CS484 Image Analysis (Spring 2017)

Instructor:	Gokberk Cinbis (Room: EA-431)
Instructor office hour:	Mon 10:40-11:30
TA:	Mert Bulent Sariyildiz (mert.sariyildiz [at] bilkent.edu.tr)
TA office hour:	Thu 09:00-10:00
Syllabus:	Please read the syllabus for course details.
	The course is based on the structure and contents of the previous offerings by Assoc. Prof. Selim Aksoy.

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Lectures

Topics	Contents
Introduction Feb 8 [ ]	Topics: Overview Example applications Demos: "Sentioscope soccer player tracking" (local copy), by Sermetcan Baysal Google Cloud Vision API Microsoft Computer Vision API Microsoft computer vision research blog and demos Clarifai demo Imagga auto-tagging demo
Digital Image Fundamentals Feb 13 & 15 [ Slides ]	Topics: Acquisition, sampling, quantization Image enhancement Image formats Linear algebra and MATLAB review Readings: SS Ch 1, 2 GW Ch 1, 2, 3.1-3.4 References: R. C. Gonzales, R. E. Woods, "Review material and slides on linear algebra, probability, and linear systems," 2002. Software: Matlab code examples for processing images Matlab code examples for histogram enhancement
Binary Image Analysis Feb 15 & 20 [ Slides: \| Part 2 ]	Topics: Pixels and neighborhoods Mathematical morphology Connected components analysis Automatic thresholding Readings: SS Ch 3.1-3.5, 3.8 GW Ch 2.5, 9.1-9.5, 10.3 References: M. Sezgin, B. Sankur, "Survey Over Image Thresholding Techniques and Quantitative Performance Evaluation" (local copy), Journal of Electronic Imaging, 13(1):146-165, January 2004. Software: Matlab code examples for binary image analysis Mathematical morphology demos
Filtering [ Slides: \| ]	Topics: Spatial domain filtering Frequency domain filtering Image enhancement Readings: SS Ch 5.1-5.5, 5.10-5.11 GW Ch 3.5-3.8, 4 Software: Matlab code examples for filtering
Edge Detection [ ]	Topics: Edges, lines, arcs Hough transform Readings: SS Ch 5.6-5.8, 10.3-10.4 GW Ch 10.1-10.2 References: A. Fitzgibbon, M. Pilu, R. B. Fisher, "Direct Least Square Fitting of Ellipses" (local copy), IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 21(5):476-480, May 1999. Y. Li, L. G. Shapiro, "Object Recognition for Content-Based Image Retrieval" (local copy), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2004. S. Kiranyaz, M. Ferreira, M. Gabbouj, "Automatic Object Extraction Over Multiscale Edge Field for Multimedia Retrieval" (local copy), IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, 15(12):3759-3772, December 2006. M. S. Costa, L. G. Shapiro, "3D Object Recognition and Pose with Relational Indexing" (local copy), Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 79(3):364-407, September 2000. Software: Edge detection demo by Yi Li Line and arc finding demo by Yi Li Building recognition demo by Yi Li
Local Feature Detectors [ ]	Topics: Corners and other interest points Invariants References: C. Schmid, R. Mohr, C. Bauckhage, "Evaluation of Interest Point Detectors" (local copy), International Journal of Computer Vision, 37(2):151-172, June 2000. K. Mikolajczyk, C. Schmid, "Scale & Affine Invariant Interest Point Detectors" (local copy), International Journal of Computer Vision, 60(1):63-86, October 2004. D. G. Lowe, "Distinctive Image Features From Scale-Invariant Keypoints" (local copy), International Journal of Computer Vision, 60(2):91-110, November 2004. K. Mikolajczyk, C. Schmid, "A Performance Evaluation of Local Descriptors" (local copy), IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 27(10):1615-1630, October 2005. K. Mikolajczyk, T. Tuytelaars, C. Schmid, A. Zisserman, J. Matas, F. Schaffalitzky, T. Kadir, L. Van Gool, "A Comparison of Affine Region Detectors" (local copy), International Journal of Computer Vision, 65(1-2):43-72, November 2005. Local invariant features tutorial by Schmid and Lowe at CVPR 2003 N. Snavely, S. M. Seitz, R. Szeliski, "Photo tourism: Exploring photo collections in 3D" (local copy, web page), ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Proceedings), 25(3):835-846, 2006. I. Simon, N. Snavely, S. M. Seitz, "Scene Summarization for Online Image Collections" (local copy, web page), IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, October 14-20, 2007. Software: Affine covariant features by University of Oxford SIFT keypoint detector by David Lowe Affine interest point detectors by INRIA Rhone-Alpes Affine invariant region detector by Timor Kadir VLFeat open source library Aperture problem demonstration
Color Image Processing [ ]	Topics: Color spaces and conversions Readings: SS Ch 6.1-6.5 GW Ch 6
Texture Analysis [ ]	Topics: Statistical approaches Structural approaches Readings: SS Ch 7 GW Sec 11.3.3
Image Segmentation [ ]	Topics: Histogram-based approaches Clustering-based approaches Region growing Split-and-merge Morphological approaches Graph-based approaches Readings: SS Ch 10.1 GW Ch 10.4-10.5 References: J. Shi, J. Malik, "Normalized Cuts and Image Segmentation" (local copy), IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 22(8):888-905, August 2000. C. Carson, S. Belongie, H. Greenspan, J. Malik, "Blobworld: Image Segmentation Using Expectation-Maximization and Its Applications to Image Querying" (local copy), IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 24(8):1026-1038, August 2002. Y. Deng, B. S. Manjunath, "Unsupervised Segmentation of Color-Texture Regions in Images and Video" (local copy), IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 23(8):800-810, August 2001. P. Soundararajan, S. Sarkar, "An In-Depth Study of Graph Partitioning Measures for Perceptual Organization" (local copy), IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 25(6):642-660, June 2003. Image segmentation research at UC Santa Barbara Graph-based image segmentation tutorial by Shi, Fowlkes, Martin, Sharon at CVPR 2004 L. Vincent, P. Soille, "Watersheds in Digital Spaces: An Efficient Algorithm Based on Immersion Simulations" (local copy), IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 13(6):583-598, June 1991. C. Vachier, F. Meyer, "The Viscous Watershed Transform" (local copy), Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, 22(2-3):251-267, 2005. B. E. Bejnordi, G. Litjens, M. Hermsen, N. Karssemeijer, J. A. W. M. van der Laak, "A multi-scale superpixel classification approach to the detection of regions of interest in whole slide histopathology images" (local copy), SPIE Medical Imaging Symposium, Digital Pathology Conference, 2015. R. Achanta, A. Shaji, K. Smith, A. Lucchi, P. Fua, S. Susstrunk, "SLIC Superpixels Compared to State-of-the-art Superpixel Methods" (local copy), IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 34(11):2274-2282, May 2012. Y. Y. Boykov, M.-P. Jolly, "Interactive graph cuts for optimal boundary & region segmentation of objects in N-D images" (local copy), 8th International Conference on Computer Vision, 1:105-112, July 2001. Y. Boykov, G. Funka-Lea, "Graph cuts and efficient N-D image segmentation" (local copy), International Journal of Computer Vision, 70(2):109-131, November 2006. Software: Berkeley segmentation engine Normalized cuts segmentation by Jianbo Shi JSEG: segmentation of color-texture regions by UC Santa Barbara Edgeflow segmentation by UC Santa Barbara Graph cut segmentation by Yuri Boykov
Representation and Description [ ]	Topics: Image representations and descriptors Region representations and descriptors Readings: SS Ch 10.2, 3.7 GW Ch 11 References: D. Zhang, G. Lu, "Review of Shape Representation and Description Techniques" (local copy), Pattern Recognition, 37(1):1-19, January 2004.
Pattern Recognition Overview [ Slides: Part 1 \| Part 2 ]	Topics: Brief introduction to pattern recognition Readings: SS Ch 4 GW Ch 12.1-12.2 References: A. K. Jain, R. P. W. Duin, J. Mao, "Statistical Pattern Recognition: A Review" (local copy), IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 22(1):4-37, January 2000. Software: K-means clustering demo by Yi Li
Case Studies [ Slides: \| Part 2 \| Part 3 (with kind permission from Prof. Linda Shapiro) ]	Topics: Image classification Object recognition Image retrieval References: Y. Liu, D. Zhang, G. Lu, W.-Y. Ma, "A Survey of Content-Based Image Retrieval with High-Level Semantics" (local copy), Pattern Recognition, 40(1):262-282, January 2007. X. S. Zhou, T. S. Huang, "Relevance Feedback in Image Retrieval: A Comprehensive Review" (local copy), Multimedia Systems, 8(6):536-544, April 2003. S. Antani, R. Kasturi, R. Jain, "A Survey on the Use of Pattern Recognition Methods for Abstraction, Indexing and Retrieval of Images and Video" (local copy), Pattern Recognition, 35(4):945-965, April 2002. A. W. M. Smeulders, M. Worring, S. Santini, A. Gupta, R. Jain, "Content-Based Image Retrieval at the End of the Early Years" (local copy), IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 22(12):1349-1380, December 2000. Y. Rui, T. S. Huang, S.-F. Chang, "Image Retrieval: Current Techniques, Promising Directions, and Open Issues" (local copy), Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 10(1):39-62, March 1999. Y. Rubner, C. Tomasi, L. J. Guibas, "The Earth Mover's Distance as a Metric for Image Retrieval" (local copy), International Journal of Computer Vision, 40(2):99-121, November 2000. A. Vailaya, M. A. T. Figueiredo, A. K. Jain, H.-J. Zhang, "Image Classification for Content-Based Indexing" (local copy), IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, 10(1):117-130, January 2001. L. Fei-Fei, P. Perona, "A Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Learning Natural Scene Categories" (local copy), IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2:524-531, June 20-25, 2005. P. Quelhas, F. Monay, J.-M. Odobez, D. Gatica-Perez, T. Tuytelaars, "A Thousand Words in a Scene" (local copy), IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 29(9):1575-1589, September 2007. D. Gokalp, S. Aksoy, "Scene Classification Using Bag-of-Regions Representations", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Beyond Patches Workshop, June 23, 2007. M. R. Boutell, J. Luo, C. M. Brown, "Factor Graphs for Region-Based Whole-Scene Classification" (local copy), IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Workshop on Semantic Learning Applications in Multimedia, June 17, 2006. Y. Li, J. A. Bilmes, L. G. Shapiro, "Object Class Recognition using Images of Abstract Regions" (local copy), IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 1:40-43, August 23-26, 2004. Y. Li, L. G. Shapiro, J. A. Bilmes, "A Generative/Discriminative Learning Algorithm for Image Classification" (local copy), IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, 2:1605-1612, October 17-21, 2005. J. Xiao, J. Hays, K. Ehinger, A. Oliva, A. Torralba, "SUN Database: Exploring a Large Collection of Scene Categories" (local copy), International Journal of Computer Vision, 2014. G. Patterson, C. Xu, H. Su, J. Hayes, "The SUN Attribute Database: Beyond Categories for Deeper Scene Understanding" (local copy), International Journal of Computer Vision, 108(1):59-81, May 2014. B. Zhou, A. Lapedriza, J. Xiao, A. Torralba, A. Oliva, "Learning Deep Features for Scene Recognition using Places Database" (local copy), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2014. Recognizing and learning object categories tutorial by Fei-Fei, Fergus and Torralba at ICCV 2009 Visual object recognition tutorial by Leibe and Grauman at AAAI 2008 (local copy) N. Dalal, B. Triggs, "Histograms of oriented gradients for human detection", (local copy), IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1:886-893, June 20-25, 2005. P. F. Felzenszwalb, R. B. Girshick, D. McAllester, D. Ramanan, "Object Detection with Discriminatively Trained Part-Based Models", (local copy), IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 32(9):1627-1645, September 2010. A. Krizhevsky, I. Sutskever, and G. Hinton, "ImageNet classification with deep convolutional neural networks", (local copy), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 1106-1114, 2012. R. Girshick, J. Donahue, T. Darrell, J. Malik, "Rich Feature Hierarchies for Accurate Object Detection and Semantic Segmentation", (local copy), (arXiv version), IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 580-587, June 23-28, 2014. K. Simonyan, A. Zisserman, "Very Deep Convolutional Networks for Large-Scale Image Recognition", (local copy), International Conference on Learning Representations, 2015. R. Girshick, J. Donahue, T. Darrell, J. Malik, "Region-Based Convolutional Networks for Accurate Object Detection and Segmentation", (local copy), IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 38(1):142-158, January 2016. Evaluation of feature encoding methods LabelMe database Scene UNderstanding (SUN) database Places database Interactive visualization of deep networks: Places-CNN, ImageNet-CNN

Topics

A. Fitzgibbon, M. Pilu, R. B. Fisher, "Direct Least Square Fitting of Ellipses" (local copy), IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 21(5):476-480, May 1999.
Y. Li, L. G. Shapiro, "Object Recognition for Content-Based Image Retrieval" (local copy), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2004.
S. Kiranyaz, M. Ferreira, M. Gabbouj, "Automatic Object Extraction Over Multiscale Edge Field for Multimedia Retrieval" (local copy), IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, 15(12):3759-3772, December 2006.
M. S. Costa, L. G. Shapiro, "3D Object Recognition and Pose with Relational Indexing" (local copy), Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 79(3):364-407, September 2000.

Software:

Local Feature Detectors

[ ]

Topics:

Corners and other interest points
Invariants

References:

C. Schmid, R. Mohr, C. Bauckhage, "Evaluation of Interest Point Detectors" (local copy), International Journal of Computer Vision, 37(2):151-172, June 2000.
K. Mikolajczyk, C. Schmid, "Scale & Affine Invariant Interest Point Detectors" (local copy), International Journal of Computer Vision, 60(1):63-86, October 2004.
D. G. Lowe, "Distinctive Image Features From Scale-Invariant Keypoints" (local copy), International Journal of Computer Vision, 60(2):91-110, November 2004.
K. Mikolajczyk, C. Schmid, "A Performance Evaluation of Local Descriptors" (local copy), IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 27(10):1615-1630, October 2005.
K. Mikolajczyk, T. Tuytelaars, C. Schmid, A. Zisserman, J. Matas, F. Schaffalitzky, T. Kadir, L. Van Gool, "A Comparison of Affine Region Detectors" (local copy), International Journal of Computer Vision, 65(1-2):43-72, November 2005.
Local invariant features tutorial by Schmid and Lowe at CVPR 2003
N. Snavely, S. M. Seitz, R. Szeliski, "Photo tourism: Exploring photo collections in 3D" (local copy, web page), ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Proceedings), 25(3):835-846, 2006.
I. Simon, N. Snavely, S. M. Seitz, "Scene Summarization for Online Image Collections" (local copy, web page), IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, October 14-20, 2007.

Software:

Color Image Processing

[ ]

Topics:

Color spaces and conversions

Readings:

SS Ch 6.1-6.5
GW Ch 6

Texture Analysis

[ ]

Topics:

Statistical approaches
Structural approaches

Readings:

SS Ch 7
GW Sec 11.3.3

Image Segmentation

[ ]

Topics:

Histogram-based approaches
Clustering-based approaches
Region growing
Split-and-merge
Morphological approaches
Graph-based approaches

Readings:

SS Ch 10.1
GW Ch 10.4-10.5

References:

J. Shi, J. Malik, "Normalized Cuts and Image Segmentation" (local copy), IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 22(8):888-905, August 2000.
C. Carson, S. Belongie, H. Greenspan, J. Malik, "Blobworld: Image Segmentation Using Expectation-Maximization and Its Applications to Image Querying" (local copy), IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 24(8):1026-1038, August 2002.
Y. Deng, B. S. Manjunath, "Unsupervised Segmentation of Color-Texture Regions in Images and Video" (local copy), IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 23(8):800-810, August 2001.
P. Soundararajan, S. Sarkar, "An In-Depth Study of Graph Partitioning Measures for Perceptual Organization" (local copy), IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 25(6):642-660, June 2003.
Image segmentation research at UC Santa Barbara
Graph-based image segmentation tutorial by Shi, Fowlkes, Martin, Sharon at CVPR 2004
L. Vincent, P. Soille, "Watersheds in Digital Spaces: An Efficient Algorithm Based on Immersion Simulations" (local copy), IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 13(6):583-598, June 1991.
C. Vachier, F. Meyer, "The Viscous Watershed Transform" (local copy), Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, 22(2-3):251-267, 2005.
B. E. Bejnordi, G. Litjens, M. Hermsen, N. Karssemeijer, J. A. W. M. van der Laak, "A multi-scale superpixel classification approach to the detection of regions of interest in whole slide histopathology images" (local copy), SPIE Medical Imaging Symposium, Digital Pathology Conference, 2015.
R. Achanta, A. Shaji, K. Smith, A. Lucchi, P. Fua, S. Susstrunk, "SLIC Superpixels Compared to State-of-the-art Superpixel Methods" (local copy), IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 34(11):2274-2282, May 2012.
Y. Y. Boykov, M.-P. Jolly, "Interactive graph cuts for optimal boundary & region segmentation of objects in N-D images" (local copy), 8th International Conference on Computer Vision, 1:105-112, July 2001.
Y. Boykov, G. Funka-Lea, "Graph cuts and efficient N-D image segmentation" (local copy), International Journal of Computer Vision, 70(2):109-131, November 2006.

Software:

Representation and Description

[ ]

Topics:

Image representations and descriptors
Region representations and descriptors

Readings:

SS Ch 10.2, 3.7
GW Ch 11

References:

D. Zhang, G. Lu, "Review of Shape Representation and Description Techniques" (local copy), Pattern Recognition, 37(1):1-19, January 2004.

Pattern Recognition Overview

[ Slides: Part 1 | Part 2 ]

Topics:

Brief introduction to pattern recognition

Readings:

SS Ch 4
GW Ch 12.1-12.2

References:

A. K. Jain, R. P. W. Duin, J. Mao, "Statistical Pattern Recognition: A Review" (local copy), IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 22(1):4-37, January 2000.

Software:

K-means clustering demo by Yi Li

Case Studies

[ Slides: | Part 2 | Part 3 (with kind permission from Prof. Linda Shapiro) ]

Topics:

Image classification
Object recognition
Image retrieval

References:

Y. Liu, D. Zhang, G. Lu, W.-Y. Ma, "A Survey of Content-Based Image Retrieval with High-Level Semantics" (local copy), Pattern Recognition, 40(1):262-282, January 2007.
X. S. Zhou, T. S. Huang, "Relevance Feedback in Image Retrieval: A Comprehensive Review" (local copy), Multimedia Systems, 8(6):536-544, April 2003.
S. Antani, R. Kasturi, R. Jain, "A Survey on the Use of Pattern Recognition Methods for Abstraction, Indexing and Retrieval of Images and Video" (local copy), Pattern Recognition, 35(4):945-965, April 2002.
A. W. M. Smeulders, M. Worring, S. Santini, A. Gupta, R. Jain, "Content-Based Image Retrieval at the End of the Early Years" (local copy), IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 22(12):1349-1380, December 2000.
Y. Rui, T. S. Huang, S.-F. Chang, "Image Retrieval: Current Techniques, Promising Directions, and Open Issues" (local copy), Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 10(1):39-62, March 1999.
Y. Rubner, C. Tomasi, L. J. Guibas, "The Earth Mover's Distance as a Metric for Image Retrieval" (local copy), International Journal of Computer Vision, 40(2):99-121, November 2000.
A. Vailaya, M. A. T. Figueiredo, A. K. Jain, H.-J. Zhang, "Image Classification for Content-Based Indexing" (local copy), IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, 10(1):117-130, January 2001.
L. Fei-Fei, P. Perona, "A Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Learning Natural Scene Categories" (local copy), IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2:524-531, June 20-25, 2005.
P. Quelhas, F. Monay, J.-M. Odobez, D. Gatica-Perez, T. Tuytelaars, "A Thousand Words in a Scene" (local copy), IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 29(9):1575-1589, September 2007.
D. Gokalp, S. Aksoy, "Scene Classification Using Bag-of-Regions Representations", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Beyond Patches Workshop, June 23, 2007.
M. R. Boutell, J. Luo, C. M. Brown, "Factor Graphs for Region-Based Whole-Scene Classification" (local copy), IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Workshop on Semantic Learning Applications in Multimedia, June 17, 2006.
Y. Li, J. A. Bilmes, L. G. Shapiro, "Object Class Recognition using Images of Abstract Regions" (local copy), IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 1:40-43, August 23-26, 2004.
Y. Li, L. G. Shapiro, J. A. Bilmes, "A Generative/Discriminative Learning Algorithm for Image Classification" (local copy), IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, 2:1605-1612, October 17-21, 2005.
J. Xiao, J. Hays, K. Ehinger, A. Oliva, A. Torralba, "SUN Database: Exploring a Large Collection of Scene Categories" (local copy), International Journal of Computer Vision, 2014.
G. Patterson, C. Xu, H. Su, J. Hayes, "The SUN Attribute Database: Beyond Categories for Deeper Scene Understanding" (local copy), International Journal of Computer Vision, 108(1):59-81, May 2014.
B. Zhou, A. Lapedriza, J. Xiao, A. Torralba, A. Oliva, "Learning Deep Features for Scene Recognition using Places Database" (local copy), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2014.
Recognizing and learning object categories tutorial by Fei-Fei, Fergus and Torralba at ICCV 2009
Visual object recognition tutorial by Leibe and Grauman at AAAI 2008 (local copy)
N. Dalal, B. Triggs, "Histograms of oriented gradients for human detection", (local copy), IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1:886-893, June 20-25, 2005.
P. F. Felzenszwalb, R. B. Girshick, D. McAllester, D. Ramanan, "Object Detection with Discriminatively Trained Part-Based Models", (local copy), IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 32(9):1627-1645, September 2010.
A. Krizhevsky, I. Sutskever, and G. Hinton, "ImageNet classification with deep convolutional neural networks", (local copy), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 1106-1114, 2012.
R. Girshick, J. Donahue, T. Darrell, J. Malik, "Rich Feature Hierarchies for Accurate Object Detection and Semantic Segmentation", (local copy), (arXiv version), IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 580-587, June 23-28, 2014.
K. Simonyan, A. Zisserman, "Very Deep Convolutional Networks for Large-Scale Image Recognition", (local copy), International Conference on Learning Representations, 2015.
R. Girshick, J. Donahue, T. Darrell, J. Malik, "Region-Based Convolutional Networks for Accurate Object Detection and Segmentation", (local copy), IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 38(1):142-158, January 2016.
Evaluation of feature encoding methods
LabelMe database
Scene UNderstanding (SUN) database
Places database
Interactive visualization of deep networks: Places-CNN, ImageNet-CNN

Exams

In exams, only printouts of course slides are allowed.

Midterm I: March 22, 2017, 10:40-12:30, EB-204 (in class hours). Grades.
Midterm II: April 19, 2017, 10:40-12:30, EB-204 (in class hours).

Homework

Homework 1: Binary image analysis. Due: March, 15, 2017, 23:50.
Homework 2: Fourier transform and template matching. Due: April 7, 2017, 23:50.
Homework 3: Image segmentation. Due: April, 24, 2017, 23:50.

Online submission: For homework submissions, please use the corresponding unit in CS484 Moodle site.

Project

Project details will be announced later.
The final report (only pdf is accepted) and source code files (zip) are due 23:50 on May 22, 2017.
Please use the CS484 Moodle submission page. Email submissions (unless Moodle is down) and late submissions will not be accepted.
The reports should ideally be around 6-8 pages, and must be prepared using the IEEE two-column conference template. Using LaTeX (or LyX) is recommended.

Honor code

Please make sure you fully understand the honor code in the syllabus as well as the Bilkent University Policy on Academic Honesty (in Turkish) and the Rules and Regulations of the Higher Education Council (YOK) (in Turkish). Cheating and plagiarism on exams, quizzes, and assignments will be punished according to these regulations.

CS484 Image Analysis (Spring 2017)

Lectures

Topics

Contents

Introduction

Digital Image Fundamentals

Binary Image Analysis

Filtering

Edge Detection

Local Feature Detectors

Color Image Processing

Texture Analysis

Image Segmentation

Representation and Description

Pattern Recognition Overview

Case Studies

Exams

Homework

Project

Honor code