Tuesday-Thursday 10:30AM-11:50AM NSH 3002
| Instructor of record: | Martial Hebert | hebert@ri.cmu.edu |
The instructor will cover background material in class as introduction
to each of the topics. Each week, two papers on a particular topic will
be assigned. After reading them, your must find a third paper on your own
that is relevant to the topic. You need to bring a hard copy of the paper
you selected to the instructor and send an email message containing the
full citation and one-line summary of the paper. During class, each
of the two assigned papers will be formally presented by one of the students
(mapping students to topics will be done in the first week of class). This
is expected to be a formal presentation in front of the class (approximately
40 mins). The presenter will then answer the questions from other students.
The presentation will then evolve into a class discussion on the topic
covered in the paper. The instructors are responsible for keeping the discussion
in a fruitful vein and making sure all students get a chance to participate.
The instructors are also responsible for making sure that the important
points are touched upon during the discussion, which will sometimes mean
asking questions of the class, and for making sure that each paper is covered
(which sometimes means cutting off discussion and moving on). It is expected
that proof-of-concept implementation of key concepts will be generated
in order to illustrate the presentation.
At the end of the class, we will go around the room asking each of
you to cite the third paper you have personally chosen for that week, briefly
describe it (but in sufficient details to understand the point of the paper),
tell us why you picked it (i.e. how does it relate to the topic area and
the two assigned papers), and finally whether or not you would recommend
that paper for others to read.
Grading is based entirely on the quality of the presentations, analysis
of the papers, and discussion.
It is important that students in the class have previously taken 16-720 or a similar intro to Computer Vision.
This year's selection of papers is devoted to object recognition/detection (in a broad interpretation of the term) since that topic was somewhat neglected in 16-720 and it is an increasingly important area.
Note that, one some weeks, two papers may be listed for a single presentation. This occurs when two papers are closely related (e.g., one is an earlier version of a later implementation), for example. Also, some weeks include background papers that are intended to facilitate the understanding of the main papers.