M2R - MSc in Informatics

Option: Graphics Vision and Robotics

Computer Vision

Professors: James L. Crowley, Edmond Boyer, Peter Sturm

These class notes can be found at http://www-prima.imag.fr/Prima/jlc/Courses/2012/GVR.VO/GVR-VO.html
Classroom assignments are found on the ENSIMAG ADE web site

Lesson 1: Homogeneous Coordinates and Projective Cameras (James Crowley)

Thursday 27 Sept 2012 - 9:45 to 12:45 - CNAM 128

Points, Lines and Planes in Homogeneous Coordinates
Cross Products
Coordinate Transforms
The Projective Camera Model

Lesson 2: Projective Geometry (Edmond Boyer)

Thursday 4 October 2012 - 9:45 to 12:45 - CNAM 128

Lesson 3: Visual Perception in Man and Machine (James Crowley)

Friday 12 October 2012 - 14:00 to 17:00 - Salle 008 Montbonnot

The Human Visual System
Vergence, Version and Fixation
The Physics of Light
Color Spaces and Color Models

Lesson 4: View Invariant Image Description (James Crowley)

Thursday 18 October 2012 - 9:45 to 12:45 - CNAM 128

Edge detectors as image filters
Describing local appearance with derivatives

25 October 2012: No Class

03 November 2012 Fall Vacation (Toussaint)

Lesson 5: V iew Invariant Image Description (James Crowley)

Thursday 8 November 2012 - 9:45 to 12:45 - CNAM 128

Gaussan Derivatives as image filters
Rotation invariance and steerable filters
Interest Points
Image Scale Space

Lesson 6: Scale Space and Pyramids, Detection and Tracking (James Crowley)

Thursday 15 November 2012 - 9:45 to 12:45 - CNAM 128

Multi-resolution Image Pyramids
Integral Images
Pixel Level Detection using Receptive Fields
Moment Based Blob Detection
Bayesian Tracking of Blobs

Lesson 7: Learning Visual Pattern Detectors with Adaboost (James Crowley) CUEFA

Thursday 22 November 2012 - 9:45 to 12:45 - CNAM 128

Sliding Window Detectors
Linear Classifiers
Learning a committee of Classifiers with Ada Boost
Cascade Classifiers

Midterm Exam

Thursday 29 November 2012 - 9:45 to 12:45 - CNAM 128

(Open Book - Notes and references authorised)

Lesson 8: Calibration and Image Mosaics (Peter Sturm)

Friday 30 November 2012 - 13:30 to 16:30 - Salle 008 Montbonnot

Lesson 9: Structure from Motion (Peter Sturm) CUEFA

Thursday 6 December 2012 - 9:45 to 12:45 - CNAM 128

Lesson 10: Structure from Motion (Peter Sturm)

Thursday 13 December 2012 - 9:45 to 12:45 - CNAM 128

Lesson 11: Shape Models (Edmond Boyer)

Thursday 20 December 2012 - 9:45 to 12:45 - CNAM 128

27 December 2012 - Christmas Vacation

03 January 2013 - New Years Vacation

Lesson 12: Articulated Motion (Edmond Boyer)

Thursday 10 January 2013 - 9:45 to 12:45 - CNAM 128

17 January 2013 - Spare Lesson Slot

24 January 2013 - 9:00 to 12:00 - Final Exam - H206 ENSIMAG

Exercise Problem Sets (Do these at home or in a group)

Lesson 1: Homogeneous Coordinates and Projective Camera Models
Lesson 2:
Lesson 3: Projective Cameras and Color Models
Lesson 4: Edge Detection, Hough Transforms
Lesson 5: View Invariant Image Description
Lesson 6: Detection and Tracking
Lesson 7: ROC Curves
Lesson 8:
Lesson 9:
Lesson 10:
Lesson 11:
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Past Exams

M2R GVR 2011:    Computer Vision Exam from November 2011
M2R GVR 2010:     Computer Vision Exam from November 2010
M2R GVR 2009:     Computer Vision Exam from November 2009
M2R GVR 2008:   Computer Vision Exam from January 2009