CSE 6389 - Image and Video Databases - Summer 2010
Syllabus

Course web page: http://vlm1.uta.edu/~athitsos/courses/cse6389_summer2010/

Instructor:

Vassilis Athitsos

Office: NH 309
Office hours: MW 3:00pm-4:30pm.

Course Description

Contents and Objectives:

 
The goal of this course is to study methods for comparing and identifying visual patterns. For example, these visual patterns can correspond to letters, hands, gestures, faces, or other types of objects or activities. The first question we study is: what are meaningful ways to evaluate the similarity between visual patterns? How can we tell that a pattern A is more similar to a pattern B than to a pattern C? The course covers different similarity measures, including correlation, the Euclidean distance, the chamfer distance, the Hausdorff distance, dynamic time warping, the edit distance, and shape context matching. The second question that this course addresses is: how can we find efficiently the most similar match for a test pattern in a large database of images or video? The course covers different indexing methods, that can efficiently identify the best matches without having to exhaustively compare the test image or video to every database image or video.

Prerequisites:

 
CSE 5360 or CSE 6367 or consent of instructor. A strong programming background is assumed, as well as familiarity with linear algebra (vector and matrix operations), and knowledge of basic probability theory and statistics.

Course Materials:

 
Course materials such as lecture notes, assignments, and solutions will be available electronically on the course web page. Changes and corrections, if any, will also be announced by e-mail.

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