – Image Recognition

Winter 2014-2015

All electronic submissions are due at 9:00 am 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 30 Nov.

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

Sunset detector due (Weds 11:59 pm)

(23) 1/22: k-means segmentation (9.2.5) (24) 1/23: Lab 6: k-means
Due: Lit reviews
7: Segmentation and object detection (25) 1/26: Template matching (6.4) (26) 1/27: Hough transforms (6.2.6)

Lab 6 due (Weds)

(27) 1/29: PCA and applications (3.2.10) (28) 1/30: Lab 7: Hough transform or PCA
Due: Project plans and preliminary work (Sunday, 11:59)
8: Motion and special topics (29) 2/2: Surveillance and image flow (16.2)
(30) 2/3: Aperture problem,
Motion vectors (16.3)
Lab 7 due (Weds)
(31) 2/5: Bayesian classifiers (9.2.2) (32) 2/6: Lab: Projects
Due: Status report (8:00 am)
9: Special topics and project work (33) 2/9: Convolutional neural networks (guest lecture) (34) 2/10: Lab: Projects (35) 2/12: Test 2 (36) 2/13: Lab: Projects
Due: Status report (8:00 am)
10: Presentations (37) 2/16: In-class presentations: Word Search Solver
(38) 2/17: in-class presentations: Money, RockerHero
(39) 2/19: In-class presentations: Music to MIDI, Sudoku
(40) 2/20:
Course evals
In-class presentation: IGVC
Due: final project (code, report, and presentations), 11:59 PM