EE/CNS/CS 148 - Spring 2003

Lectures notes


 





 
 
The syllabus from the Spring 2000 Recognition class is here

Lecture 1:
Summary:
Introduction to Recognition: object categories - performance of humans - problems faced by recognition - brief introduction to recognition based on a constellation model and recognition based on feature matching.
04/01/03
Notes
Presentation 

 
 
Lecture 2:
Summary:
Match filtering - correlation with a template and thresholding - evaluation of the performance of the recognition system: visualization with ROC (receiver operating characteristic) curve.
04/03/03
Notes
(ps) (pdf)
Matlab Code:
MatchedFilter.m ROC.m

 
 
Lecture 3:
Summary:
Formation of an image - Lambertian surfaces/specular surfaces - RGB images - changes in contrast and brightness and invariance with respect to those - Principal components analysis: singluar values decomposition, computation of the subspace that best represents the data in a given number of dimensions.
04/08/03
Notes
(ps) (pdf) Presentation
Matlab Code:
PCA.m

 
 
Lecture 4:
Summary:
Singular value decomposition and properties - Fisher Linear Discriminants.
04/10/03
Notes:
(ps) (pdf)
Matlab Code:
fisherLD_PP.m

 
 
Lecture 5:
Summary:
k-nearest neighbors classifier - Bayesian classifier - estimation of probability densities (in particular gaussian densities) for use with a Bayesian classifier.
04/15/03
Notes:
Presentation

 
 
Lecture 6:
Summary:
The constellation model (part I) - Toy model of an object composed of only one part.
04/17/03
Notes:
(ps) (pdf)
Article:
ECCV2000 paper by M.Weber (former PhD student in the Vision Lab) - (ps.gz) (pdf)

 
 
Lecture 7:
Summary:
The constellation model (part II) - Object composed of several parts.
04/22/03
Notes:
(ps) (pdf)
Code:
lecture7.m

 
 
Lecture 11:
Summary:
Lowe's object recognition algorithm - Pierre Moreels
05/06/03
Notes:
(ps) (pdf)
Paper:
Original paper from David Lowe (iccv 99) (ps) (pdf)

 
 
Lecture 12:
Summary:
How to utilize attention for object recognition and unsupervised learning - Ueli Rutishauser
05/08/03
Notes:
(pdf)
Papers:
(Itti&Koch - 98) (Itti&Koch - 01) (Walther et al - 03)

 
 
Lecture 14:
Summary:
Viola & Jones' algorithm for object recognition - Adaboost - Anelia Angelova
05/15/03
Notes:
(pdf)
Matlab Code:
ABdemo.zip
Paper:
(Viola&Jones - 01)

 
 



 

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