16-627: MSCV Seminar
(Only open to MSCV students.) MSCV students will be required to participate in this one-semester seminar course which will prepare them for the MSCV project starting in the Spring semester. The first part of this course will cover talks by computer vision and related faculty about the ongoing research, development programs related to Computer Vision at CMU. The second part of this course will include student/faculty tutorial on topics such as OpenCV, Dataset Creation, and Mechanical Turk. The goal of this series is to get students acquainted with practical knowledge for a successful project. In the last month of the course, each lecture will cover upto four possible MSCV projects pitched by faculty or industrial sponsors. At the end of the course students will turn in their choices, and a faculty committee will assign them the final projects.
Schedule
Date
Speakers/Topic
September 01
Introduction
Mechanical Turk Tutorial
September 08
Resume Session
September 10
Job Fair Session
September 15
Stephen Nuske
Fernando De La Torres
September 22
Yaser Sheikh
Sidd Srinivasa
October 1
Leonid Sigal
Martial Hebert
October 06
Srinivasa Narasimhan
Aswin Sankaranarayanan
October 13
Louis-Phillipe Morency
Abhinav Gupta
October 20
Kayvon Fatahalian
Deva Ramanan
October 27
Simon Lucey
Kris Kitani
November 03
Evan Nisselson (Entrepreneurship)
November 10
Capstone Projects 1
November 17
Capstone Projects 2
November 24
OpenCV Tutorial
RGBD Tutorial?
Requirements
Students are required to submit five half-page summaries of faculty talks.
The course will also require students to develop a project proposal which introduces a novel way computer vision can be used (a new application area)/a new research idea/a possible project idea. This will be presented in last class(2-3 min presentations for each team, team of 2 students).