CVR C6611 Syllabus
CVR C6611 Syllabus
Course Outcomes:
• Implement fundamental image processing techniques required for computer vision
• Implement boundary tracking techniques
• Apply chain codes and other region descriptors, Hough Transform for line, circle, and
ellipse detections.
• Apply 3D vision techniques and Implement motion related techniques.
• Develop applications using computer vision techniques.
MODULE - I
CAMERAS: Pinhole Cameras
Radiometry – Measuring Light: Light in Space, Light Surfaces, Important Special Cases
Sources, Shadows, And Shading: Qualitative Radiometry, Sources and Their Effects, Local Shading
Models, Application: Photometric Stereo, Interreflections: Global Shading Models
Color: The Physics of Color, Human Color Perception, Representing Color, A Model for Image Color,
Surface Color from Image Color.
MODULE - II
Linear Filters: Linear Filters and Convolution, Shift Invariant Linear Systems, Spatial Frequency and
Texture: Representing Texture, Analysis (and Synthesis) Using Oriented Pyramids, Application:
Synthesis by Sampling Local Models, Shape from Texture.
MODULE - III
The Geometry of Multiple Views: Two Views
Stereopsis: Reconstruction, Human Stereposis, Binocular Fusion, Using More Cameras
MODULE - IV
Segmentation by Fitting a Model: The Hough Transform, Fitting Lines, Fitting Curves, Fitting
as a Probabilistic Inference Problem, Robustness
MODULE - V
Introduction to Robotics: Social Implications of Robotics, Brief history of Robotics,
Attributes of hierarchical paradigm, Closed world assumption and frame problem,
Representative Architectures,
TEXT BOOKS:
1. David A. Forsyth and Jean Ponce: Computer Vision – A Modern Approach, PHI
Learning (Indian Edition), 2009.
2. Robin Murphy, Introduction to AI Robotics, MIT Press
REFERENCE BOOKS:
1. E. R. Davies: Computer and Machine Vision – Theory, Algorithms and
Practicalities, Elsevier (Academic Press), 4th edition, 2013.
2. The Robotics premier, Maja J Matari, MIT Press
3. Richard Szeliski “Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications” Springer-
Verlag London Limited 2011.