September 12
                    
Lecture 1: Course Introduction
                    
Lecture 2: kNN classifier
September 19
                    
Lecture 3: A few Computer Vision Concepts
                    
Lecture 4: Image Representations
                    
Lecture 4: Curse of Dimensionality
September 26
                    
Paper Discussion:
                    
"Recognizing Action at a Distance"
                    
"80 million tiny images: a large dataset for non-parametric object and scene recognition"
October 3
                    
Lecture 6: Linear and Generalized Linear Classifiers
October 10
                    
NO LECTURE due to ECCV 2012
October 17
                    
Paper Discussion:
                    
"Object Recognition with Informative Features and Linear Classification"
                    
"Learning a Classification Model for Segmentation" Video lecture
October 24
                    
Lecture 7: Support Vector Machines
October 31
                    
Paper Discussion:
                    
"Histograms of Oriented Gradients for Human Detection"
                    
"Beyond Bags of Features: Spatial Pyramid Matching
for Recognizing Natural Scene Categories"
November 7
                    
Lecture 8: Bagging and Boosting
November 14
                    
Paper Discussion:
                    
"Rapid Object Detection using a Boosted Cascade of Simple Features"
                    
"Detecting Pedestrians Using Patterns of Motion and Appearance"
November 21
                    
Lecture 9: Cross Validation
                    
Lecture 10: Neural Networks
November 28
                    
Finish Lecture 10
                    
Paper Discussion:
                    
"Image denoising: Can plain Neural Networks compete with BM3D?"
                    
Lecture 11: Unsupervised Learning
December 5
                    
Finish Lecture 11
                    
Paper Discussion:
                    
"Discovering objects and their location in images"
December 11
                    
Student paper presentations from 1:30 to 4 in MC 316
                    
List of Students Presenting
December 13
                    
Student paper presentations from 1:30 to 4 in MC 320
                    
List of Students Presenting
January 9
                    
Student final project presentations from 1:30 to 3:30 in MC 316
                    
List of Students Presenting
January 11
                    
Student final project presentations from 10:30 to 12:30 in MC 300
                    
List of Students Presenting
January 14
                    
Student final project presentations from 1:30 to 3:30 in MC 316
                    
List of Students Presenting