Computational Perception      (COMP 646)
Winter 2008     TJ  10:05-11:25    ENGMC 320


Instructor:    Professor Michael Langer
Office:        ENGMC 329
Tel:             514-398-3740
Email:          langer  [at] cim.mcgill.ca
Office Hours:   by appointment (send me email)
Teaching Assistant (T.A.)   Cathy Laporte
Office:                                      ENGMC 412 
Tel:                                           (514)398-8702
Email:                                        cathy [at] cim.mcgill.ca
Office Hours:                   by appointment (send her email)

Assignments, Exams, Resources.. 

Schedule and Lecture Notes

PART 1: VISUAL AND AUDITORY IMAGES

introduction to course (no lecture notes) -- Jan. 3

Vision   (Jan.  8,10,15,17)
1.1 - projective geometry, moving observer, ground plane, optical flow (PDF)
1.2 - binocular stereo, random dot stereograms,  disparity and depth (PDF)
1.3 - gradients: disparity, weak perspective, slant vs. tilt (PDF)
1.4 - focus: forward vs. reverse projection, thin lens formula (PDF)

Audition   (Jan. 22, 24)
1.5 - sound:  pressure, dB, speed, intensity and timing differences (PDF)
1.6 - waves, frequency & wavelength, HRIR and HRTF (PDF)


PART 2:  IMAGE PROCESSING 

Vision   (Jan. 29, 31,  Feb. 5,7)
2.1 - retina, lateral inhibition, spikes, edges (PDF)
2.2 - V1, simple and complex cells & models, oriented texture segmentation (PDF)
2.3 - motion: directionally tuning, aperture problem (PDF)
2.4 - even vs. odd, binocular complex cells, phase (PDF)

Audition  (Feb. 14,19)
2.5 - intro to hearing (ear, place coding) (PDF)
2.6 - critical bands, spectrograms (PDF)


PART 3: SHAPE AND DISTANCE PERCEPTION

Vision   (Feb. 21,  Mar. 4, 6, 11)
3.1 - shape from shading 1  (PDF)
3.1 - shape from shading 2  (PDF) and links to talks
3.3 - shape from texture,  depth from defocus  (PDF)
3.4 - heading, motion parallax, depth from motion (PDF)

Audition  
(Mar. 13, 18)
3.5 - sound localization (PDF)
3.6 - echolocation and echorecognition (PDF)

PART 4: STUDENT PRESENTATIONS   (schedule)   (Mar. 25, 27, Apr. 1,3, 8]