Summer 2016 Tentative Schedule (subject to change)

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 Topics Notes/Assignment
1
05/16
  1. Mo: Welcome, Introduction, Overview of Class, What is Computional Photography
  2. Mo: Why Study Computational Photography?
  3. We: 1 Example of Computational
  4. Dual Photography explains how computational photography extends the 'old' traditional photography.
  5. First Class Activity (warm-up)
  6. We: Python, OpenCV
  7. We: A1

slides ( pdf )
Georgia Tech Summer Academic Calendar 2016
openCV setup ( readme.txt )
test image:     tutorial/459x600-monalist.PNG

challenge : ( 1024px-Mona_Lisa-shrink.png )

Dual photography ( here )

Some 'activity' information for today ( here )
Class tutorial discussed with extra notes ( here )

Ashish Gupta (TA) Office Hours Fridays (including today)
11AM-1PM CoC Lobby
(we are still working on t-square access, hope to have it later on today)
2
05/23
  1. Digital Image Representation
  2. Point Processes
  3. Blend Modes, and Image Smoothing
  4. We: A2

slides ( pdf)
We (extension) - H1, A1 Due (H is for Homework, A is for Activity)

Suggested Reading: Szelinski Section 3.1 - Point Operators
3
05/30
  1. Linear Filters
  2. Correlations & Cross Correlations.

slides ( pdf )

05.30 Memorial Day School Holiday
We: A2 Due

  • Suggested Reading: Szeliski Section 3.2 - Linear Filtering
4
06/06
  1. Mo: Gradients, Edges
  2. Camera, Pinhole, Optics, Sensors (begin)

slides ( pdf )

Fr: H2 Due Multiplicity
Th: Due - A3 (20-30 minutes in class): (must completed partially in We class for ANY credit)
ac3
5
06/13
  1. Camera, Pinhole, Lenses
  2. We Quiz 1

slides ( pdf ) 6. updated (6/27)

Fr: H3 Due Camera Obscura
6
06/20
  1. Exposure, and Sensor
  2. Pop activity quiz

slides ( pdf ) 7. exposure
slides ( pdf ) 8. sensors

7
A4
06/27
  1. Return Quiz 1
  2. Frequency, Fourier Transforms
  3. Activity 4 : Team Work and DFT(activities will be shorter after this one because of project 2-3), there will still be homework.
  • slides ( pdf ) 9. fourier

  • Read: chapter-12-fourier-series.pdf (here)
  • Play: CP-excel-sine.xlsx (plot 2D sine waves and see the result of combining them)

  • July 1 Project 1 Due.
8
07/04
  1. 4th is a Holiday
  2. Blending

slides ( pdf ) 9. fourier (updated)
slides ( pdf ) 10. blending

Paper 2 has more detail.
Paper 1: Burt and Adelson's Pyramid Paper (here)
Paper 2: A multiresolution spline with application
to image mosaics: blending, and masks ( here ) this one dicusses blending (there is signficant overlap with paper 1). Recommended.
9
07/11
  1. Pyramids, Quiz 2 (short). (7/11)
  2. Cuts, Features
  • slides ( pdf ) 10. blending (updated 7/13)
    slides ( pdf ) 11. features (these will be updated again when we cover the full algorithm of Harris)

  • *Suggested Reading: Szeliski Section 3.5 - Pyramids and wavelets
  • *Seam Carving (wikipedia)
    *Suggested Reading: Szeliski Section 4.1 - Feature Detection: Points & Patches

  • Fr - Project 2: Due 7/18 Monday.
10
[H5]
07/18
  1. Mo: SIFT, Image Tranformations.
  2. We: Quiz 3 (short, **beginning of class ).
  3. We: Morphing
  • Suggested Reading: Szelinski Section 2.1.1 & 2.1.2 - 2D Transformations, and Szelinsky Section 3.6.2 Mesh-based warping
11
[H6]
07/25
  1. Mo: Morphing - Tu: Last instructional day (summer term) (return scores for quizzes ). Discuss optional assignments.
  2. We: Reading Day.
  3. HW 6 is (on slides, you can select 1 of three or propose your own).
  4. Fr: 7/29 Final Exam (final project due) (here)

slides ( pdf ) 12. transformations

transformations.zip ( here )

Suggested Reading: Szelinski Chapter 9: Image Stitching

Final Instructional days of term July 25 - July 26 (no exams or quizzes)
Mo - Project 3: due final exam day.
 
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13
  1. (12) Fr: 8/5 last day of final exam conflict period
  2. (13) Mo: 8/8 Grades due at noon. (grades available 8/9 after 6 PM)