Course Syllabus
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 given weekly problem sets comprising either short answer questions or small programming problems in Matlab. The programming often relies on the tools in (ISETCAM). The toolbox and tutorials can be run from any computer running Matlab 7.0 or higher.
Problem sets are done through the "Quizzes" page on Canvas. Quiz problems may be multiple choice, short answer, or may require you to upload code or figures. You can work on the assignment throughout the week and save your progress, but you must submit your final solutions before the due date. Typically quizzes will be open at midnight on Tuesday and due the following Tuesday, at midnight.
Project: Project suggestions and opportunities will be described in class. This year projects will emphasize the use of computer graphics simulation tools, image systems simulation tools, and biomedical imaging applications. Projects can be done in groups of 2-3.
Lecture schedule
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Tutorials |
Homework due by midnight* |
Chapters |
Videos |
Notes |
Tues 9/25 |
Course overview |
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Thurs 9/27 |
Image formation: basic principles |
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ISET video |
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Tues 10/2 |
Defocus, Depth of field, light field camera, linear systems |
hwImageFormation.mlx |
HW 1 Available |
Chapters 1-3 |
Ray tracing and light fields |
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Thurs 10/4 |
Adaptive optics and human optics |
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Tues 10/9 |
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HW 1 Due |
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Video Lecture (See announcement) |
Thurs 10/11 |
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Lecture from Joyce |
Tues 10/16 |
CCD and CMOS Sensors, Rolling and Global Shutter, 3T pixel, Pixel response model, CFAs, HDR pixels |
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Thurs 10/18 |
Sensor calibration and modeling (ISET) |
hwSensorEstimation.m |
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Tues 10/23 |
Novel sensor designs |
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HW 2 Due |
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Thurs 10/25 |
Human retina (ISETBIO) |
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Chapter 10 |
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Tues 10/30 |
Color vision |
hwColorMatching.m |
HW 3 Due |
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Thurs 11/1 |
Color metrics |
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Chapters 4 and 9 |
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Tues 11/6 |
Color metrics |
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HW 4 Due HW 5 Available |
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Joyce (SFN meeting)
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Thurs 11/8 |
Camera image processing |
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Project Descriptions Due |
Chapters 7 |
L3 image processing videos |
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Tues 11/13
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Camera image processing |
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HW 5 Due |
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Thurs 11/15 |
Image quality |
Chapters 8 |
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Tues |
Thanksgiving |
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Thurs 11/22 |
Thanksgiving |
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Tues |
Guest Lecture (Kurt Akeley) |
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HW 6 Due
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Thurs 11/29 |
Human spatial vision and multiple resolution models |
hwJPEGMonochrome.m hwJPEGColor.m
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Friday 11/30 |
SCIEN Affiliates Meeting (Tentative) |
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Tues |
Image Compression |
hwJPEGMonochrome.m hwJPEGColor.m |
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Thurs |
Technologies for 3D Sensing and Display |
hwDisplayRendering.m |
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12/10-11 |
Project presentations: |
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Course Summary:
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