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Regular class
time: Monday 6:10 – 8:50 pm – CoRE 305 (B)
Instructor: Ahmed Elgammal -- email: Elgammal (at) cs.Rutgers.edu
Course Number: 198:676 -- Index 54696
Overview:
Visual processing of humans and their motion is essential for many applications such as visual surveillance, HCI, multimedia databases and virtual reality. Detection of humans, tracking their body parts, recognizing their faces, and understanding their actions are some examples of many problems related to humans in images and videos. Recently, there has been a lot of emphasis in computer vision research to solve these problems. The course goal is to survey computer vision literature on approaches, which are used to analyze humans and their motion in images and videos with the focus on critically evaluating these approaches, their assumptions, and their applicability to different domains.
Detection: detecting humans and faces. Modeling and tracking: human body modeling and visual tracking. Recognition: gesture recognition, facial expression recognition and activity recognition. Identification: face and gait recognition. Applications: visual surveillance, human computer interaction, video archival and retrieval.
Some previous exposure to computer vision and statistics will be assumed during presentations and discussion.
Class will be conducted in a seminar style. For each class, some research or survey papers will be selected and “handed-out” one week in advance. Students are expected to read these papers prior to the class. Each paper will be summarized by the instructor and discussed during the class.
Class Project:
Students are expected to work on a class research project or a survey paper throughout the semester to explore one of the class topics.
Research Project: Students are to choose their own projects and are encouraged to find a project related to their own research. The project ideas are expected to be innovative, experimental and feasible to be done within the semester time frames.
Survey Paper: Choose a topic and survey the literature on this topic. The survey is supposed to be comprehensive, critical and providing insight summarization of the literature. The survey is expected to be a journal paper quality.
Project time line