Department of Computer Science
Div. of Web Science and Technology
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

CS688/WST665: Web-Scale Image Retrieval (Fall 2012)

Instructor: Sung-eui Yoon

When and where: 1:00-2:15pm on Tue. and Thur. at Room 3444 in the CS building

First class: Sep-4 (please come to first class for more information)

Please refer to the first lecture slide for other course information

Textbook: In-class handouts (no textbooks)

Board: Noah board

Outline

Course overview

We extract feature points between two similar images and match them, followed by overlaying them together based on the matched points in the bottom row.

Thanks to rapid advances of digital camera and various image processing tools, we can easily create new pictures, images, and videos for various purposes. This in turn results in a huge amount of images in the internet and even in personal computers. For example, flickr, an image hosting website, contains more than five billion images and flickr members update more than three thousands image every minute.

These huge image databases pose numerous technical challenges in terms of image processing, searching, storing, etc. In this class we will discuss various scalable techniques for web-scale image/video databases and novel applications that can utilize such data.

In summary, what you will get at the end of the course:

What you will do:

Lecture schedule (subject to change)

# of lecture, date	Topics and slides	Related material(s)
Sep-4 (Th)	Overview on the course and course policy	Q and A for the course (frequently updated)
Sep-6 (Th) Sep-11 (T)	Keypoint localization
Sep-13 (Th)	Scale-invariant region detector
Sep-18 (T)	Descriptors	PA1: get to know basic libraries
Sep-25 (T.) Sep-27 (Th)	Intro. to object detection
Oct-4 (Th) Oct-9 (T)	Bag-of-Word approach	PA2: basic image retrieval, Image database
Oct-11 (Th) Oct-16 (T) Oct-18 (Th)	Recent image retrieval systems
Oct-23 (T)	Mid-term exam
Oct-30 (T)	Seungwoo, Mingyang
Nov-1 (Th)	Soyoung, Suwon
Nov-6 (T)	Kwangheum, Junghyuk
Nov-8 (Th)	Gayeon, Aurelie
Nov-13 (T)	Project feedback
Nov-15 (Th)	Project feedback
Nov-20 (T)	Florent, Gangwook
Nov-22 (Th)	Jongwook, Donghyun
Nov-27 (T)	Jongin, Soonmin
Nov-29 (Th)	No class, because of attending a conf. (SIGGRAPH Asia)
Dec-4 (T)	Kyunghyun
Dec-6 (Th)	Changhoon, Sungheon
Dec-11 (T) Dec-13 (Th)	Final project presentation

Student presentations and reports

For your presentations, please use the this powerpoint template; paper presentation guideline is available.

For your final report, please use the this latex template

Additional reference materials and links

Computer vision resources (papers, code, datasets, etc.):

Paper search:

Acknowledgements: The course materials are based on those of Prof. Fei-Fei Li, Stanford. Thank you so much!

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