Announcements:
• Welcome to CS131!• Schedule information may change during the quarter; please visit the Syllabus page regularly to stay up to date.
Course Instructor:
Office: Room 246, Gates Building
Phone: (650) 725-3860
Office hours: Monday, 10:15-11:30am, Gates 246
Class forum on Piazza (please ask all questions here if possible): piazza.com/stanford/fall2014/cs131
Course Team Email (for privacy-sensitive questions): cs131-fall1415-staff@lists.stanford.edu
Course Assistants:
Marius Cătălin Iordan
Office hours: Monday: 4:00-6:00pm, Gates 300.
Yuke Zhu
Office hours: Wednesday: 10:30-11:30am, Gates 200 & 6:00-7:00pm, Gates 259.
For questions outside office hours, please use the class forum:
piazza.com/stanford/fall2014/cs131
Class Time and Location:
Lectures: Monday, Wednesday
Final exam: Monday, December 8, 8:30 AM-11:30 AM in McCullough Bldg., Rm. 115 We may have a few sessions
at irregular times; see the Syllabus. Course Description: What do the following technologies
have in common: robots that can navigate space and perform duties,
search engines that can index billions of images and videos, algorithms
that can diagnose medical images for diseases, or smart cars that can
see and drive safely? Lying in the heart of these modern AI
applications are computer vision technologies that can perceive,
understand and reconstruct the complex visual world. Computer Vision is
one of the fastest growing and most exciting AI disciplines in today’s
academia and industry. This course is designed to open the doors for
students who are interested in learning about the fundamental
principles and important applications of computer vision. During the
10-week course, we will introduce a number of fundamental concepts in
computer vision. We will expose students to a number of real-world
applications that are important to our daily lives. More importantly,
we will guide students through a series of well designed projects such
that they will get to implement a few interesting and cutting-edge
computer vision algorithms. Grading Policies: Homework: 80% Final exam: 20% Turning in assignments
Problem
Sets (PS0 - PS4): Give
a paper copy to the TAs in class on the due date, or turn in to the
submission cabinet in the Gates building, near the east entrance,
before 5pm on the due date. You can find a photo of the cabinet here.
Your problem set may be written in any convenient format, as long as
it's clearly legible. Programming
Assignments (PA1 - PA3): You
must use our template for your
writeup. This is to provide
practice for writing technical papers. To submit your PA, send an
email to cs131a2014@gmail.com with these attachments: • your writeup, named
"yourSUNetID_PA1.pdf". We prefer PDF format for your writeup (most editors
can export to PDF). • A zip file containing your MATLAB
code, named "yourSUNetID_PA1_code.zip". No paper submission is required for PAs. Prerequisites
We
hope that you are familiar with:
• Assignment 0: 8%
• Assignment 1a (theoretical): 12%
• Assignment 1b (programming and writeup): 12%
• Assignment 2a (theoretical): 12%
• Assignment 2b (programming and writeup): 12%
• Assignment 3a (theoretical): 12%
• Assignment 3b (programming and writeup): 12%
Using Late Days:
• You have 7 free late days total
• You can use up to 3 late days per assignment. (Homework
will not be accepted more than 3 days late.)
• If you have used all of your late days, there is a 25%
penalty for each day late
•
Explicitly mark the number of late days you use on an assignment if you
are using late days. For example, if you turn it in by 5pm the next
day, write "1 late day." If it's 5:01 pm the next day, write "2 late
days." It is an honor code violation to write down the wrong time. (If
you turn in late and don't write the number of days, we'll round up to
3.)
• College-level calculus (e.g. MATH 19 or 41) - You’ll need
to be able to take a
derivative, and maximize a function by finding where the derivative=0.
• Linear algebra (e.g. MATH 51) - We will use matrix
transpose, inverse, and
other operations to do algebra with matrix expressions. We’ll use
transformation matrices to rotate/transform points, and we’ll use
Singular Value Decomposition. (These topics are important for the
homeworks, but if you are a quick learner you should be able to learn
them during the class if you haven’t yet. We will have review sessions
and provide review materials.)
• Basic
probability and statistics (e.g. CS 109 or other stats course) - You
should understand conditional probability, mean, and variance.
• We
also require a decent amount of programming skills, such as entry-level
Matlab, and the ability to work in the Linux environment. If you are
unsure about your background, we encourage you to try out Problem Set
0, which is a “normalizing” problem set for the class. PS0 will help
you gauge if CS131 is the right level for you.