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Computer vision undergrad group meetings

These meetings are part of the undergraduate mentoring program in the Computer Vision lab. Activities are geared towards helping undergraduates participate actively in lab projects. The Vision wiki page Information for New Students has more information on what is discussed in these meetings.

Useful Links

Andrew Moore's Statistical Data Mining Tutorials

Fall 2009

In the Fall of 2009 the Computer vision undergraduate group will be meeting most Mondays between 4:30 and 5:30pm in Gould-Simpson 942.

Date Presenter Topic
Sep 14
All
Organizational meeting.
Sep 21
Ray
Introduction to LaTex - a document creation tool
Sep 28
All
General meeting and discussing topics for future sessions.
Oct 5
Mike
Automatic Synchronization of Speech Transcript and Slides in Presentation
Oct 12
James
Machine Learning Approaches for Classifying Haplogroup from Y Chromosome STR data.
Oct 19
Farnaz
Introduction to Linear Algebra
Oct 26
None
No meeting.
Nov 2
Ernesto
Camera Models
(First 10 pages of Ch 6 from the second edition of the book Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision by Hartley and Zisserman)
Nov 9
Kate
Introduction to Linear Curve Fitting and Least Squares
and
Chapter 1 of Bishop (Section 1.1)
Nov 16
Jinyan
Sampling Methods (Chapter 11 of Bishop)
These slides might also be helpful:
Introduction to Sampling
Nov 23
None
No meeting.
Nov 30
Kyle
A discussion on L-systems
Chapter 1 of "The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants" by Prusinkiewicz and Lindenmayer
Dec 7
Luca
Learning the Semantics of Words and Pictures






Summer 2009

In the summer of 2009 the Computer vision undergraduate group will be meeting most Tuesdays at 11am in Gould Simpson 927B.

Date Presenter Topic
June 16
All
Organizational meeting. Brief discussion on what everyone is working on.
June 23
Ranjini
Perl programming and Dynamic string alignment.
June 30
All
SIFT
Object Recognition from Local Scale Invariant Features
July 7
All
Introduction to Hidden Markov Models
Andrew Moore's tutorial on HMMs






Spring 2009

In the spring of 2009 the Computer vision undergraduate group will be meeting most Thursdays at 5pm in Gould-Simpson 942.

Date Presenter Topic
Feb 5
All
Organizational meeting. Brief discussion on what everyone is working on.
Feb 12
Ranjini
Introduction to svn.
Feb 19
Prasad
Gaussian Distribution.
Feb 26
Ray
Creating documents using latex.
Mar 5
Ernesto
Frequentists vs Bayesians
Mar 12
Ranjini
Basic Probability, Probability Density and Bayes' Rule
Mar 19
None
Spring Break!
Mar 26
Farnaz
Basic Probability, Probability Density and Bayes' Rule
(from slide 91/page 46)

Bayes Nets (from slide number 41/page 21)

Apr 2
All
Mid-semester review
(All projects)
Apr 9
Ernesto
3-D display of plant models
(Part of ISC Summer camp training)
Apr 16
Kobus
Introduction to Computer Vision
Apr 23
Joe
3-D Models for furniture.
Apr 30
Kyle
Modeling Rice.