Stanford University

CS 131 Computer Vision: Foundations and Applications

Fall 2015-2016


Lecture TA Session Date
(irregular lectures are highlighted)
Day of the week Module Description Instructor (if not Juan Carlos) Course Materials PS & PA
(All assignments will be due on Fridays)
1 2015.09.22
1:30-02:50pm
McCullough 115
T Introduction Introduction to Computer Vision slides PS0-release
2 2015.09.24 Th Linear Algebra Primer
slides
3 2015.09.29
T Optional MATLAB Tutorial Alan Luo Written MATLAB Intro
MATLAB videos (under section V, "Octave")
Green Screen demo files
4 2015.10.01 Th Pixels, Features, and Cameras Pixels and Filters slides
Forsyth & Ponce:

Ch 7 (Linear Filters)

PS1-release
HW 2015.10.02
10:45am-12pm
Gates 104
F PS0 homework session (optional) Ranjay Krishna Extra office hours for PS0 questions. No new material will be presented. PS0-due 5pm
5 2015.10.06
T Edge detection, RANSAC slides
Forsyth & Ponce:

Ch 8 (Edge Detection), 15.2.2

PA1-release
6 2015.10.08
Th Feature detectors, Harris slides
Szeliski: Ch 4.1.1

7 2015.10.13 T Difference of Gaussians, SIFT slides
David Lowe's SIFT paper
8 2015.10.15 Th Camera 1 slides
Forsyth & Ponce: 

Ch 1-3


Hartley & Zisserman:

Ch. 6

Lecture 2015.10.16
Gates 219
1:00pm-1:40pm
F Panorama Stitching Ranjay Krishna slides
9 2015.10.20 T Camera 2 slides
Hartley & Zisserman: Ch 10
Forsyth & Ponce: 

Ch 10

10 2015.10.22 Th Camera 3 (same slides as above)
HW 2015.10.23
11am-12pm
Gates 104
F PS1 homework session (optional) Alan Luo Extra office hours for PS1 questions. No new material will be presented. PS1-due 5pm 
11 Guest 2015.10.27 T Pose Estimation from Street View Images Amir slides
12 2015.10.29 Th Regions of Images, and Segmentation Basic Concepts of Segmentation slides
Forsyth & Ponce: 

Ch 14.2, 14.4

PS2-release
2015.10.30 F No Class PA1-due 5pm
13 2015.11.03 T K-means Clustering slides
Mean Shift paper
PA2-release
14 2015.11.05 Th Feature tracking slides
Szeliski: Ch 8.4, 8.5
15 2015.11.10 T Figure-ground Segmentation Using Clustering Algorithms Alan Luo slides
16 Guest 2015.11.17 T Visual Tracking Alex Alahi slides
17 2015.11.12 Th Recognizing Faces and Objects Basic Concepts in Recognition, Nearest Neighbor Match slides
18 2015.11.19 Th PCA and Eigenfaces slides
Eigenfaces paper
Fisherfaces paper
PS3-release
HW 2015.11.20
11am-12pm
Gates 104
F PS2 homework session (optional) Alan Luo Extra office hours for PS2 questions. No new material will be presented. PS2-due 5pm
PA2-due 5pm
PA3-release
19 Guest 2015.12.01 T Predicting demographics from 15 million images. Timnit Gebru
HW 2015.12.02
Gates 219, 10:30-11:30am
W PS3 homework session (optional) Ranjay Krishna Extra office hours for PS3 questions. No new material will be presented. Office hours
20 2015.12.03 Th Exam Overview Ranjay Krishna Exam Overview Slides PS3-due 5pm
2015.12.04 F No Class PA3-due 5pm
2015.12.07
3:30pm-6:30pm
Mudd Chemistry Building LEC
M Final Exam

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

Sample Final
(much shorter than the real one!)
Solutions