Computer Vision 2016/2017

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Final Project:

Download the package with all the information needed to develop your final project for the exam. Follow the instructions inside.

NOTE: Submission of the final project must be performed via moodle

Assignments:

• Assignment 1 Due date: March, 6th 2017
• Assignment 2 Due date: March, 15th 2017
• Assignment 3 Due date: April, 30th 2017

Course slides:

1. Introduction
2. Image Formation Process
3. Intensity transformations
4. Color Vision
5. Spatial Filtering
6. Filtering in Frequency Domain
7. Edge Features
8. Morphological Image processing
9. Finding Curves
10. Point Features
11. Geometric Primitives and Transformations
12. The Pinhole Camera Model

Other materials:

• Lab Companion Guide
• Chroma key Matlab example
• Lab session #1 code
• Lab session #2 code

Last Lesson:

> March 27st

Lab Session #4: The final project

Past Lessons:

> March 21st

The Pinhole camera model

• Camera obscura
• Cameras and Lenses
• Radial distortion
• The pinhole model
• Intrinsic and Extrinsic parameters

> March 20th

Lab session #3

• Geometric primitives
• The 2D Projective space
• Homogeneous coordinates
• Projectivities
• Image warping and interpolation

> March 14th

Point Features (part 2)

• Scale-invariant Feature Transform (SIFT)

> March 13th

Point Features (part 1)

• Harris corner detector

> March 7th

Finding curves

• Finding lines
• The RANSAC algorithm
• The Hough transform for lines
• The Hough transform for circles and other curves

> March 6th

Lab session #2: Morphological image processing

• Dilation and Erosion
• Opening and closing
• Boundary following

> February 28th

Edge features

• Features in computer vision
• Edge models
• Image gradient
• Derivatives and noise
• Marr-Hildreth edge detector
• Canny edge detector

> February 27th

Filtering in the frequency domain

• Continuous Fourier transform
• DFT
• Spectrum / Phase angle
• 2D Convolution theorem
• Low-pass, High-pass filters
• Notch filters
• Deconvolution

> February 21st

Spatial Filtering

• Linear filter
• Correlation and Convolution
• Template matching
• Smoothing
• Order-statistic filter
• Sharpening

> February 20th

Lab session #1

> February 14th

Color vision

• Color fundamentals
• Human vision
• Color matching
• Color models
• Color cameras
• Transformations
• Chroma keying compositing

> February 13th

Intensity transformations

• Negative
• Gain/bias
• Log/Gamma
• Image Histogram
• Otsu global thresholding

> February 7th

The image formation process

• Light and the visible spectrum
• The BRDF
• The imaging process
• Sampling and Quantization
• Relationships between pixels

> February 6th

Introduction

• Course informations
• What is computer vision?
• Optical illusions to understand human vision
• Computer vision vs. Computer graphics
• Applications
• A brief history