Class Announcements

• 1/12/2007 Class website created.
• 1/17/2007 Kalman Filtering tutorial.
• 1/18/2007 Due to an emergency, office hours today 12-1.
• 1/21/2007 Omnidirectional cameras.
• 1/21/2007 Introduction to the Brainstem/PPRK kit.
• 1/21/2007 Nayar's website (Columbia).
• 1/23/2007 Color cameras-Bayer pattern.
• 1/23/2007 Active Contours.
• 1/27/2007 The tutorial on surveillance has been posted under "Class material."
• 1/27/2007 Due to travel, the office hours on Thursday will take place on Tuesday 12:15-1:15.
• 1/27/2007 Papers claimed so far: 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 18, 24, 26, 28, 33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 49, 50, 52, 54, 55, 57, 58, 59, 61, 62, 64, 65, 67, 68, 69. Books claimed so far: 8
• 2/8/2007 Evan Ribnick's and Sam Herbert's transparencies have been posted under "Class material."
• 2/8/2007 Presentation schedule--February 1, 2007 Lane Philips; February 6, 2007 Evan Ribnick; February 8, 2007 Sam Herbert and Nikos Papanikolopoulos; February 13, 2007 John Andersh and Nathaniel Bird; February 15, 2007 Nathaniel Bird and Guruprasad; February 20, 2007 Stefan Atev and Amer Agovic; February 27, 2007 Amer Agovic and Maitreyi Nanjanath; March 6, 2007 Hyeun Jeong and Brett Hemes; March 8, 2007 Loren Fiore and Eric Theriault; March 19, 2007 Guruprasad and Iman Aganj; March 20, 2007 Alex Kossett and Max Walter; March 22, 2007 Iman Aganj; March 27, 2007 Sushanth Rajasankar and Nathaniel Bird; March 29, 2007 Novaira Masood and Dan Rausch; April 3, 2007 Loren Fiore and Duc Fehr; April 5, 2007 Novaira Masood and Esha Nerurkar; April 10, 2007 Erik Theriault and Doug Cook; April 12, 2007 Faraz Mirzaei and Ajay Joshi; April 19 Ajay Joshi and Nikos Papanikolopoulos; April 24, 2007 Ajay Joshi, Riea Moon, and Esha Nerurkar; April 26, 2007 Riea Moon and Faraz M. Mirzaei.
• 2/8/2007 Link to Andrew Blake's powerpoint file.
• 2/19/2007 Nathaniel Bird's, John Andersh's, Guruprasad's, Atev's and Agovic's transparencies have been posted under "Class material."
• 2/20/2007 Paper question has been posted in the forum.
• 2/22/2007 Maitreyi Nanjanath's transparencies have been posted under "Class material."
• 2/27/2007 Hyeun Jeong Min's and Brett Hemes' transparencies have been posted under "Class material." Brett's papers are: (i) Distributed Control for 3D Metamorphosis (Autonomous Robots) 2001 M Yim, Y Zhang, J Lamping, E Mao - Autonomous Robots, 2001 - Springer http://www2.parc.com/spl/projects/modrobots/publications/pdf/arj_final.pdf and (ii) Rhombic Dodecahedron (XEROX Parc Tech Report) 1997 M Yim, J Lamping, E Mao, JG Chase - SPL TechReport http://www2.parc.com/spl/projects/modrobots/publications/pdf/rdtechreport.pdf.
• 3/1/2007 At 2pm, the U decided to cancel all classes after 2:30pm.
• 3/7/2007 The class which was cancelled due to snow will be done on March 19, 2007 in Walter 405 (12:15-1:30p). Guruprasad and Iman Aganj will present.
• 3/7/2007 Eric's transparencies have been posted. The paper can be found here.
• 3/7/2007 Polybot site.
• 3/12/2007 Esha Nerkurkar's papers can be found at: (i) http://cogvis.nada.kth.se/~hic/SLAM/Papers/Basic_Slam_Paper.pdf and (ii) http://www.acfr.usyd.edu.au/homepages/academic/enebot/publications/CEKF_SLAM.pdf.
• 3/19/2007 Kossett's, Aganj's, and Guru's transparencies have been posted.
• 3/20/2007 The Konolige (SRI) stereo system can be found here.
• 3/20/2007 The Andrew Ng's paper on depth from a single image can be found here.
• 3/22/2007 Walter's and Aganj's transparencies have been posted.
• 3/22/2007 Link to Walter's paper 1.
• 3/22/2007 Link to Walter's paper 2.
• 3/22/2007 Link to Roger Quinn's work.
• 3/27/2007 Rajasankar's transparencies have been posted.
• 3/29/2007 Bird's, Masood's, and Rausch's transparencies have been posted.
• 3/29/2007 Link to a wavelet tutorial.
• 3/29/2007 The project report (due April 3) should be 5-6 pages and have the following structure: Abstract, Introduction, Problem Description, Your Work, Discussion and Issues, Future Work, Timeline, and References.
• 4/3/2007 Fehr's and Fiore's transparencies have been posted.
• 4/4/2007 Vassilios Morellas (morellas@cs.umn.edu) will monitor the lectures next week. Please send him as well as me the transparencies for the lectures next week.
• 4/4/2007 One of my office hours next week will take place this Thursday (4/5/2007) at 12:15pm and the other one on Thursday (4/19/2007) at 12:15pm.
• 4/4/2007 Nerurkar's and Masood's transparencies have been posted.
• 4/17/2007 Cook's, Ajay's, Mirzaei's, and Theriault's transparencies have been posted.
• 4/17/2007 Link to Doug Cook's presented IJCV paper (pdf).
• 4/23/2007 Presentations; May 1: Alex Kossett, Novaira Masood, Dan Rausch, Lane Phillips, Hyeun Jeong Min, Ajay Joshi, Esha Nerurkar May 3: Jon Andersh, Doug Cook, Nate Bird, Stefan Atev, Evan Ribnick, Riea Moon, Loren Fiore, Duc Fher, Guruprasad, Amer Agovic, Maitreyi Nanjanath
• 4/23/2007 Condensation transparencies have been posted.
• 4/29/2007 Ajay's, Riea's, and Faraz's transparencies have been posted.
• 4/30/2007 Link to the CEDAR Center's OCR resources.