EE 584 MACHINE VISION

SPRING 2011-2012

Course Syllabus ( pdf )

Instructor:

Prof. A. Aydın Alatan

(Room: C-204, Tel: 2102351, e-mail: alatan@eee.metu.edu.tr)

Textbook:

D.A. Forsyth and J. Ponce, “Computer Vision, A Modern Approach,” Prentice Hall, 2003.

References:

R. Szeliski, “Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications”, Springer 2010.

B. Cyganek and J.S. Siebert, “An Introduction to 3D Computer Vision Techniques and Algorithms”, Wiley, 2009.

R. Jain, R. Kasturi and B.G. Shunck, “Machine Vision”, McGraw-Hill Inc., 1995

B.K.P Horn, “Robot Vision”, The MIT Press, 1986

Internet Resources:

· Course webpage: http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~alatan/Courses/rvoutline.html

· METU Online: http://online.metu.edu.tr

· Vision Bibliography: http://iris.usc.edu/Vision-Notes/bibliography/contents.html

· Robert Fisher, Ken Dawson-Howe, Andrew Fitzgibbon, Craig Robertson, Emanuele Trucco, “Dictionary of Computer Vision and Image Processing”, John Wiley and Sons, June 2005 (available at http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/CVDICT)

· CVOnline : http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/CVonline

· HIPR2 : Free WWW-based Image Processing Teaching Materials with JAVA : http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/HIPR2/

· Tutorials on computer vision/image processing : http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/IAPR/researchers/D2PAGES/d2tut.htm

Grading :

25% Midterm

35% Final

30% Term Project

10% Homework

Outline :

Introduction

Binary Image Processing

Color

Regions and Segmentation

Edge Detection (Gaussian Curvature demo, Edge/Corner demo)

Photometric Stereo

Shape from Shading

Dynamic Vision

Stereo and Calibration

Structure from Motion