Stanford University

CS 131 Computer Vision: Foundations and Applications

Fall 2013-2014


Lecture TA Session Date
(irregular lectures are highlighted)
Day of the week Module Description Instructor (if not Fei-Fei) Course Materials PS & PA
1 2013.09.23
9am-10:15am
Gates B12
M Introduction Introduction to Computer Vision slides PS0-release
2 2013.09.25 W Linear Algebra Primer 1
slides
See slides for additional links
PS1-release
3 2013.09.27
9am-10:15am
Gates 219
F Linear Algebra Primer 2
(Same slides as above)
1 2013.09.27
4:30-5:30
Gates 219
F Optional MATLAB Tutorial Luke Written MATLAB Intro
MATLAB videos (under section V, "Octave")
Green Screen demo files
4 2013.09.30 M Pixels, Features, and Cameras Pixels and Filters slides
Forsythe & Ponce: Ch 7
HW 2013.09.30
7-9pm
20-22K
M PS0 homework session (optional) Luke, Jiayuan Extra office hours for PS0 questions. No new material will be presented. Office hours
5 2013.10.02 W Edge detection, RANSAC slides
Forsythe & Ponce: Ch. 8, 15.2.2
PS0-due 5pm
6 2013.10.07 M Feature detector, Harris slides
Szeliski: Ch. 4.1.1
PA1-release
7 2013.10.09 W Difference of Gaussians, SIFT slides
David Lowe's SIFT paper
8 2013.10.11
9-10:15am
Gates 219
F Camera 1 slides
Forsythe & Ponce: Ch. 1-3
Hartley & Zisserman: Ch. 6
9 2013.10.14 M Camera 2 slides
Hartley & Zisserman: Ch. 10
Forsythe & Ponce: Ch. 10
10 2013.10.16 W Camera 3 (Same slides as above)
HW 2013.10.16
7-9pm
20-22K
W PS1 homework session (optional) Jiayuan, Luke Extra office hours for PS1 questions. No new material will be presented. Office hours
2 2013.10.18
9-10:15am
300-300
F Panorama Stitching
Jiayuan
slides PS1-due 5pm; 
11
2013.10.21 M Advanced 3D Vision Topics and Applications Dr. Abhijit Ogale from Google
12 2013.10.23 W Regions of Images, and Segmentation Basic Concepts of Segmentation slides
Forsythe & Ponce: Ch. 14.2, 14.4
PS2-release
13 2013.10.28 M K-means Clustering slides
Mean Shift paper
PA1-due 5pm
PA2-release
14 2013.10.30 W Feature tracking slides
Szeliski: Ch. 8.4,8.5
15 2013.11.04 M Advanced Image Parsing Topic and Applications Dr. Scott Cohen from Adobe slides
HW 2013.11.04
7-9pm
20-22K
M PS2 homework session (optional) Justin, Luke Extra office hours for PS2 questions. No new material will be presented. Office hours
3 2013.11.05
9-10:15am
200-303
Tu Figure-ground Segmentation Using Clustering Algorithms Justin slides
16 2013.11.06 W Recognizing Faces and Objects Basic Concepts in Recognition, Nearest Neighbor Match slides PS2-due 5pm
17 2013.11.11 M PCA and Eigenfaces slides
Eigenfaces paper
Fisherfaces paper
18 2013.11.13 W Tracking Millions of People Alex Alahi
slides
FREAK: Fast Retina Keypoint paper
FREAK library functions in the C++ OpenCV library
PA2-due 5pm
PA3-release
19 2013.11.18 M Perception Systems for Self-Driving Cars Alex Teichman PS3-release
20 2013.11.20 W Towards the AI Dream -- Fei-Fei's Yahoo! Big Thinker 2013 talk
4 2013.11.22
9-10:15am
Gates 219
F Exam Overview;
PA3 tutorial
Fei-Fei;
Luke
PA3 tutorial slides
HW 2013.12.01
7-9pm
20-22K
Sun. PS3 homework session (optional) Jiayuan, Justin Extra office hours for PS3 questions. No new material will be presented. Office hours
2013.12.03 Tu No Class PA3-due 5pm
2013.12.06 F No Class PS3-due 5pm
2013.12.11
8:30-11:30am
Gates B12
W Final Exam

Note: one single-sided 8.5x11" sheet of notes is allowed in the final.
TAs (updated) Exam study guide

Sample Final (much shorter than the real one) Solutions