Graduate Seminar in CIS

Video Processing and Mining

CIS 750 – Spring 2003

Longin Jan Latecki, latecki@temple.edu

 

 

Meeting days:

Monday, 4:40P - 7:10PM, Room 1A TL

 

Instructor:

Longin Jan Latecki, 510 Wachman Hall, latecki@temple.edu, phone: 215 204 5781, www.ist.temple.edu/~latecki

 

Office Hours:

Monday 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm, or by appointment

 

Objective:
We will learn basic techniques for image and video processing that make possible to retrieve information from videos (video mining). These techniques will allow us to identify specified events in videos and to retrieve similar videos from video databases. We will consider applications that include video surveillance systems and video databases.

Prerequisites:

The course will be self-contained and all necessary concepts will be introduced. 

CIS 511 Programming Techniques. Good programming skills, in particular in MATLAB.

 

PROJECTS:

  1. Optical flow (motion vectors)
  2. Objects tracking
  3. Event recognition
  4. Middle level video analysis using texture blocks
  5. Object recognition
  6. Finding similar videos

Lectures: lectures.htm

 

Recommended texts:  

Paolo Remagnin , et al (Editors). Video-Based Surveillance Systems: Computer Vision and Distributed Processing. 
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.

 

David Forsyth and Jean Ponce. Computer Vision -- A modern approach. Prentice Hall, 2002.

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daf/book.html

 

Computer Vision Course by Larry Davis:

http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/lsd/426/426.html

 

Image Processing Books:

http://www.ee.siue.edu/~cvip/CVIPtools_demos/mainframe.shtml

http://css.engineering.uiowa.edu/~dip/LECTURE/lecture.html

http://www.imageprocessingbook.com/

Image Processing ToolBox Matlab

 

Grading:

10% Homework, 10% Short Tests, 10% Activity, 20% Presentation, 50% Project

 

 

Interesting links:

 

Video Codecs and Matlab : Notes by Ken Gorman

Computer Vision Homepage: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~cil/vision.html

Computer Vision Lab, UCF: http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~vision/

 

 

Interesting Applications:

freeman98computer.pdf

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/tele-immersion/