Spring 2007 Semester
| Week of (# of lectures) |
Topics |
Readings, project |
Presenter |
| 1/22 (3) | Introduction to face recognition, | Zhao, ECCV 2004 tutorial, [ Zhao04] | Instructor |
| 1/29 (3) | Pattern classification, linear discriminant analysis | Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) by Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna of Texas A&M U. | Instructor |
| 2/5 (3) | Typical Face Recognition Methods: (a) Eigen face (Fisher face), (b) Elastic bundle brunch, and (c) | [Turk91], [Belhumeur97], [Wiskot97] | EBB: Omar Negrete; Project #1 |
| 2/12 (3) | Active appearance model, Face detection (Adaboost, skin color segmentation), Human face recognition, | [cotes01], Yang, ICPR'04 Tutorial, [Yang02], [sinha06] | face detection: Feng Liu; |
| 2/21 (2) | Expression invariance in face recognition, geometric invariant features | [Rong04], [Bronstein07], Notes | skin color detection: Adam Slater, Fan Jiang; |
| 2/26 (3) | Multimedia secure communication; Multimedia data hiding; | Notes | |
| 3/5 (3) | Multimedia data hiding; watermark attack (Note) | Project proposal due | Project #2 |
| 3/12 (3) | Additive Watermark | (a) Secure Spread
Spectrum Watermarking for Multimedia; (b) Perceptual watermarks for digital images and video |
Tony Boehm |
| 3/19 (3) | MPEG-21, Fundamental theory of watermarking, MPEP-7 |
(a) MPEG-21: The 21st century multimedia framework (b) Data hiding in image and video I. Fundamental issues and solutions; Data hiding in image and video II. Designs and applications Notes |
(a) Joe Halfen, (b) Niveditha Sundaram |
| 3/26 (3) | MPEG-7 and Content Based Multimedia Signal processing | Notes | |
| 4/2-4/6 | UW-Madison Spring Break | ||
| 4/9 (3) | Introduction to multimedia communication |
(a) Scalable video coding and transport over broadband wireless
networks |
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| 4/16, 18 | No class, will make up (4/20 CoE Expo) | ||
| 4/23 (5), make up lectures 9:00-9:50 AM MW | H.264 and Fine-grain scalable video coding, video adaptation |
(a) Overview of the H.264/AVC video coding standard
(b) Overview of fine granularity scalability in MPEG-4 video standard (c) Video adaptation: concepts, technologies, and open issues (d) Automatic moving object extraction for content-based applications |
(a)-(b) Instructor (c) Feng Liu (d) Adam Slater |
| 4/30, 5/1, 3 (4), make up lecture 9:00-9:50 AM, Monday 4/30 | Multicast; |
(a) Multicast and unicast real-time video streaming over wireless LANs
(b) Channel coding and transmission aspects for wireless multimedia (c) Video coding for streaming media delivery on the Internet (d) Channel-adaptive resource allocation for scalable video transmission over 3G wireless network |
(a) Niveditha Sundaram (Monday, I), (b) Fan Jiang (Monday, II), (c) Tony Boehm (d) Joe Halfen |
| 5/7 (3) | In-class Project Presentation and demo (5/9, 11) |
(a) Matching and retrieval based on the vocabulary and grammar of color patterns |
(a)Omer Negrete |
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5/14 |
12:25 PM, Final Examination, project due |