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Current Topics in Perception

2-0-7 units · Graduate

Advanced seminar on issues of current interest in human and machine vision. Topics vary from year to year. Participants discuss current literature as well as their ongoing research.

Fall 2001 · Special Topics in Vision Science

Topics

  • Introduction
  • Surface Reflectance
  • Stereo
  • 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 Shape?
  • Constructing Visual Perception
  • Motion Segmentation and Tracking Using Normalized Cuts
  • Conclusion

Readings

  • Adelson, E. H. “Lightness perception and lightness illusions.” In The Cognitive Neurosciences. Edited by M. Gazzaniga. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999, pp. 339-351.
    Listed reading
  • Boivin, S., and A. Gagalowicz. “Image-based rendering of diffuse, specular and glossy surfaces from a single image.” Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH) (2001).
    Listed reading
  • Debevec, P. E. “Rendering synthetic objects into real scenes: Bridging traditional and image-based graphics with global illumination and high dynamic range photography.” Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH) (1998).
    Listed reading
  • Debevec, P. E., T. Hawkins, C. Tchou, H.-P. Duiker, W. Sarokin, and M. Sagar. “Acquiring the reflectance field of a human face.” Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH) (2000).
    Listed reading
  • Dror, R. O., E. H. Adelson, and A. S. Willsky. “Surface re- flectance estimation and natural illumination statistics.” In Proc. of IEEE Workshop on Statistical and Computational Theories of Vision. Vancouver, Canada, July 2001.
    Listed reading
  • Fleming, R., R. O. Dror, and E. H. Adelson. “How do humans determine reflectance properties under unknown illumination?” In Proceedings of CVPR Workshop on Identifying Objects Across Variations in Lighting: Psychophysics and Computation. 2001.
    Listed reading
  • Glassner, A. S. Principles of Digital Image Synthesis. Vol. 2. Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, 1995.
    Listed reading
  • Heeger, D. J., and J. R. Bergen. “Pyramid-based texure analysis/ synthesis.” Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH) (1995).
    Listed reading
  • Nishida, S., and M. Shinya. “Use of image-based information in judgments of surface-reflectance properties.” J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 15 (1998): 2951-2965.
    Listed reading
  • Phong, B.-T. “Illumination for computer generated pictures.” Communications of the ACM 18(6) (1975): 311-7.
    Listed reading
  • Portilla, J., and E. P. Simoncelli. “A parametric texture model based on joint statistics of complex wavelet coefficients.” Int. J. Computer Vision 40 (2000): 49-71.
    Listed reading
  • Ramamoorthi, R., and P. Hanrahan. “A signal-processing framework for inverse rendering.” Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH) (2001).
    Listed reading
  • Sato, Y., M. D. Wheeler, and K. Ikeuchi. “Object shape and re- flectance modeling from observation.” Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH) (1997).
    Listed reading
  • Shafer, S. “Using color to separate reflection components.” Color Research and Application 10 (1985): 210-218.
    Listed reading
  • Tominaga, S., and N. Tanaka. “Estimating reflection parameters from a single color image.” IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 20 (September/October 2000): 58-66.
    Listed reading
  • Ward, G. J. “Measuring and modeling anisotropic reflection.” Computer Graphics(SIGGRAPH) 26(2) (1992): 265-72.
    Listed reading
  • Yu, Y., P. Debevec, J. Malik, and T. Hawkins. “Inverse global illumination: Recovering reflectance models of real scenes from photographs.” Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH). Los Angeles (1999): 215-24.
    Listed reading

Prerequisites & course information

Prereq: Permission of instructor G (Spring) 2-0-7 units Can be repeated for credit.

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