Readings

WEEK 1: Sept 2

Readings
  • S. W. Zucker. Early Vision. Encyclopaedia of Artificial Intelligence, 2:1131--1152, 1987.
    Start Date: Sept 2nd. Summary Due: Sept 14th.

    • WEEK 2: Sept 7, 9

    Readings
  • D. H. Hubel and T. N. Wiesel. Brain Mechanisms of Vision. Scientific American, 241:150--162, 1979.
    Start Date: Sept 7th. [No summary required]
  • P. Parent and S. W. Zucker. Trace Inference, Curvature Consistency, and Curve Detection.
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 11(8):823--839, 1989.
    Start Date: Sept 9th Summary Due: Sept 21st.
    		• Notes
  • Student Prepared Course Notes notes on Biological Vision
  • David Heeger's notes on Linear Systems
    Introductory (ps) (PDF)
    Advanced (pdf)
  • Mike Langer's notes on edge detection and spatial vision (pdf)
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    WEEK 3: Sept 14, 16

    Readings
  • P. Parent and S. W. Zucker. Trace Inference, Curvature Consistency, and Curve Detection.
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 11(8):823--839, 1989.
    Start Date: Sept 9th Summary Due: Sept 21st.
    		• Reference Material and Notes
    • Manfredo P. Do Carmo. Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces. Chapter 1: Sections 1-5.
    • Trace Inference (ps.gz) (PDF)
    • Relaxation Labeling (ps.gz) (PDF)

    WEEK 4: Sept 21, 23

    Readings
  • R. A. Hummel and S. W. Zucker. On the Foundations of Relaxation Labeling Processes.
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 5(3):267--287.
    Start Date: Sept 23rd. Summary Due: Oct 5th.
  • Max Wertheimer. Laws of Organization in Perceptual Forms .
    Start Date: Sept 23rd. [No summary required]
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    WEEK 5: Sept 28, 30

    Readings
  • Lance Williams and David Jacobs. Stochastic Completion Fields: A Neural Model of Illusory Contour Shape and Salience. Neural Computation 9(4):837858, 1997.
    Start Date: Sept 30th. Summary Due: Oct 12th.
    •      		Notes
  • Greg Dudek will be giving a guest lecture on "Statistical Models of 2D and 3D Structure" on Sept. 30th.
  • See Lance William's home page for related articles.
  • See David Jacob's home page for related articles.

    • WEEKS 6 and 7: October 5, 7, 12, 14

    Readings
  • Jan J Koenderink. What does the occluding contour tell us about solid shape? Perception, 13:321330, 1984.
    Start Date: Oct 5th. Summary Due: Oct 14th.
  • James Sethian. Level Set Methods (Chapters 1 and 2). Start Date: October 14th.[No Summary Required]
  • James Sethian. Level Set Methods (Chapter 5). Start Date: October 16th.[No Summary Required]
    		• Notes
  • James Sethian's home page .
  • Stanley Osher's home page .

    • WEEK 8: October 19, 21

    Readings
  • Ravi Malladi, James Sethian and Baba Vemuri. Shape Modeling With Front Propagation: A Level Set Approach. IEEE Transactions On Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 17(2):158-175, 1995.
    Start Date: October 19th. Summary Due: October 30th.
  • Vicent Caselles, Ron Kimmel and Guillermo Sapiro. Geodesic Active Contours. International Journal of Computer Vision, 22(1):61-79, 1997.
    Start Date: October 21st. Summary Due: November 2nd.
    •      		Notes

    WEEK 9: October 26, 28


    Readings
  • M. Langer and S. W. Zucker. Shape From Shading On a Cloudy Day. Journal of Optical Society of America, 11:467478, 1994.
    Start Date: October 26th. Summary Due: November 4th.
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    WEEK 10: November 2, 4


    Readings
  • M. Langer and S. W. Zucker. Shape From Shading On a Cloudy Day. Journal of Optical Society of America, 11:467478, 1994.
    Start Date: October 26th. Summary Due: November 4th.
  • Robert A. Hummel. Representations based on Zero-crossings in Scale-Space. IEEE Conference On Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 204209, 1986.
    [No Summary Required]

    • WEEK 11: November 9, 11


    Readings
  • P. Perona and J. Malik. Scale-Space and Edge Detection Using Anisotropic Diffusion. IEEE Transactions On Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 12(7):629639, 1990.
    Start Date: Nov 9th. Summary Due: Nov 23rd.
  • B. M. ter Haar Romeny. Front End Vision and Multi-Scale Image Analysis, 2003. Chapters 1, 2, 3.
    Start Date: Nov 9th. [No summaries required]

    • WEEK 12: November 16, 18


    Readings
  • T. Lindeberg. Scale-space for Discrete Signals. IEEE Transactions On Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 12(3):234254, 1990. Focus on Sections I to V.
    Start Date: Nov 9th. Summary Due: Nov 23rd.
  • B. M. ter Haar Romeny. Front End Vision and Multi-Scale Image Analysis, 2003. Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
    Start Date: Nov 13th. [No summaries required]

    • WEEK 13: November 23, 25


    Wrap-Up
    		 Research Project Presentations

    November 25th:
  • Christian: 2:30 pm
  • Derek: 2:50 pm
  • Michael: 3:10 pm
  • Prakash: 3:30 pm
  • Peter: 3:50 pm

    • WEEK 14: November 30, December 2nd


    Research Project Presentations

    November 30th:
  • Shufei: 2:30 pm
  • Svetlana: 2:50 pm
  • Ryan: 3:10 pm
  • Dan: 3:30 pm
  • Yingfeng: 3:50 pm