Computer Vision - CSCI-GA.2271-001

Semester: Fall 2020.

Time and Location: Thursday 7:10-9:00pm EST, Online. See NYU classes for Zoom link.

Instructor: Rob Fergus     

Office hours: Thursday 5:45-6:45pm, In Person + Virtual, Room 312, Warren Weaver Hall.
                      Thursday 9.30-10:30pm, Virtual.
                      Office hours Zoom link

Course TAs: Hemant Singh (hs3644@nyu.edu), Karanbir Chahal (ksc487@nyu.edu)
  Office Hours: Karanbir -- Mon 10am-12pm, Room 312, Warren Weaver Hall.
                          Hemant -- Mon 3-5pm, Room 1314, Warren Weaver Hall.

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: 17% 17%, 17%, 49%.

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 09/03/2020
 19:10-21:00 1. Introduction, Image Formation Pt. 1 Szeliski, Ch. 1 and 2; F & P, Ch. 1
Thur 09/03/2020
 19:10-21:00 2. Image Formation Pt. 2 (Slides - PDF)
WEEK 2
Thur 09/10/2020
 19:10-21:00 3. Neural nets 1
Thur 09/10/2020
 19:10-21:00 4. Neural nets 2 (Slides - PDF)

Assignment 1 Out (Part 1) (Part 2) (Dataset)
WEEK 3
Thur 09/17/2020
 19:10-21:00 5. Convolutional Networks 1 (Slides - PDF)
Thur 09/17/2020
 19:10-21:00 6. Convolutional Networks 2
WEEK 4
Thur 09/24/2020
 19:10-21:00 7. Object Classification 1 (Slides - PDF)
Thur 09/24/2020
 19:10-21:00 8. Object Classification 2
WEEK 5
Thur 10/01/2020
 19:10-21:00 9. Detection
Thur 10/01/2020
 19:10-21:00 10. Detection (PDF)
Thur 10/01/2020
 19:00 Assignment 1 Due

Assignment 2 Out Link
WEEK 6
Thur 10/08/2020
 19:10-21:00 11. Self-supervised learning
Thur 10/08/2020
 19:10-21:00 12. Self-supervised learning (PDF)
WEEK 7
Thur 10/15/2020
 19:10-21:00 13. RNNs
Thur 10/15/2020
 19:10-21:00 14. Image Captioning (PDF)
Thur 10/15/2020
 19:00 Project Abstracts Due
WEEK 8
Thur 10/22/2020
 19:10-21:00 15. Visual Q & A
Thur 10/22/2020
 19:10-21:00 16. Visual Q & A (PDF)
WEEK 9
Thur 10/29/2020
 19:10-21:00 17. Optical flow
Thur 10/29/2020
19:10-21:00 18. Video Recognition (PDF)
Thu 10/29/2020
 23:59 Assignment 2 Due
WEEK 10
Thur 11/05/2020
 19:10-21:00 19. Semantic segmentation & Image processing (PDF)
Thur 11/05/2020
 19:10-21:00 20. Efficient evaluation (PDF)
WEEK 11
Thur 11/12/2020
 19:10-21:00 21. Unsupervised learning & GANs (PDF)
Thur 11/12/2020
 19:10-21:00 22. Unsupervised Learning & GANs
WEEK 12
Thur 11/19/2020
 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 11/19/2020
 19:10-21:00 24. Local Features, Image Alignment and Matching (PDF) Winder and Brown 2007

Assignment 3 Out (PDF) (assignment3.zip)
WEEK 13
Thanksgiving Break (No class)
WEEK 14
Thur 12/03/2020
 19:10-21:00 25. Epipolar geometry Szeliski, Ch. 7; F & P ch. 10 & 11;
Thur 12/03/2020
 19:10-21:00 26. Stereo reconsruction (PDF)
WEEK 15
Thur 12/10/2020
 19:10-21:00 27. Multi-view stereo Szeliski, Ch. 14
Thur 12/10/2020
 19:10-21:00 28. Large scale structure from motion. (Slides - PDF)
EXAM WEEK
Thur 12/17/2020
 19:10-21:00 Project Presentations
Thur 12/17/2020
 19:00 Assignment 3 Due
Thurs 12/17/2020
 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.