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CS484: Introduction to Computer Vision

Fall 2024

Instructor

Min Hyuk Kim, [Room] 2403, [email]

Course description

 

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to low-level computer vision, including the foundations of camera image formation, geometric optics, feature detection, stereo matching, motion estimation, image recognition, scene understanding, etc. This course will help students develop intuitions and mathematics of various computer vision applications.

Lecture time and place

Tuesday and Thursday 1:00PM—2:30PM, N24 Bldg, Rm. 1102

TA office hours

Tuesday and Thursday 3:00PM—6:00PM, E3-1, Rm. 2401

Teaching Assistants

Inchul Kim (Head TA, ex. 7864, )
Donggun Kim (ex. 7864, )
Hyeongjoon Cho (ex. 7864, )
Seeha Lee (ex. 7864, )
Yeonwoo Lim (ex. 7864, )

Reference books

Richard Szeliski (2010) Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications, Springer [site]
Richard Hartley and Andrew Zisserman (2011) Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision, Cambridge Press [site]
Xiang Gao, Tao Zhang (2011) Introduction to Visual SLAM: From Theory to Practice, Splinger [site]
Christopher M. Bishop (2006) Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Springer [site]
Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville (2016) Deep Learning, MIT Press [site]

Prerequisites

There are no official course prerequisites. Basic knowledge of Python and LaTeX is fundamentally required to fulfill homework tasks.

Course goal

Student will establish theoretical and practical foundations of computer vision and be familiar with various computer vision applications.

Tentative schedule

(Note that this curriculum will be revised adaptively.)

  Index Date Lecture Slides HW Remarks
  0 09/03 No lecture      
  1 09/05 Introduction, light, human visual system KLMS    
  2 09/10 Color camera KLMS  
  3 09/12 Color transformation KLMS hw1  
    09/17 Chuseok Holiday      
  4 09/19 Image filter KLMS  
  5 09/24 Fourier transform KLMS hw2  
  6 09/26 Image formation model KLMS  
    10/01 Armed Forces Day      
    10/03 National Foundation Day      
  8 10/08 Homography, calibration, thin-lens optics KLMS    
  9 10/10 Epipolar geometry KLMS  
  10 10/15 Stereo matching KLMS    
  11 10/17 Multiview geometry KLMS hw3  
    10/22 Mid-term exam      
  12 10/29 Multiview geometry KLMS    
  13 10/31 3D scanning workflow KLMS    
  14 11/05 Feature detection KLMS  
  15 11/07 Feature matching KLMS    
  16 11/12 Feature descriptor KLMS hw4  
  17 11/14 Machine learning for computer vision KLMS    
  18 11/19 Classification KLMS    
  19 11/21 Clustering KLMS    
  20 11/26 Recognition (Bag-of-words) KLMS  
    11/28 KAIST admission interview exam      
    12/03, 05 SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Conference   hw5  
  21 12/10 Linear regression and denoising KLMS    
  22 12/12 RANSAC, generalization error, dimension reduction KLMS    
    12/17 Final exam      
             
             
             

Grading

Attendance (10%), mid-term exam (30%), final exam (30%), homework assignments (30%)

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