CMSC 426 - Computer Vision



Section 0101:

This course provides an introduction to computer vision and computational photography. The course will cover basic principles of image processing, image recognition using both classical methods and deep learning, and multiple view geometry for visual navigation. It will explore the topics of image formation, image features, image stitching, image and video segmentation, motion estimation, tracking, and object and scene recognition.

The course is organized around several projects. Through these projects you will learn the theory and practical skills required to obtain a computer vision engineering job.

Links to the lecture slides can be found on ELMS .

Course Information

All concepts will be covered during in class lecture. However, we also recommend the following books as good references:

  • Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications, Richard Szeliski, Springer, 2020 Online version
  • Computer Vision: A Modern Approach: D. Forsythe and J. Ponce, Prentice-Hall, 2003 (available online)
  • Digital Image Processing, Prentice Hall, Rafael Gonzalez, and Richard Woods, 2008.
  • Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision, Cambridge University Press, Richard Hartley, and Andrew Zisserman, 2003.

Schedule and Readings

Important Dates:


  • Midterm Exam: Thursday, Mar. 28 in class
  • Final Project Due: Tuesday, May 14 at 1:30 PM (ET)

Lectures (Tentative Schedule)


Staff

Instructor: Jia-Bin Huang (jbhuang at umd.edu)

Office: IRB 4234
Office Hours: By appointment using this link


Teaching Assistants



Name Email Office hours
Yiran Xu (on Zoom) yiranx at umd.edu Mon. 11am - 12pm
Ji-Ze Genevieve Jang gjang at umd.edu Tue. 2pm - 3pm
Yao-Chih Lee yclee at umd.edu Wed. 2pm - 3pm
Ting-Hsuan Liao ting1129 at umd.edu Thu. 2pm - 3pm


Office hour location is AVW 4140. Or may become remote over zoom (we will announce on Piazza).

Class Resources

Online Course Tools
  • ELMS - This is where you can find links to Zoom lectures, find recorded lectures, and see final grades.
  • Piazza - This is the place for class discussions. Please do not post homework/project solutions here.
  • GradeScope - This is the place for submitting you assignments.


Background Material
The following web pages provide some background and other helpful information.


Homeworks and Programming Assigments

Posted homeworks and programming assignments can be found on ELMS.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Ioannis Gkioulekas, Mohammad Teli, Richard Baraniuk, Ashok Veeraraghavan, David Jacobs, Kaushik Mitra, and Chris Metzler who provided most of the slides, assignments, and material that serve as the basis for this course.