CCS338 COMPUTER VISION L T P C`2 0 2 3
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
To understand the fundamental concepts related to Image formation and processing.
To learn feature detection, matching and detection
To become familiar with feature based alignment and motion estimation
To develop skills on 3D reconstruction
To understand image based rendering and recognition
UNIT I INTRODUCTION TO IMAGE FORMATION AND PROCESSING 6
Computer Vision - Geometric primitives and transformations - Photometric image formation –
The digital camera - Point operators - Linear filtering - More neighborhood operators - Fourier
transforms - Pyramids and wavelets - Geometric transformations - Global optimization.
UNIT II FEATURE DETECTION, MATCHING AND SEGMENTATION 6
Points and patches - Edges - Lines - Segmentation - Active contours - Split and merge - Mean
shift and mode finding - Normalized cuts - Graph cuts and energy-based methods.
UNIT III FEATURE-BASED ALIGNMENT & MOTION ESTIMATION 6
2D and 3D feature-based alignment - Pose estimation - Geometric intrinsic calibration -
Triangulation - Two-frame structure from motion - Factorization - Bundle adjustment –
Constrained structure and motion - Translational alignment - Parametric motion - Spline-based
motion – Optical flow - Layered motion.
UNIT IV 3D RECONSTRUCTION 6
Shape from X - Active range finding - Surface representations - Point-based representations-
Volumetric representations - Model-based reconstruction - Recovering texture maps and
albedosos.
UNIT V IMAGE-BASED RENDERING AND RECOGNITION 6
View interpolation Layered depth images - Light fields and Lumi graphs - Environment mattes -
Video-based rendering-Object detection - Face recognition - Instance recognition – Category
recognition - Context and scene understanding- Recognition databases and test sets.
Total:-30 PERIODS
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Richard Szeliski, “Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications”, Springer- Texts in
Computer Science, Second Edition, 2022.
2. Computer Vision: A Modern Approach, D. A. Forsyth, J. Ponce, Pearson Education, Second
Edition, 2015.
REFERENCES:
1. Richard Hartley and Andrew Zisserman, Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision,
Second Edition, Cambridge University Press, March 2004.
2. Christopher M. Bishop; Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Springer, 2006
3. E. R. Davies, Computer and Machine Vision, Fourth Edition, Academic Press, 2012.
PRACTICAL EXERCISES: 30 PERIODS
LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS : Software needed:
OpenCV computer vision Library for OpenCV in Python / PyCharm or C++ / Visual Studio or
equivalent
OpenCV Installation and working with Python
Basic Image Processing - loading images, Cropping, Resizing, Thresholding, Contour analysis,
Bolb detection
Image Annotation – Drawing lines, text circle, rectangle, ellipse on images
Image Enhancement - Understanding Color spaces, color space conversion, Histogram
equialization, Convolution, Image smoothing, Gradients, Edge Detection
Image Features and Image Alignment – Image transforms – Fourier, Hough, Extract ORB Image
features, Feature matching, cloning, Feature matching based image alignment
Image segmentation using Graphcut / Grabcut
Camera Calibration with circular grid
Pose Estimation
3D Reconstruction – Creating Depth map from stereo images
Object Detection and Tracking using Kalman Filter, Camshift
1. docs.opencv.org
2. https://opencv.org/opencv-free-course/
COURSE OUTCOMES:
At the end of this course, the students will be able to:
CO1:To understand basic knowledge, theories and methods in image processing and computer
vision.
CO2:To implement basic and some advanced image processing techniques in OpenCV.
CO3:To apply 2D a feature-based based image alignment, segmentation and motion estimations.
CO4:To apply 3D image reconstruction techniques
CO5:To design and develop innovative image processing and computer vision applications.
