9.67(0) Object and Face Recognition

MIT

Spring 2001

Instructor
Prof. Pawan Sinha
email: sinha@ai.mit.edu
office: E25-229

Lecture Details
Location: E25-202
Times: Tuesdays and Thursdays 1-2:30

Description
Provides a comprehensive introduction to key issues and findings in object recognition in experimental, neural, computational, and applied domains. Emphasizes the problem of representation, exploring the issue of how 3-D objects should be encoded so as to efficiently recognize them from 2-D images. Second half focuses on face recognition, an ecologically important instance of the general object recognition problem. Describes experimental studies of human face recognition performance and recent attempts to mimic this ability in artificial computational systems. An additional project is required for graduate credit.

Syllabus, etc.
Syllabus [HTML 15 kB][PDF 8kB]

Handouts
Lecture #1 Feb 6, 2001 [PDF 71 kB]
    Overview of what's to come.

Lecture #2 Feb 8, 2001 [PDF 1,777 kB]
    The magic of insect hive-finding.
    Questions

Lecture #3 Feb 13, 2001 [PDF 520 kB]
    Pattern recognition in birds.
    Questions

Lecture #4 Feb 15, 2001 [PDF 510 kB]
   Characteristics of human object recognition psychophysics based on psychophysical experiments. 
    Questions

Lecture #5 Feb 22, 2001 [Directory of jpegs]
    Questions

Lecture #6 Feb 27, 2001 [PDF 410 kB]
    Questions

Lecture #7 Mar 1, 2001 [Directory of jpegs]
    Questions

Lecture #8 Mar 6, 2001 [Directory of jpegs] 
    Questions

Lecture #9 Mar 8, 2001 [Directory of jpegs] 
    Questions

Lecture #10 Mar 13, 2001 [Directory of jpegs] 
    Questions

Lecture #11 Mar 20, 2001 [PDF 265 kB]  
    Questions

Lecture #12 Mar 22, 2001 
    Questions (not yet available)

Lecture #13 April 3, 2001
    Guest Lecturer: Bill Silver from Cognex Corp.

Lecture #14 April 5, 2001
    Midterm

Lecture #15 April 10, 2001 [PDF 10 kB]

Lecture #16 April 12, 2001

Lecture #17 April 19, 2001

Lecture #18 April 24, 2001 Jen's Notes [HTML 22 kB] [PDF 8 kB]
    Jen's Presentation [PDF 38 kB] [PPT 185 kB]
   Guest Lecturer: Officer Jack Skinner (Composite Artist)

Lecture #19 April 26, 2001

Lecture #20 May 1, 2001
    Guest Lecturer: John Doherty, caricaturist

Lecture #21 May 3, 2001 Janice's Notes
    Guest Lecturer: CEO of Viisage, Thomas J. Colatosti

Lecture #22 May 10, 2001
    Sinha Lab Projects

Lecture #23 May 15, 2001
    Student Presentations #1

Lecture #24 May 17, 2001
    Student Presentations #2

Announcements

• 4/25/2001 Questions update:
      4/19 class: charisse@mit.edu
      4/24 class: jcshieh@mit.edu 

• 4/12/2001 No class on Tuesday, April 17

• 4/12/2001 Questions update:
      4/10 class: liina@mit.edu
      4/12 class: rprather@mit.edu 

• 3/22/2001 Questions update:
      3/22 class: beckin@mit.edu

• 3/20/2001 Don't forget to talk about your PROJECT with Prof. Sinha soon! Also, past scribes should send a summary of questions you've received to faces@psyche.mit.edu.

• 3/20/2001 Questions update:
      3/8 class: thorek@mit.edu (Keith Thoresz)
      3/13 class: sinha@ai.mit.edu
      3/15 NO CLASS
      3/20 class: rrussell@mit.edu

• 3/7/2001 Questions update:
      3/1 class: jodi@mit.edu
      3/6 class: amrys@mit.edu

• 2/27/2001 Send your class questions to the following addresses (see syllabus to refresh your memory of the subject matter on a particular date):
      2/15 class: sinha@ai.mit.edu (Prof. Sinha)
      2/22 class: bule@mit.edu (Liu Jia)
      2/27 class: sadr@mit.edu (Javid Sadr)

• 2/25/2001 Class will meet in E25-202 from now on.

• 2/15/2001 No class next Tuesday (2/20/2001). Class will meet in the usual location (4-149) next Thursday, but there may be a classroom change starting the following week.

• 2/13/2001 Send three questions (1 research question, 1 short answer question, and 1 multiple choice question) to the presenters (2/13 presenter: yo@mit.edu; 2/8 presenter: mc@mit.edu) about their presentations.

• 2/7/2001 If you missed the handouts from a class, pick them up from Prof. Sinha's office (E25-229)