Week

Topics

Assignments

1

What is computer vision? Applications areas. Papers/projects.

Look at papers, think about project

2

Schematics for CV. Image algebra. Preprocessing, enhancement, segmentation.

Assignment of projects, presentation times for Week 5.

3

Mathematical morphology. Thinning/skeletonizing.

Chap. 7, 5 in textbook 

4

Edge/contour detection, region modeling. Stochastic modeling. Textures.

5

Student presentations: Abstract and Introduction/Background.

Assign presentation times for Weeks 7/8.

6

Surface representation. Optimization. Evolutionary computing and genetic algorithms.

7

Student presentations.

Assign presentation times for Week 10.

8

Student presentations.

9

Wavelets.

10

Student presentations.

Assign presentation times for Weeks 12/13.

11

Lectures on paper topic.

12

Student presentations.

13

Student presentations. Exam (11/18)

 Assign final presentation times.

14

Thanksgiving break.

15

Students' presentations of summaries of papers.

16

Dead week.

 All viewgraphs, summaries, and reports due.