| Date | Topic | Presenter | Demo | Papers | Items due | Slides |
| 18-Jan | Course overview | |||||
| 25-Jan | Background in recognition, local feature models | Sivic et al. 2003 | ||||
| Fergus et al. 2003 | ||||||
| 1-Feb | Visual vocabularies | Joseph | Xin | Nowak et al. 2006 | pres | |
| Nister et al. 2006 | demo | |||||
| Moosmann et al. 2006 | ||||||
| 8-Feb | Image and video retargeting | Harshdeep | Adrian | Kwatra et al. 2003 | pres | |
| Wolf et al. 2007 | demo | |||||
| Avidan et al. 2007 | ||||||
| 15-Feb | Learning about images from keyword-based Web search | David | Dongliang | van de Weijer et al. 2007 | pres | |
| Yeh et al. 2004 | demo | |||||
| Fergus et al. 2005 | ||||||
| 22-Feb | Fast indexing methods | Dongliang | Marc | Fraundorfer et al. 2007 | pres | |
| Athitsos et al. 2006 | demo | |||||
| Shakhnarovich et al. 2003 | ||||||
| 29-Feb | Faces; initial proposal discussions | Newton | Harshdeep | Viola and Jones 2001 | pres | |
| Maysam | Arandjelovic and Cipolla 2006 | demo-faces | ||||
| demo-datasets | ||||||
| 7-Mar | Text/speech and images/video | Sonal | Joo Hyun | Duygulu et al. 2002 | Project proposal 3/7 | pres |
| Everingham et al. 2006 | demo | |||||
| 14-Mar | Spring break, no class | Proposal reviews 3/12 | ||||
| 21-Mar | Exploring images in 3d | Maysam | Jaechul | Snavely et al. 2006 | pres | |
| demo | ||||||
| 28-Mar | Context and background knowledge in recognition | Adrian | Joseph | Torralba 2003 | pres | |
| demo | ||||||
| 4-Apr | Learning distance functions | Xin | David | Frome et al. 2007 | pres | |
| demo | ||||||
| 11-Apr | Detecting abnormal events / video summarization | Jaechul / Ben | Ben | Zhong et al. 2004 | pres | |
| Pritch et al. 2007 | pres | |||||
| 18-Apr | Place recognition and kidnapped robots | Joo Hyun | Sonal | Se et al. 2005 | Rough drafts due 4/18 | pres |
| demo | ||||||
| 25-Apr | Shape matching; discussion of rough draft reviews | Marc | Newton | Belongie et al. 2002 | Reviews on drafts 4/23 | pres |
| [instructions] | demo | |||||
| 2-May | Last day of class: project presentations | Final papers 5/2 | ||||
| Paper reviews are due each week on Thursday by 10 PM. | ||||||