Computer Vision - CSCI-GA.2271-001

Semester: Fall 2018.

Time and Location: Thursday 7:10-9:00pm, Silver Center, 100 Washington Sq East. Room 405.

Instructor: Rob Fergus     

Office hours: Thursday 6:00-7:00pm, Silver Room 405.

Tutors: Anant Gupta (ag4508@nyu.edu), Mihir Rana (ranamihir@nyu.edu).
              Office Hours: 12-1.30pm, Room 502, 60 5th Ave.

Graders: Yi-Hsiang Kao (yhk342@nyu.edu), Anshul Sharma (as10950@nyu.edu).

Piazza Link: here


Overview

Computer Vision aims to extract descriptions of the world from pictures or video. In recent years, much progress has been made on this challenging problem. The course will start by looking the established area of geometric vision. It will then introduce the convolutional network model and describe the profound impact that it has had on problems in recognition, segmentation and many other vision problems.

Prerequisites

The course will be suitable for master's students and advanced undergraduates. A reasonable knowledge of linear algebra will be required, along with some basic concepts in machine learning. The homeworks will require PyTorch, so familiarity with it is desirable, although not essential.

Assessment

Assessment will be through three graded homework assignments and a final course project. The weighting across these will be: 10% 25%, 15%, 50%.

Late Policy

The policy regarding late homework is as follows: (a) assignments that are late by less than 24hrs will suffer a 10% reduction; (b) those between 24 and 72 hrs late will suffer a 25% reduction and (c) those more 72hrs late will suffer a 50% reduction. You are strongly encouraged to start the assignment early and don't be afraid to ask for help.

Schedule

Date Time Topics Relevant Book Chapters
WEEK 1
Thur 09/06/2018
 19:10-21:00 1. Introduction, Image Formation Pt. 1 Szeliski, Ch. 1 and 2; F & P, Ch. 1
Thur 09/06/2018
 19:10-21:00 2. Image Formation Pt. 2 (Slides - PPT) (Slides - PDF)

Assignment 0 Out (PDF) (assign0_data.py)
WEEK 2
Thur 09/13/2018
 19:10-21:00 3. Neural nets 1
Thur 09/13/2018
 19:10-21:00 4. Neural nets 2 (Slides - PDF)

Assignment 1 Out (iPython Notebook)
Thurs 09/13/2018
 23:59 Assignment 0 Due
WEEK 3
Thur 09/20/2018
 19:10-21:00 5. Convolutional Networks 1 (Slides - PPT) (Slides - PDF)
Thur 10/18/2018
 19:10-21:00 6. Convolutional Networks 2
WEEK 4
Thur 09/27/2018
 19:10-21:00 7. Object Classification 1 (Slides - PDF)
Thur 09/27/2018
 19:10-21:00 8. Object Classification 2
WEEK 5
Thur 10/04/2018
 19:10-21:00 9. Object Detection
Thur 10/04/2018
 19:10-21:00 10. Object Detection Pt.2 (PDF)
Thur 10/04/2018
 19:00 Assignment 1 Due

Assignment 2 Out (PDF)
WEEK 6
Thur 10/11/2018
 19:10-21:00 11. RNNs
Thur 10/11/2018
 19:10-21:00 12. Image Captioning (PDF)
WEEK 7
Thur 10/18/2018
 19:10-21:00 13. Visual Q & A
Thur 10/18/2018
 19:10-21:00 14. Visual Q & A (PDF)
WEEK 8
Thur 10/25/2018
 19:10-21:00 15. Optical Flow
Thur 10/25/2018
 19:10-21:00 16. Video (PDF)
Thur 10/25/2018
 23:59 Assignment 2 Due
WEEK 9
Thur 11/01/2018
 19:10-21:00 17. Semantic Segmenation, Image Processing (Slides - PDF)
Thur 11/01/2018
19:10-21:00 18. Efficient Evaluation (PDF)
WEEK 10
Thur 11/08/2018
 19:10-21:00 19. Unsupervised Learning 1 (PDF)
Thur 11/08/2018
 19:10-21:00 20. Unsupervised Learning 2
WEEK 11
Thur 11/15/2018
 19:10-21:00 21. GANs (PDF)
Thur 11/15/2018
 19:10-21:00 22. GANs
WEEK 12
Thanksgiving Break (No class)
WEEK 13
Thur 11/29/2018
 19:10-21:00 23. Local Features, Image Alignment and Matching Szeliski, Ch. 6; F and P, ch. 3.1 and 15; Lowe 2004
Thur 11/29/2018
 19:10-21:00 24. Local Features, Image Alignment and Matching (PDF) Winder and Brown 2007

Assignment 3 Out (PDF) (assignment3.zip)
WEEK 14
Thur 12/06/2018
 19:10-21:00 25. Epipolar geometry Szeliski, Ch. 7; F & P ch. 10 & 11;
Thur 12/06/2018
 19:10-21:00 26. Stereo reconsruction (PDF)
WEEK 15
Thur 12/13/2018
 19:10-21:00 27. Multi-view stereo Szeliski, Ch. 14
Thur 12/13/2018
 19:10-21:00 28. Large scale structure from motion. (Slides - PDF)
EXAM WEEK
Thur 12/20/2018
 19:10-21:00 Project Presentations
Thur 12/20/2018
 19:00 Assignment 3 Due
Fri 12/21/2018
 23:59 Project Due (Note that this is a strict deadline)

Acknowledgments

The instructor would like to thank Emily Denton, Kaiming He, Svetlana Lazebnik, Laurens van der Maaten, Yaniv Taigman and Andrew Zisserman for making their slides available.

Textbook

We will not be using any textbook in this class.