ECE-5973: Computer VisionA bit about this courseVision is the most important sense organ of humans and many other animals. We rely on our vision systems to explore the surrounding, recognize objects, and perform complex task such as driving our cars and manipulating tools. There have been drastic advancements in the field computer vision for the last decade. Many vision tasks, such as face recognition, that were very difficult a couple decades ago have become routine components even in our cellphone applications. However, other vision tasks, such as scene understanding and image captioning, are still rather difficult and existing computer vision algorithms perform poorly comparing to humans. Therefore, computer vision is still a very active research area. The goal of this course is multiple folds: to provide students the core foundation so that they can understand the existing CV algorithms behind those systems, to involve them with hands-on experience in implementing existing algorithms so that they can build basic CV systems on their owns, and to prepare them with sufficient technical depth so that they can contribute to CV research after the course. PrerequistesCalculus (MATH 1914 or equivalent), linear algebra (MATH 3333 or equivalent), basic probability (MATH 4733 or equivalent), and intermediate programming skill (Python/Numpy is required) Disscusion forumPlease sign up Discord through the link on Canvas. Please raise any questions, comments, or concerns there. You may contact me privately through Discord as well. Office HoursThere are no “regular” office hours. Please contact me through Discord. I typically respond within 24 hours. Textbook
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ProjectsThe goal of the project is actually to get your hands dirty. There is a broad scope of valid and sound projects. At one extreme, you may do a more research-oriented project involving improving a tiny scope of computer vision. For example, you may have an idea to enhance edge detection and would like to try it out. You do not need to build a complete application for this kind of project, but you must include sufficient comparisons to prior approaches to give a fair evaluation. And of course, you have to conduct adequate literature studies to include the most representative methods for comparison. For example, if you propose a new edge detection method, you should compare it with the Canny detector for the minimum. On the other extreme, you can also do an application-oriented project. In that case, you will bother less with the individual techniques. But try to build an interesting application to solve some problems. For example, you may build a prototype app to take student attendance. You may set the camera to a fixed location and when a student moved towards the camera. They will be automatically recognized and have their attendance recorded. In this kind of project, you will focus more on what technologies/methods are needed for your application (say, in my case, I will definitely need face recognition). Then, you may want to search if there is an open-source implementation of such a module that can use along with OpenCV (should be many). And your main job will be piecing everything together. Of course, your project can fall in the middle of the above. The bottom line, your final report should be able to convince the readers that you have put sufficient effort into pursuing what you planned to do. So it is crucial to keep a detailed log of what you have been doing. In case things didn't go well, you can at least document your unsuccessful attempts in the final report. PresentationFor presentations, please only pick more recent works (2010 and beyond). For projects, it is okay to work on older topics. And you are expected to try to test and implement the methods for the project. For the presentation, it is sufficient as far as you understand the technique completely. You may also try to borrow idea from the list below.
Assigning GradesGrading Breakdown and Components
Final grade:
Late PolicyThere are several reasons why it is important to turn assignments in on time (some of them according to ChatGPT):
To motivate you keeping on track with assignments, there is a mild penalty for late assignment as follows.
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