CS8113g: Schedule


**TENTATIVE**
Official Georgia Tech Calendar for Fall 1997
Meeting Time: 4:30p-6:00p
Location: CoC 102
 
 
Week 
Date 
Topic 
Lecture Notes
Wednesday 
9/24
Introductions/Administravia/Discussion of Projects C2000 Slides
2 Monday 
9/29
What is computational perception? 
Readings:  
  • Essa, I "Computational Perception for Intelligent and Interactive Systems", 1996 *Not for redistribution* (Handed Out) 
  • Pentland, A. "Smart Rooms". Scientific American, 274(4) pp. 68-76. April 1996 
Discuss Projects
C2000 Slides
Wednesday 
10/1
Gestures and Language 
Readings: 
  • Cassell, J. "A Framework for Gesture Generation and Interpretation", In Computer Vision in Human-Machine Interaction, R. Cipolla and A. Pentland, eds. Cambridge University Press, in press. 1997. 
  • McNeill, D. "Images Inside Out", Chapter 1 in Hand and Mind: What gestures reveal about thought. U, of Chicago Press, 1992 (Handed out) 
Finalize Projects and Project Teams
C2000 Slides
3 Monday 
10/6
Project Meetings:
Wednesday 
10/8 
Pattern Analysis, using vision. 

Readings: 

Monday 
10/13 
Irfan Essa away to Wearcon 
Identify Alternate Class date
Wednesday 
10/15
Irfan Essa away to Wearcon 
Identify Alternate Class date
5 Monday 
10/20
 Irfan Essa away to PUI 97 
Identify Alternate Class date 
Project Proposals Due: 10/21/1997 @ 5pm
Wednesday 
10/22
Pattern Recognition 
Discussion of Casey &Wachman and Starner & Pentland Papers
6 Monday 
10/27
Hidden Markov Models 
Readings: 
Rabiner and Juang. "An Introduction to Hidden Markov Models", IEEE ASSP Magazine, Jan 1988 
Rabiner, "A Tutorial on Hidden Markov Models and Selected Applications in Speech Recognition", Proc. of IEEE, 77(2) February 1989.
Wednesday 
10/29 
Learning Methods 
Conitinued from Last class.
10/29-11/11 Early Registration for Winter 1998 
(Oscar Web)
Monday 
11/3 
Motion-based Recognition 
Reading: 
Cedras and Shah, "Motion-based recognition: a sruvey", A shorter version appeared in CVPR 1994.
Wednesday 
11/5 
Gesture and Action Recognition 
Firday 
11/7 
*Alternate Class* 
Expression Recognition 
Monday 
11/10 
Action/Movement Recognition 
Wednesday 
11/12 
Action and Behavior 

Preliminary Report #1 Due 

  • Discussion of Projects 
  • Continued Discussion on Mon 11/10 papers 
  • F. Heider and M. Simmel, "An Ecperimental Study of Apparent Behavior", American Journal of Psychology, 57, pp 243--259, 1944 
  • R. Thibadeau, "Artificial Perception of Actions", Cognitive Science 10, pp 117-149. 1986 
9 Monday 
11/17
Attention Mechanisms 
Wednesday 
11/19 
Speech Recognition (Words) 
  • D. R. Reddy "Speech Recognition by Machine: A Review", In IEEE Proceedings 64(4) pp 502--531, April 1976 
10 Monday 
11/24
Speech Recogntion/Synthesis (Non-verbal) s 
  • Work on Projects *CHANGE*
Wednesday 
11/26
System Integration 
Preliminary Report #2 Due 
  •  Work on Projects *CHANGE*
11 Monday 
12/1
Other senses 
Wednesday 
12/3
Final Project Presentations 
 
12 Tuesday
12/9
Final Report Due. (Also, please email me a description of your contributions to the project).

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