Instructor:  Yiannis Aloimonos
Teaching Assistant:  Gutemberg Guerra Filho
Lecture: Tu-Th 3:30pm-4:45pm -  CSI 2107
Office Hours: Mo-We 2pm-3pm  - AVW 1151

Course Description: Input, output, and storage of pictorial information. Pictures as information sources, efficient encoding, sampling, quantization, approximation. Position-invariant operations on pictures, digital and optical implementations, the pax language, applications to matched and spatial frequency filtering. Picture quality, image enhancement and image restoration. Picture properties and pictorial pattern recognition. Processing of complex pictures; figure extraction, properties of figures. Data structures for pictures description and manipulation; picture languages. Graphics systems for alphanumeric and other symbols, line drawings of two- and three-dimensional objects, cartoons and movies.

Textbook: R. Hartley and A. Zisserman. Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision. Cambridge University Press, June 2000.

Recommended Books:
    J. Weeks. The Shape of Space. Marcel Dekker, December 2001.
    D. Gans. Transformations and Geometries. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Appleton-Century-Croffs, 1969.
    B. Horn. Robot Vision. The MIT Press. McGraw-Hill Book Company.

Coursework: Coursework will consist of eventual homework and project assignments, and two exams (one midterm and a final). Homework exercises and projects will be made available in the class webpage. You must put your name and student ID in your homework sheet. If you have multiple pages, staple them together, and be sure that your name is on every sheet. The midterm exam will be given during the normal class period. The (tentative) midterm exam date is March 20. The final exam will be on Thursday, May 22 at 10:30am-12:30pm (according to the Spring 2003 Schedule of Classes).

Grading Policy : Final grade will be based on homework assignments, projects, midterm exam, and final exam. Coursework will count towards the final grade according to the following percentages:

    Homeworks                          (25%)
    Projects                                 (25%)
    Midterm Exam                      (25%)
    Final Exam                            (25%)

The midterm exam will be given during the normal class period. The (tentative) midterm exam date is March 20. The final exam will be on Thursday, May 22 at 10:30am.