16-627: MSCV Seminar

(Only open to MSCV students.) MSCV students will be required to participate in this one-semester seminar course which will prepare them for the MSCV project starting in the Spring semester. The first part of this course will cover talks by computer vision and related faculty about the ongoing research, development programs related to Computer Vision at CMU. The second part of this course will include student/faculty tutorial on topics such as OpenCV, Dataset Creation, and Mechanical Turk. The goal of this series is to get students acquainted with practical knowledge for a successful project. In the last month of the course, each lecture will cover upto four possible MSCV projects pitched by faculty or industrial sponsors. At the end of the course students will turn in their choices, and a faculty committee will assign them the final projects.

Schedule

Date	Speakers/Topic
September 01	Introduction Mechanical Turk Tutorial
September 08	Resume Session
September 10	Job Fair Session
September 15	Stephen Nuske Fernando De La Torres
September 22	Yaser Sheikh Sidd Srinivasa
October 1	Leonid Sigal Martial Hebert
October 06	Srinivasa Narasimhan Aswin Sankaranarayanan
October 13	Louis-Phillipe Morency Abhinav Gupta
October 20	Kayvon Fatahalian Deva Ramanan
October 27	Simon Lucey Kris Kitani
November 03	Evan Nisselson (Entrepreneurship)
November 10	Capstone Projects 1
November 17	Capstone Projects 2
November 24	OpenCV Tutorial RGBD Tutorial?

Requirements

Students are required to submit five half-page summaries of faculty talks.

The course will also require students to develop a project proposal which introduces a novel way computer vision can be used (a new application area)/a new research idea/a possible project idea. This will be presented in last class (2-3 min presentations for each team, team of 2 students).