Topics Outline (preliminary)

1. Image representations: data structures, pixels, and colormaps

 Application: Combining images of varying contrast

2. Lighting and reflectance models

 Applications: Photometric stereo, illumination invariant               recognition of faces.

3. Filtering: spatial domain

 Application: "corners", good features to track

   Filtering: frequency (Fourier) domain

 Applications: image subsampling, JPEG image   compression

4. Motion (spatial and Fourier analysis)

 Applications: optical flow, motion segmentation

5. 3D geometry and structure

 Applications: stereo depth recovery, image compositing

6. Object Recognition and Indexing

 Application: PCA for object recognition