BU CAS CS 585: Image and Video Computing

Syllabus

Required Readings:

Selected parts of Machine Vision by R. Jain, R. Kasturi, and B. G. Schunck, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1995. The selected readings are marked in course outline with the letter 'C'.

A collection of readings from journals and conference proceedings. Collected readings are shown enclosed in brackets for the lecture in which they will be discussed.

Supplementary Texts (optional):

Digital Image Processing, by K. R. Castleman, Prentice Hall, 1996.

A Guided Tour of Computer Vision, by Nalwa, Addison Wesley, 1993.

Matlab Image Processing Toolbox User's Guide, The MathWorks, Inc., 1993.

Other books on reserve at Barker Engineering Library.

Course Outline (subject to change): 
 
Sep
   T 3  Overview			   C1        P0 out 
   R 5  Binary image algorithms 	   C2   
   T 10 Geometric properties, morphology             P0 due, P1 out
   R 12 Region processing                  C3
   T 17 Region segmentation                
   R 19 Image filtering			   C4
   T 24 Image transforms         	             
   R 26 Multiscale representations         [1,2]

Oct
   T 1  Edge detection 	                   C5	     P1 due, P2 out
   R 3  Digital watermark, steganography   [3]  
   T 8  Edges, contours                    C6        
   R 10 Curve matching and approximation   [4,5]	 
   T 15 Monday schedule: no class
   R 17 Active contours
   T 22 Texture measures                   C7        P2 due, P3 out
   R 24 Texture, shape from texture
   T 29 Image formation and irradiance     C8,9                              
   R 31 Shape from shading 		   [6]

Nov
   T 5  View-based models                  [14,15]
   R 7  Detection, recognition, pose est.
   T 12 Motion estimation		   C14      
   R 14 Motion tracking, recursive est.	   [11,12]   
   T 19 Optic flow, parameter estimation              P3 due, P4 out
   R 21 Mosaics, Image warping		   [9,10] 
   T 26 Structure from motion              [13]        
Thanksgiving

Dec
   T 3  visiting lecture: Steve Mann
   R 5  Shape representation		   [17,18]	
   T 10 Object recognition                            P4 due
Readings
  1. P. Burt and E. Adelson, The Laplacian pyramid as a compact image code, IEEE Trans. Comm. 31, 1983, 532-540.
  2. P. Burt and E. Adelson, A multiresolution spline with application to image mosaics, ACM Trans. Graphics 2, 1983, 217-236.
  3. I. Cox, J. Kilian, T. Leighton, and T. Shamoon, Secure Spread Spectrum Watermarking for Multimedia, NEC Research Institute Technical Report 95-10.
  4. M. Kass, A. Witkin, and D. Terzopoulos, Snakes: Active contour models, Int. J. Computer Vision 1, 1988, 321-331.
  5. A. Witkin, Scale-Space Filtering, Proc. of 8th Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, 1983, 1019-1022.
  6. A. Pentland and M. Bichsel, Extracting shape-from-shading, in Handbook of Pattern Recognition and Image Processing: Computer Vision, T. Young, ed., Academic Press, New York, 1994, 161-183.
  7. G. Healey and D. Slater, Global color constancy: recognition of objects by use of illumination-invariant properties of color distributions, J. Optical Society of America: A 11(11):3003-3010, 1994.
  8. M. Swain and D. Ballard. Color Indexing. International Journal of Computer Vision, 7(1):11--32, 1991.
  9. M. Irani, P. Anandan, and S. Hsu, Mosaic Based Representations of Video Sequences and Their Applications, Proc. 5th Int. Conf. Computer Vision, 1995, 605-611.
  10. R. Szeliski, Video Mosaics for Virtual Environments, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 16(2):22-30, 1996.
  11. T. Darrell and A. Pentland, Space-time gestures, Proc. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conf., 1993, 335-340.
  12. A. Blake and R. Curwen and A. Zisserman, A Framework for Spatiotemporal Control in the Tracking of Visual Contours, International Journal of Computer Vision, 11(2):127-146, 1993.
  13. C. Tomasi and T. Kanade, Factoring image sequences into shape and motion, Proc. IEEE Workshop on Visual Motion, 1991, 21-28.
  14. H. Murase and S. Nayar, Visual learning and recognition of 3-D objects from appearance, Int. J. Computer Vision, 14: 5-24, 1995.
  15. A. Pentland, B. Moghaddam, and T. Starner, View-Based and Modular Eigenspaces for Face Recognition, Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1994.
  16. A. Yuille, P. Hallinan, and D. Cohen, Feature extraction from faces using deformable templates, Int. J. of Computer Vision 8(2):99-111, 1992.
  17. R. Brooks, Model-based three-dimensional interpretations of two-dimensional images, IEEE Trans. on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, 5(2):140-149, 1988.
  18. A. Pentland, Perceptual Organization and Representation of Natural Form, Artificial Intelligence, 28(3):91-123, 1986. 

Stan Sclaroff

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Last Modified: August 28, 1996