Course pages 2014–15

Computer Vision

• Lecture Notes (PDF), or here is a 2-up version of Lecture Notes (formatted better for laptops).
  

• Exercises with embedded solutions
  

• Practicals (developed by L Swirski, C Richardt, and T Baltrusaltis)
  

• Supplementary demonstrations (PPT) of mathematical operations in early vision. (Slide credits to: C Town, A Torralba, D Forsyth, K Grauman, B Macq, S Seitz, L Lazebnik, M Irani, B Leibe, A Poonawala, D Lowe)
  

  
  

• Weekly study guide

  • (30 Jan 2015): Exercises 1 - 5, and Practicals 1 & 2 (on edge detection and other early vision operations).
    

  • (6 Feb 2015): Exercises 6 - 9.
    

  • (13 Feb 2015): Exercises 10 - 13.
    

  • (20 Feb 2015): Exercises 14 - 18.
    Also study this compelling lightness illusion, this illustration of colour-constancy, this motion illusion, and this collection of dynamic, colour, and cognitive illusions, and try to explain them! More collections exist here and here.
    

  • (27 Feb 2015): Exercises 19 - 22, and Practicals 3 & 4 (on panorama stitching, a form of the Correspondence Problem, and an OCR Bayesian classifier).
    

  • (6 Mar 2015): Exercises 23 - 26.
    View this 5-minute video about 3-D morphable face representations. Here is a background paper about face recognition.