Course Syllabus

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General

Readings: The course textbook Foundations of Vision (1995, Wandell) is online
Grading: Homework counts for 50% of your grade; the project counts for 50%.
Homework: Students are asked to answer weekly problem sets.  These are either short answer questions or small programming problems in Matlab using the image systems’ engineering toolbox (ISET). The toolbox and tutorials can be run from any computer running Matlab 7.0 or higher.
Project: Project suggestions and opportunities will be explained in class. Projects from previous years can be browsed here.

 

Lecture schedule

Day

Topic

Tutorials

Homework due by midnight*

 Chapters

Videos

Notes

Tues 9/26

Course overview

 

 

 

 

 

Thurs 9/28

Image formation: basic principles

 

 

 

ISET video

 

Tues 10/3

Defocus, Depth of field, light field camera, linear systems

 hwImageFormation.mlx
hwImageFormationHuman.mlx

HW 1 Available

Chapters 1-3

Ray tracing and light fields

 

Thurs 10/5

Adaptive optics and human optics

 

 

 

 

 

 
Tues 10/10

CCD and CMOS Sensors, Rolling and Global Shutter, 3T pixel, Pixel response model, CFAs, HDR pixels

 

HW 1 Due
HW 2 Available

 

 

 

Thurs 10/12

Sensor calibration and modeling (ISET)

hwSensorEstimation.m 
hwMetricsMTF.m

 

 

 

Joyce

Tues 10/17

Novel sensor designs
(Triple well, Pixim)

 

HW 2 Due
HW 3 Available

 

 

 

Thurs 10/19

Human retina (ISETBIO)

 

 

Chapter 10

 

 SNI symposium

Tues 10/24

Color vision

 hwColorMatching.m
hwMetricsColor.m 

HW 3 Due
HW 4 Available

 

 

 

Thurs 10/26

Color metrics

 

 

Chapters 4 and 9

 

 

Tues 10/31

Color metrics

 

HW 4 Due

 

 

 

Thurs 11/2

Camera image processing

 

Project Descriptions Due 

HW 5 Available

Chapters 7

L3 image processing videos 

 

Tues 11/7

 

Camera image processing

 

 

 

 

 

Thurs 11/9

Image quality

HW 5 Due
HW 6 Available
(Cumulative mid-term, still takehome)

Chapters 8

 

 

Tues
11/14

Human spatial vision and multiple resolution models 

 

 HW 6 Due

 

 

 

Thurs 11/16

Image Compression 

 hwJPEGMonochrome.m

hwJPEGColor.m  

HW 7 Available

 

 

 

Tues
11/21

Thanksgiving

 

 

 

 

 

Thurs 11/23

Thanksgiving

 

 

 

 

 

Tues
11/28

Technologies for 3D Sensing and Display

hwDisplayRendering.m
hwDisplayRGB2Rendering.m 

HW 7 Due

 

 

 

Thurs
11/30

Technologies for 3D Sensing and Display

 

 

 

 

 

Tues
12/5

Computational vision; computational photography (CISET)

 

Work on your project

 

 

 

Thurs 12/7

Computational vision; computational photography

 

 

 

 

 

SCIEN Affiliates Meeting 12/8/2017

12/11- 12

Project presentations:
Finals Exam Week

 

 

 

 

 

Course Summary:

Date Details Due