Course Syllabus
Image Formation Models – Monocular imaging system, Orthographic & Perspective Projection, Camera model and Camera calibration, Binocular imaging systems. Image Processing and Feature Extraction – Image representations (continuous and discrete), Edge detection. Motion Estimation, Regularization theory, Optical computation, Stereo Vision, Motion estimation, Structure from motion. Shape Representation and Segmentation, Deformable curves and surfaces, Snakes and active contours, Level set representations, Fourier and wavelet descriptors, Medial representations, Multiresolution analysis. Object recognition – Hough transforms and other simple object recognition methods, Shape correspondence and shape matching, Principal component analysis, Shape priors for recognition.