CS 213: Visual Perception
Instructor: Aditi Majumder (Office: DBH 4056)
Timings: MW 11:00am-12:20pm
Quarter: Spring 2013
Course Description
This course will serve as an
introduction to the process of visual perception. The goal of this course is to
provide the student with a understanding of what goes on behind of scenes of
human visual perception, and how this understanding can help to advance the
technologies of computer vision, computer graphics, multimedia and human
computer interaction (HCI).
This course will offer both the physiological and the psychophysical approach
to understand human vision and will relate the two fields together to create a
consistent and complete understanding of the process of visual perception. For
the physiological approach, the course will introduce the areas of lower level
visual processing in the receptors of the eye and the lateral geniculate
nucleus and higher level visual processing in different areas of the brain. In
the psychophysical approach, the course will introduce the different
psychophysical models of human vision, like the models of perceptual
organization, perceptual segregation, and construction. Concepts of color,
depth, movement and their visual perception will be introduced. To relate the
materials presented in the context of different areas of computer science,
examples of the quantification and use of these physiological and
psychophysical models in computer vision, computer graphics, multimedia and HCI
will be referenced.
Tentative Course
Outline
- Introduction
- Optical Info
- Visual System
- Percieving
Objects, Color, Depth and Movements
- Spatial Vision
- Perception and Action
- Applications
- Digital Color and
Visualization Systems
- Image and Video
Compression
- Gamut Matching
- Camera Calibration
- Depth Reconstruction
Grading Policy
- Midterm = 10%
- Survey Project = 25%
- Final Project = 25%
- Final = 40%
Course Materials
(Borrowed from E. Bruce Goldstein’s Sensation and Perception,
Palmer’s Vision Science and DeValois and DeValois’s Spatial Vision)
Exam
Practice Questions
for Final
References
- Sensation and Perception, E.
Bruce Goldstein
- Vision Science: Photons and
Phenomenology, Stephen E. Palmer
- Theories of Visual
Perception, Ian E. Gordon
- Color Appearance Models, Mark
D. Fairchild
- Spatial Vision, Russell L. DeValois, Karen K. DeValois
Survey Projects
1)
[May 1] Objects and Scenes – Vision Science, Stephen E. Palmer (Chapter 6: Sections 6.4 –
6.6, Chapter 7: Sections 7.2 – 7.6) – Mahdi Abbaspour Tehrani[Presentation][Presentation from 2008][Notes from 2008]
7)
[May 22] Advanced Spatial Vision – Spatial Vision, Russell L. DeValois and Karen
K. De Valois (Chapter 7 and 8) – Xuan Mei[Presentation]
[Presentation from 2008][Notes from 2008]
8)
[May 29] Color Appearance Models - Color Appearance Models, Mark D. Fairchild (Chapter 10, 11, 12, and
13) – Mehdi
Rahimzadeh [Presentation] [Presentation from 2008][Notes from 2008]
10)[June 5] Perception and Art – Weizhei Ni[Presentation]
Some Ideas for Final Projects
·
Perception Based Chrominance Blending for Non-Parametric Multi-Projector
Displays – Mahdi
Tehrani and Mehdi Rahimzadeh