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Tracking and Detection in Computer Vision - Winter Term 2013/14

Administrative Info

Lecture by Dr. Slobodan Ilic
Exercises by: Vasilis Belagiannis, David Tan, Paul Huang, Wadim Kehl

Type: Lecture Module IN2210
Programs: Informatics (Bachelor, Master)
Biomedical Computing (Master)
Robotics, Cognition, Intelligence(Master)
SWS: 2+2
ECTS: 5 Credits
Course Language: English

Time, Location & Requirements

Lectures: Monday 12:20h - 14:00h Media Raum MI 00.13.009A

Exercises: Thursday 12:00h - 14:00h Media Raum MI 00.13.009A

Consultation hours: Monday 14:00h - 16:00h Office of the responsible tutor(see names next to the exercise). To get an a slot for consultation send an e-mail to tdcv.tum@gmail.com latest on Sunday before the consultation hours.

Requirements:

  • The classes and exams are in English.
  • For the midterm exam, nothing but your pens and your calculators are allowed.
  • For the final exam, nothing but your pens, your calculators and one DIN A4 page (handwritten, front and back side) with notes are allowed.
  • Bonus points can be earned from the homework projects and the intermediate exam.
  • The final exam brings maximally 100 points. You need to have 40 points in order to pass it. Bonus points are irrelevant for the 40-points-hurdle and are added afterwards to your final exam score.
  • There is no repetition exam.

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Announcements

FINAL GRADES: link

The exam inspection (possibility to look into your exam correction) will take place on Monday, 24.03., at 11:00-12:00 in the CAMP seminar room MI 03.13.010.

For all questions please send e-mails to: tdcv.tum@gmail.com. E-mails sent directly to tutors and professors will not be answered.

Exercises

The exercises will be done in MATLAB and students are expected to do them on their own computer/laptop. In case you do not have your own laptop please let us know by sending an e-mail to: tdcv.tum@gmail.com.

You can also find a short MATLAB tutorial here.

Registration

You are required to register via TUMOnline (link)!

Homeworks

Students will be given one week to solve the problems. The exact due dates for each homework are announced next to the exercises on this website and will be mentioned during the exercise sessions. Students have to make groups of four and send the names to tdcv.tum@gmail.com until 25th of October. After that, those who didn't create groups will be associated to groups based on a random selection and will receive a notification about this.

During the checking of the exercises each group will have 5 minutes to answer questions. All members of the group will be questioned about the algorithms and their implementation, so only those who can prove that they understood both theory and practice will get the respective points. Thus, having a working exercise doesn't mean that everyone in the group is going to get full points. Please note that only exercises which work might get the maximal number of points. There will be no "debugging-correcting"-sessions for your solutions during the exercise reviews! If you have questions, ask them beforehand by either mail or in person.

All homework should be submitted through e-mail at least one hour before the exercise session (11:00AM) with the following format and information.

  1. To: tdcv.tum@gmail.com
  2. Subject: [TDCV13] Exer<exercise number> - <last names of all members> - GROUP_{number of the group};
    For example: [TDCV13] Exer1 - Belagiannis, Huang, Kehl, Tan - Group10
  3. Attachment: The whole source code for this homework.
  4. Body: This should include the (a) full names and Matrikel-Nr. of each member; and, (b) reference to any code used in the homework that is not specified on the exercise sheet or by the tutors.

Overview

Computer Vision, as a relatively young research area, has emerged as a key discipline in computer science. This is not only evident by a growing and highly competitive research community with a high impact factor in computer science, but also by the emergence of numerous vision companies turning research ideas into a myriad of commercial applications. Besides well-known studies of 3D geometry and camera models, object tracking and detection in images and videos becomes one of the principal research directions of modern Computer Vision. The main objective of this course is to provide students with a gradual introduction to modern tracking, detection and recognition techniques developed in the last years. The course will provide in-depth knowledge of image features, their detection and description, matching techniques, key-point recognition, basic and advanced tracking algorithms based on image features and image intensities, basics of structure from motion and bundle adjustment, synchronous localization and mapping algorithms as well as object detection using classification approaches. In the end, the students will have a thorough description of the most important tracking and detection techniques. They should be able to understand and implement those solutions and apply them in reasonably complex problems. The concepts described in this course will be accompanied with brief explanations of the necessary mathematical tools. The participants of this course will be given an important basis to follow the vast and growing Computer Vision literature and use the acquired knowledge to solve new practical problems.

Who should attend this course?

Bachelor students in their last years and all Master students that are interested in learning about the modern and well-established concepts and algorithms related to tracking, detection and recognition in Computer Vision, or desire to use those techniques in their research.

Prerequisites: Most of the knowledge required should be part of the normal background in Computer Science, undergraduate/graduate Mathematics and Geometry.


Textbooks

For some basic concepts the textbook "Computer Vision: a modern approach" by David Forsyth and Jean Ponce can be used. Also, most topics can be found in a new book of Rick Szeliski from Microsoft Research, available also on-line. However, since the majority of the topics is state-of-the-art, students will be referred to the relevant publications which will be provided during the course and can be regarded as additional lecture notes.

Lecture Schedule and Content

Date Topic Conducted by Material/Literature
Mon, Oct 21 Introduction Dr. S. Ilic
Mon, Oct 28 Convolution, Non-linear filtering, Gaussian Filtering, Image Derivatives, Edge Detection Dr. S. Ilic
Mon, Nov 4 Local invariant feature detectors: Harris corner, Harris Laplace/Affine, Hessian, Hessian-Laplace/Affine Dr. S. Ilic
Mon, Nov 11 Feature descriptors: Difference of Gaussians and SIFT, Integral images and SURF, Histogram of Oriented Gradients Dr. S. Ilic
Mon, Nov 18 Keypoint recognition: Randomized trees, FERNS, Keypoint signatures Dr. S. Ilic
Mon, Nov 25 Haar features, Ada-boost, Viola-Jones Face Detection Dr. S. Ilic
Mon, Dec 2 Camera models and projections, Model based tracking, Pose estimation from 2D-3D coresspondencies (DLT, P-n-P), Rotation parametrization Dr. S. Ilic
Mon, Dec 9 Non-linear optimization, Robust estimators, RANSAC Dr. S. Ilic
Mon, Dec 16 Template tracking methods: Lucas-Kanade, Compositional Alg., Inverse Compositional, ESM, Linear Predictor Dr. S. Ilic
Mon, Jan 13 Mean-shift tracking Dr. S. Ilic
Mon, Jan 20,27 Template matching approaches Dr. S. Ilic
Mon, Feb 3 Summary Dr. S. Ilic

Exercise Schedule

Date Topic Conducted by Material/Literature
Thu, Oct 24 Matlab Introduction/Convolution, Gaussian Filtering, Image Derivatives (due to Oct 31) Vasilis Belangianis, David Tan ---
Thu, Oct 31 Median and Bilateral Filtering (due on Nov 7) Paul Huang
Thu, Nov 7 Harris, Harris-Laplace (due on Nov 14) Vasilis Belagiannis
Thu, Nov 14 Sift, Dlt, Ransac, Image Stiching (due on Nov 21) Wadim Kehl
Thu, Nov 21 Ferns (due on Nov 28) Vasilis Belagiannis
Thu, Nov 28 Ada-boost classification (due on Dec 9) Fausto Milletari
Thu, Dec 5 Mid term 18:00 - 19:45 in MW0001 room  
Thu, Dec 12 Non-linear optimization (due on Dec 19) Paul Huang
Thu, Dec 19 Template Tracking with Linear Predictor (due on Jan 16) Fausto Milletari
Thu, Jan 16 Mean-shift Tracking (due on Jan 23) David Tan
Thu, Jan 23 Template matching(due on Jan 30) Wadim Kehl
Thu, Jan 30 Kalman/Particle filter tracking (-) No Exercise  
Thu, Feb 6 Dictionary learning approaches (-) No Exercise  
Thu, Feb 13 Checking dictionary learning    
Sat, Feb 14 Final exam    

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Title: Tracking and Detection in Computer Vision
Professor: Dr. Slobodan Ilic
Tutors: Vasilis Belagiannis, David Tan, Chun-Hao Paul Huang , Wadim Kehl
Type: Lecture
Information: 2+2 SWS, 5 ECTS, Wahlfach im Masterstudiengang Informatik, Wahlfach im Masterstudiengang Biomedical Computing, Wahlfach im Masterstudiengang Robotics, Cognition, Intelligence
Term: 2013WiSe
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