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Computer Vision: Object and People Tracking - SS 2012

Room and Time
Lecture: 48/462, Monday, 10:00-11:30
Exercise (on demand): 32-411-PC (possibly at DFKI), Wednesday, 14:00-16:00 (see below)
Exam: Oral exam

Contacts
Prof. Dr. Didier Stricker
Dr. Gabriele Bleser: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Topics:

Camera model and image formation
Template tracking and feature descriptors
Background modelling and subtraction
Model-based tracking (CAD models, edge-features)
Object detection
Recursive Bayesian tracking
(Extended) Kalman filters
Motion and measurement models for visual tracking
Applications

Slides
The slides will be continuously added here:

16.04.2012: Introduction
23.04.2012: Edge and corner detection
30.04.2012: Corner and blob detection, feature descriptors
07.05.2012: Templates and Background Subtraction
14.05.2012: Feature Tracking and Optical Flow

Exercises
Readings are given within the lectures. Home assignments (three are planned in total) and tutorial sessions will be given in the second part of the lecture (about Baysian tracking) starting in June 2012. The practical implementation exercises are planned in Matlab (or Octave).
The tentative plan for the homeworks is:

First homework: appear at 04.06.2012
Second homework: appear at 18.06.2012
Third homework: appear at 02.07.2012

Exercise sessions are tentatively planned for 14.06.2012 and 28.06.2012. This will be fixed in June.

Bibliography (textbooks)

David A. Forsyth and Jean Ponce, Computer Vision: A Modern Approach
Richard Hartley and Andrew Zisserman, Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision
Y. Ma, S. Soatto, J. Kosecka, S. Sastry, An invitation to 3D Vision, 2003
Giorgio Panin, Model-based visual tracking, ed. Wiley-Blackwell
Sebastian Thrun, Probabilistic Robotics (http://www.probabilistic-robotics.org/)
Y. Bar-Shalom, Estimation with Applications to Tracking and Navigation: Theory Algorthims and Software: Theory Algorithms and Software

3D Computer Vision - Winter 2011/12

Room and Time

Lecture: 48/462, Wednesday, 08:15-09:45, starting 19.10.2011
Exercise: 32/411, Monday, 17:00-19:00, starting 07.11.2011, possibly 21.11.2011
Exam: Oral exam. In order to qualify, a minimum average score of 60% in the exercises is required.

Prof. Dr. Didier Stricker
Dr. Gabriele Bleser: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Tobias Nöll: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Johannes Köhler: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

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