Schedule

Date Topics Assigned Readings for Class Assignments Due Before Class (posted on Canvas)
Mon, Aug 28 Course Introduction
(lecture slides)
Wed, Aug 30 Course Introduction
(lecture slides)
How to Read a CS Research Paper, How to Read an Engineering Research Paper
Mon, Sep 4 No Class (Labor Day)
Wed, Sep 6 Object Recognition
(lecture slides)
ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database Reading Assignment
Mon, Sep 11 Object Recognition
(lecture slides)
ImageNet classification with deep convolutional neural networks (AlexNet) Reading Assignment, Lecture Topic Selection
Wed, Sep 13 Scene and Attribute Classification
(lecture slides)
Learning Deep Features for Scene Recognition using Places Database Reading Assignment
Mon, Sep 18 Object Detection
(lecture slides)
Rich Feature Hierarchies for Accurate Object Detection and Semantic Segmentation (R-CNN) Reading Assignment
Wed, Sep 20 Object Detection
(lecture slides)
You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection (YOLO) Reading Assignment
Mon, Sep 25 Guest Lecture: Samreen Anjum on Single Object Tracking SiamRPN++: Evolution of Siamese Visual Tracking with Very Deep Networks Reading Assignment
Wed, Sep 27 Semantic Segmentation
(lecture slides)
Fully Convolutional Networks for Semantic Segmentation Reading Assignment
Mon, Oct 2 Vision Transformers
(lecture slides)
An Image is Worth 16X16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale Reading Assignment
Wed, Oct 4 Visual Foundation Models and Prompts
(lecture slides)
Visual Prompt Tuning Reading Assignment, Project Proposal
Mon, Oct 9 Instance Segmentation Required: IDOL algorithm; Optional: YoutubeVIS2019 dataset Reading Assignment
Wed, Oct 11 Panoptic Segmentation Required: YOSO algorithm; Optional: CityScapes dataset Reading Assignment
Mon, Oct 16 Object Part Segmentation Required: Compositor; Optional: PartImageNet dataset Reading Assignment
Wed, Oct 18 Referring Expression Comprehension Required: MDETR; Optional: RefCOCOg dataset Reading Assignment
Mon, Oct 23 Image Captioning Required: mPLUG; Optional: COCO-Captions Reading Assignment
Wed, Oct 25 Visual Question Answering Required: LaTr; Optional: Context-VQA Reading Assignment
Mon, Oct 30 Image Synthesis Required: Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models; Optional: CIFAR Reading Assignment
Wed, Nov 1 Image Inpainting Required: MAT; Optional: NTIRE 2022 Reading Assignment
Mon, Nov 6 3D Model Synthesis Required: NeRF; Optional: ShapeNet Reading Assignment
Wed, Nov 8 Image/Video Restoration Required: SwinIR; Optional: DIV2K Reading Assignment
Mon, Nov 13 Image/Video Super Resolution Required: HAT; Optional: NTIRE 2017 Reading Assignment
Wed, Nov 15 Action Recognition in Videos Required: ActionCLIP; Optional: Kinetics Reading Assignment
Mon, Nov 20 No Class (Fall Break)
Wed, Nov 22 No Class (Fall Break)
Mon, Nov 27 Style Transfer
(lecture slides)
Wed, Nov 29 Model Compression
(lecture slides)
Project Outline
Mon, Dec 4 Efficient Learning
(lecture slides)
Wed, Dec 6 Responsible Computer Vision
(lecture slides)
Mon, Dec 11 Responsible Computer Vision
Wed, Dec 13 Final Project Presentation Final Project Presentation, Peer Evaluations
Tue, Dec 19 No Class (Final Exam Week) Final Project Report


* Blue entries indicate the weeks for the student-led lectures.