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Computer vision undergrad group meetings

These meetings are part of the undergraduate mentoring program in the Computer Vision lab. Activities are geared towards helping undergraduates participate actively in lab projects. The Vision wiki page Information for New Students has more information on what is discussed in these meetings.

Useful Links

Andrew Moore's Statistical Data Mining Tutorials

Fall 2009

In the Fall of 2009 the Computer vision undergraduate group will be meeting most Mondays between 4:30 and 5:30pm in Gould-Simpson 942.

Date	Presenter	Topic
Sep 14	All	Organizational meeting.
Sep 21	Ray	Introduction to LaTex - a document creation tool
Sep 28	All	General meeting and discussing topics for future sessions.
Oct 5	Mike	Automatic Synchronization of Speech Transcript and Slides in Presentation
Oct 12	James	Machine Learning Approaches for Classifying Haplogroup from Y Chromosome STR data.
Oct 19	Farnaz	Introduction to Linear Algebra
Oct 26	None	No meeting.
Nov 2	Ernesto	Camera Models (First 10 pages of Ch 6 from the second edition of the book Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision by Hartley and Zisserman)
Nov 9	Kate	Introduction to Linear Curve Fitting and Least Squares and Chapter 1 of Bishop (Section 1.1)
Nov 16	Jinyan	Sampling Methods (Chapter 11 of Bishop) These slides might also be helpful: Introduction to Sampling
Nov 23	None	No meeting.
Nov 30	Luca	Learning the Semantics of Words and Pictures
Dec 7	Kyle	A discussion on L-systems Chapter 1 of "The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants" by Prusinkiewicz and Lindenmayer

Summer 2009

In the summer of 2009 the Computer vision undergraduate group will be meeting most Tuesdays at 11am in Gould Simpson 927B.

Date	Presenter	Topic
June 16	All	Organizational meeting. Brief discussion on what everyone is working on.
June 23	Ranjini	Perl programming and Dynamic string alignment.
June 30	All	SIFT Object Recognition from Local Scale Invariant Features
July 7	All	Introduction to Hidden Markov Models Andrew Moore's tutorial on HMMs

Spring 2009

In the spring of 2009 the Computer vision undergraduate group will be meeting most Thursdays at 5pm in Gould-Simpson 942.

Date	Presenter	Topic
Feb 5	All	Organizational meeting. Brief discussion on what everyone is working on.
Feb 12	Ranjini	Introduction to svn.
Feb 19	Prasad	Gaussian Distribution.
Feb 26	Ray	Creating documents using latex.
Mar 5	Ernesto	Frequentists vs Bayesians
Mar 12	Ranjini	Basic Probability, Probability Density and Bayes' Rule
Mar 19	None	Spring Break!
Mar 26	Farnaz	Basic Probability, Probability Density and Bayes' Rule (from slide 91/page 46) Bayes Nets (from slide number 41/page 21)
Apr 2	All	Mid-semester review (All projects)
Apr 9	Ernesto	3-D display of plant models (Part of ISC Summer camp training)
Apr 16	Kobus	Introduction to Computer Vision
Apr 23	Joe	3-D Models for furniture.
Apr 30	Kyle	Modeling Rice.