An advanced seminar on issues of current interest in human and machine vision. Topics vary from year to year. This year, the class will involve studying the perception of materials. A topic and a set of readings will be chosen each week, and a participant will be in charge of leading discussion. Topics will be tackled from multiple standpoints, including optics, psychophysics, computer graphics and computer vision. Exact topics will be determined by the participants.
Material Appearance: Physical, Perceptual and Computational Issues
Physics
Human perception
Lightness, color, and transparency
Gloss, texture, and other complex properties
Computer vision
Computer graphics
Simple parametric models for reflectance
Image based rendering of materials
Weathering and distressing
Specific materials
Class participation
Students write a 15-20-page paper on one of the topics listed below. Students are expected to do further background reading in their chosen topic area.
Surface reflectance
Stereo vision
Textural analysis and synthesis
Perception and specularity
Digital image construction
The effect of contour closure on the rapid discrimination of two-dimensional shapes
What does the occluding contour tell us about solid shapes?
Constructing visual perception
Intermediate-level visual representations
Construction of surface perception
Motion segmentation and tracking