COMP 558 - Winter 2013

This course is an introduction to the fundamentals of Computer Vision, taught by Prof. Kaleem Siddiqi.

Office hours: Tuesdays 2-3PM @ McConnell 312

Assignment 3 - Skeletal Graphs


Assignment: assign3.pdf
Available: Wednesday, April 3rd
Due: Wednesday, April 24th, 2013

Here are the test images for your signed distance function. To make them human-readable we are showing the .PNG version here but you should download and work with the .PPM files (by clicking on the image).


Topics to be covered

  • 2D Euclidean signed distance function
  • Average outward flux and medial axis computations

Assignment 2 - Stereo


Assignment: assign2.pdf
Available: Friday, February 17th
Due: Tuesday, March 7th. (extended to Thursday, March 14th)

Stereo pairs:


Topics to be covered

  • Fundamental matrix estimation
  • Epipole location
  • Stereo reconstruction

Assignment 1 - Signal Processing


Available: Thursday, January 26th
Due: Wednesday, February 6th

Link to assignment

Image for question 3:


Topics to be covered

  • 2D signal convolutions
  • 2D Fourier transforms
  • Image filtering and processing

Tutorial 1


Location: 11am-1pm, January 25th @ Trottier 3060

This tutorial will help you get started with the MATLAB environment. It will be highly interactive so bring your laptop if you have MATLAB installed on it! If you don't have one you can always use the lab computers or team up with someone else in the class.

Topics to be covered

  • Basic arithmetic
  • Vector and matrix computations
  • Saving / loading data
  • Basic image processing
  • Anything you might suggest!