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CS 5650/6650
Visual Perception from a Computer Graphics and Visualization Perspective

Syllabus -- fall 2016

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Last updated 9/23/2016
Schedule is subject to change!

Readings are from W.B. Thompson, R.W. Fleming,  S.H. Creem-Regehr, and J.K. Stefanucci, Visual Perception from a Computer Graphics Perspective,  A K Peters, 2011.

week	date
1	8/22	Overview
	8/24	Visual Sensitivity	Chapters 1, 2
2	8/29	Visual Sensitivity (continued), Introduction to Fourier analysis
	8/31	2-D Image Features	Chapter 3
3	9/5	Labor Day!
	9/7	Color	Chapter 4
4	9/12	2-D Motion	Chapter 5
	9/14	Stereo and Accommodation	Chapter 6
5	9/19	Discussion of low-level visual perception,
	9/21	Perspective	Chapter 7
6	9/26	Presentations
	9/28	Texture	Chapter 8
7	10/3	Illumination, Shading, and Shadows	Chapter 9
	10/5	Presentations
	10/10	Fall Break!
	10/12	Fall Break!
8	10/17	no class
	10/19	Perception of Material Properties	Chapter 10
9	10/24	Motion of Objects and Viewpoint	Chapter 11
	10/26	Presentations
10	10/31	Pictorial Space	Chapter 12
	11/2	Discussion of mid-level vision
11	11/7	Spatial Orientation and Spatial Cognition	Chapter 13
	11/9	Presentations
12	11/14	Perception and Action	Chapter 14
	11/16	Object Recognition	Chapter 15
13	11/21	Presentations
	11/23	Visual Attention and Search	Chapter 16
14	11/28	Event Recognition -- Inanimate	Chapter 17
	11/30	Event Recognition -- Biological	Chapter 18
15	12/5	Presentations
	12/7	Discussion of high-level vision, wrap up

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