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Week
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Date
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Topic
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Lecture Notes |
| 1 |
Wednesday
9/24 |
Introductions/Administravia/Discussion of Projects |
C2000
Slides |
| 2 |
Monday
9/29 |
What is computational perception?
Readings:
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Essa, I "Computational Perception for Intelligent
and Interactive Systems", 1996 *Not for redistribution* (Handed Out)
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Pentland, A. "Smart
Rooms". Scientific American, 274(4) pp. 68-76. April 1996
Discuss Projects |
C2000
Slides |
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Wednesday
10/1 |
Gestures and Language
Readings:
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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.
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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: |
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Wednesday
10/8 |
Pattern Analysis, using vision.
Readings:
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| 4 |
Monday
10/13 |
Irfan Essa away to Wearcon
Identify Alternate Class date |
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Wednesday
10/15 |
Irfan Essa away to Wearcon
Identify Alternate Class date |
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| 5 |
Monday
10/20 |
Irfan Essa away to PUI
97
Identify Alternate Class date
Project Proposals Due: 10/21/1997 @ 5pm |
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Wednesday
10/22 |
Pattern Recognition
Discussion of Casey &Wachman and Starner & Pentland Papers |
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| 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. |
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Wednesday
10/29 |
Learning Methods
Conitinued from Last class. |
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10/29-11/11 |
Early Registration for Winter 1998
(Oscar
Web) |
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| 7 |
Monday
11/3 |
Motion-based Recognition
Reading:
Cedras and Shah, "Motion-based recognition: a sruvey", A shorter version
appeared in CVPR 1994. |
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Wednesday
11/5 |
Gesture and Action Recognition
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Darrell, T., I. Essa, and A. Pentland. "Task-specific
Gesture Modeling using Interpolated Views." In, IEEE Transactions on
Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Volume 18 (12), pp. 1236--1242,
IEEE Computer Society Press, December 1996.
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Wilson, A., and A. F. Bobick "Learning
Visual Behavior for Gesture Analysis", In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium
on Computer Vision, Coral Gables, Florida, November 20-22, 1995.
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Firday
11/7
*Alternate Class* |
Expression Recognition
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| 8 |
Monday
11/10 |
Action/Movement Recognition
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Discussion of Projects
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Aaron Bobick "Movement,
Activity, and Action: The Role of Knowledge in the Perception of Motion",
In Proceedings of Royal Society: Special Issue on Knowledge-based Vision
in Man and Machine
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R. Mann, A. Jepson, and J.M. Siskind, "The
Computational Perception of Scene Dynamics", Proc. 4th European Conf.
on Computer Vision, Cambridge, April 1996, pp. 528-539.
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Wednesday
11/12 |
Action and Behavior
Preliminary Report #1 Due
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Discussion of Projects
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Continued Discussion on Mon 11/10 papers
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F. Heider and M. Simmel, "An Ecperimental Study of Apparent Behavior",
American Journal of Psychology, 57, pp 243--259, 1944
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R. Thibadeau, "Artificial Perception of Actions", Cognitive Science 10,
pp 117-149. 1986
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| 9 |
Monday
11/17 |
Attention Mechanisms
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Wednesday
11/19 |
Speech Recognition (Words)
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D. R. Reddy "Speech Recognition by Machine: A Review", In IEEE Proceedings
64(4) pp 502--531, April 1976
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| 10 |
Monday
11/24 |
Speech Recogntion/Synthesis (Non-verbal) s
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Work on Projects *CHANGE*
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Wednesday
11/26 |
System Integration
Preliminary Report #2 Due
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Work on Projects *CHANGE*
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| 11 |
Monday
12/1 |
Other senses
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K. E. Cummings and M. A. Clements "Analysis of the glottal excitation of
emotionally styled and stressed speech", J. Accoustical Society of America,
98(1) July 1995.
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J. Cahn, "The
Generation of Affect in Synthesized Speech" , In Journal of the American
Voice I/O Society, Volume 8. July, 1990. Pages 1-19.
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James W. Davis, "Virtual
PAT: A Virtual Personal Aerobics Trainer", 1997
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Aaron Bobick, Stephen Intille, Jim Davis, Freedom Baird, Claudio Pinhanez,
Lee Campbell, Yuri Ivanov, Arjan Schutte, Andy Wilson "The
KidsRoom: A Perceptually-Based Interactive and Immersive Story Environment"
1996
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R. W. Picard "Affective
Computing", 1995 (Published as a book by MIT Press 1997)
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Wednesday
12/3 |
Final Project Presentations
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| 12 |
Tuesday
12/9 |
Final Report Due. (Also, please email me a description
of your contributions to the project). |
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