CS612 Fall 1996: Advanced Topics in Computer Graphics
Computer Vision & Visualization
Description:
This graduate seminar will review some of the recent literature in Computer
Vision and Visualization. We will start the semester reviewing recent
articles out of IEEE Computer and IEEE Transactions on Visualization and
Computer Graphics. The intent is to extend our conception as to how
computer graphics fosters better understanding of complex data and the
complex algorithms.
Attention will then shift from image creation to image understanding.
While distinct problems and fields of study, there are overlaps and
synergy. We will see through our survey of the literature that as
visualization algorithms become more sophisticated, they begin to perform
`interpretation' and begin to exploit image understanding techniques. We
will also consider image understanding algorithms as test cases for how
advanced interactive visualization supports research into semi-automated
problem solving.
The topics to be covered in the image understanding portion of the seminar
include: geometric model matching, object indexing, learning control
strategies for object recognition, Eigen-space image classification
techniques and wavelets.
A more complete syllabus is available.
Related Information
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Semester schedule and reading list (Postscript)
- Includes a complete bibliography of papers.
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Tips on getting custom text colors in Gnu Emacs
- Thanks to Dave Patterson for this simple on-line helper.
Great Sites Related to This Course
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Demetri Terzopoulos Artificial Life.
- Great stuff including the paper we are reading. Also an excellent
MPEG videos. Check out
the shark learning to swim.
Last Updated: 9/13/96