Syllabus for CSCI 631 - Foundations of Computer Vision
CLASS # Date Topic Readings/Speakers Homework
1 Thursday Aug 20 Introduction - Logistics, linear filters
2 Tuesday Aug 25 Convolution + Linear filters
3 Thursday Aug 27 Linear Filters + Edge detection HW1 - Linear filters
4 Tuesday Sep 01 Interest points
5 Thursday Sep 03 Interest points HW2 - Feature matching
6 Tuesday Sep 08 Texture and color
7 Thursday Sep 10 Texture and color HW3 - Classification with features
8 Tuesday Sep 15 Clustering Ranninger and Malik paper
9 Thursday Sep 17 Clustering
10 Tuesday Sep 22 Classifiers -and loss minimization- SVM, cross-entropy
11 Thursday Sep 24 The perceptron/Logistic regression/
12 Tuesday Sep 29 Neural networks and back prop HW4 - Hand-code NN with backprop
13 Thursday Oct 01 CNN and early image networks
14 Tuesday Oct 06 Backprop for CNN Guest speaker - Timothy Zee
15 Thursday Oct 08 CNN Interpretability Guest speaker - Timothy Zee
16 Tuesday Oct 13 Classification and Regression Networks YannLeCun CNN/Science paper HW5 - VGG implementation
17 Thursday Oct 15 RNN + LSTM
18 Tuesday Oct 20 Sequence to sequence model (captioning) Final project proposal
19 Thursday Oct 22 Attention networks
20 Tuesday Oct 27 Object detection
21 Thursday Oct 29 More on CNN applications
22 Tuesday Nov 03 ResNet and Inception Gkioxaris Mask-RNN paper
23 Thursday Nov 05 Advanced CNN models
24 Tuesday Nov 10 GANs Posters (no results needed)
25 Thursday Nov 12 Ethics in computer vision
26 Tuesday Nov 17 Poster presentation
27 Thursday Nov 19 Poster presentation
27 Tuesday Nov 24 LAST DAY OF CLASSES
28 Nov 26-27 No class - Thanksgiving break
FINALS
Monday Nov 30 READING DAY
Wednesday Dec 02 FINAL REPORTS DUE @ MIDNIGHT This can change