DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO

CSE 252B: Computer Vision II

Spring 2004

 

Instructor: Serge Belongie, Assistant Professor, AP&M room 4832. Office Hours: MTu 2:00-3:00pm

Note: when emailing the instructor with questions about the class, please put "cse252b" in the subject line or use the following address:
sjb+cse252b cs.ucsd.edu

Class section id for CSE252B: #513471. Lecture: MW 5:00-6:20pm, HSS 2154. Class mailing list: http://graphics.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/cse252b.

Topics to be Covered: Geometric models of image formation. Projective Geometry. Interest point detection. Robust feature matching across wide baselines. Calibrated and uncalibrated reconstruction of 3D models of objects from 2D images. Construction of photo-mosaics. Camera calibration. Optimal camera pose and structure estimation.

Prerequisites: linear algebra, calculus, probability and statistics. This course makes extensive use of Matlab. Click here for information on Matlab.

Here are the Grading and Course Policies and the Scribe Resources.

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Required textbook:

book cover

An Invitation to 3D Vision: From Images to Geometric Models
Ma, Soatto, Kosecka and Sastry
Springer Verlag, 2003
ISBN 0-387-00893-4
(errata as of 22-Mar-04)

Relevant non-required textbooks:
Computer Vision -- A Modern Approach by Forsyth and Ponce
Introductory Techniques for 3-D Computer Vision by Trucco & Verri
Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision by Hartley & Zisserman
The Geometry of Multiple Images by Faugeras, Luong, and Papadopoulo
Vision Science: Photons to Phenomenology by Stephen E. Palmer

Handy Math reference:
MathWorld

Most recently updated on Apr. 5, 2004 by Serge Belongie.