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Course Objectives

Prerequisites

Approach

Typical Text

Course Objectives
This course explores the current frontier of the field of computer vision. There exist several ways to explore this moving frontier, and different instructors attempt to accomplish it in different ways.

Prerequisites
COMP 775 or permission of instructor.

Approach
Typical approaches used in this course include the following (with mixing and matching, as desired by the instructor):

• Go through a recent conference proceedings discussing papers in an order selected by the instructor to find out what methods are currently in use in the field. Students are assigned to lead discussions of each paper, using review criteria provided by the instructor. This approach emphasizes critical reading and teaches paper-reviewing skills, as well as introducing the material of the papers.

• Explore deeply a particular recent approach to computer vision (1) in class (2) in a reading project (3) in a lab project This approach is used to teach a particular methodology in depth and can be used as an adjunct to research in the field.

• Explore deeply the kinds of difficulties encountered in a particular real computer vision problem. This approach ties the study of computer vision methods to real problems so they can be evaluated critically.

Typical Text
A recent Proceedings or a collection of papers is used as a text.