Chenliang Xu

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Fall 2019 - CSC 577: Advanced Topics in Computer Vision

Time/Place: TR 09:40-10:55 in 315 B&L 205 Meliora

Instructor: Prof. Chenliang Xu
Office Hours: see my homepage

TA: Lele Chen
Office Hours: WF 11:10-noon in 4205 Wegmans Hall

The syllabus is below.

Description

This course covers advanced research topics in computer vision with an emphasis on learning structured representations and embeddings. Approaches for learning from unimodal (e.g., images and videos), and multimodal data (e.g., vision and language, vision and audio) will be covered and include topics from structured predications, deep learning and others. The course will be a mix of lecture, student presentation and discussion. Prerequisites: CSC 249/449 or CSC 246/446 or CSC 298/578 (Deep Learning and Graphical Models) or permission of the instructor.


Goals

PhD Students: gain research experience in computer vision; MS Students: get prepared for a software engineer career in computer vision and artificial intelligence.

Piazza

Find our class page here.


Schedule

This is a tentative schedule of the course.
Course materials will be posted on Blackboard.
Red: lecture; Blue: student presentation; Green: project presentation; Grey: no class or cancelled class.

W Date Topic Presenter
1 R 8/29 Overview, Boot Camp: Neural Networks Instructor
2 T 9/3 Boot Camp: Convolutional Neural Networks Instructor
2 R 9/5 Boot Camp: Recurrent Neural Networks Instructor
3 T 9/10 Tutorial: PyTorch, Google Cloud, Training GANs TA
3 R 9/12 Chen et al. CVPR 2019: Hierarchical Cross-modal Talking Face Generation with Dynamic Pixel-wise Loss TA
4 T 9/17 Selvaraju et al. ICCV 2017: Grad-CAM: Visual Explanations from Deep Networks via Gradient-based Localization Guofeng, Haomin
4 R 9/19 Fong and Vedaldi ICCV 2017: Interpretable Explanations of Black Boxes by Meaningful Perturbation Max, Tushar
5 T 9/24 Bau et al. ICLR 2019: GAN Dissection: Visualizing and Understanding Generative Adversarial Networks Sizhe, Zhaoxiong
5 R 9/26 Liu et al. CVPR 2019: Auto-DeepLab: Hierarchical Neural Architecture Search for Semantic Image Segmentation Guo, Ibrahim
6 T 10/1 Xie et al. ICCV 2019: Exploring Randomly Wired Neural Networks for Image Recognition Nageswara, Xiaoning
6 R 10/3 Cubuk et al. CVPR 2019: AutoAugment: Learning Augmentation Policies from Data Tushar, Zhenfei
7 T 10/8 Shevlev and Avidan CVPR 2019: Co-Occurrence Neural Network Max, Zhaoxiong
7 R 10/10 Li et al. CVPR 2019: Finding Task-Relevant Features for Few-Shot Learning by Category Traversal Jianyuan, Purvanshi
8 T 10/15 Fall Break
8 R 10/17 Wang et al. CVPR 2019: TAFE-Net: Task-Aware Feature Embeddings for Low Shot Learning Guofeng, Sizhe
9 T 10/22 Alfassy et al. CVPR 2019: LaSO: Label-Set Operations networks for multi-label few-shot learning Xiaoning, Zhenfei
9 R 10/24 Wu et al. CVPR 2019: Large Scale Incremental Learning Ibrahim, Max
10 T 10/29 Tung et al. CVPR 2019: Learning Spatial Common Sense with Geometry-Aware Recurrent Networks Guo, Haomin
10 R 10/31 Li et al. ICCV 2019: Expectation-Maximization Attention Networks for Semantic Segmentation Nageswara, Sizhe
11 T 11/5 Zellers et al. CVPR 2018: Neural motifs: Scene graph parsing with global context Jianyuan, Zhaoxiong
11 R 11/7 Kolkin et al. CVPR 2019: Style Transfer by Relaxed Optimal Transport and Self-Similarity Ibrahim, Xiaoning
12 T 11/12 Wu et al. ArXiv 2019: A Comprehensive Survey on Graph Neural Networks Max, Purvanshi
12 R 11/14 Wang et al. CVPR 2019: Learning Correspondence from the Cycle-Consistency of Time Haomin, Zhenfei
13 T 11/19 Dwibedi et al. CVPR 2019: Temporal Cycle-Consistency Learning Jianyuan, Nageswara
13 R 11/21 Sun et al. ICCV 2019: VideoBERT: A Joint Model for Video and Language Representation Learning Guo, Tushar
14 T 11/26 Zellers et al. CVPR 2019: From Recognition to Cognition: Visual Commonsense Reasoning Guofeng, Purvanshi
14 R 11/28 Thanksgiving Recess
15 T 12/3 Mao et al. ICLR 2019: The Neuro-Symbolic Concept Learner: Interpreting Scenes, Words, and Sentences from Natural Supervision Sizhe, Zhenfei
15 R 12/5 Project Presentation
Group 1: Purvanshi, Max, Guo, Sizhe, Tushar, Xiaoning, Zhenfei
16 T 12/10 Project Presentation
Group 2: Guofeng, Ibrahim, Jianyuan, Negaswara, Zhaoxiong

Work and Grade

All assignments should be submitted on Blackboard and no late work will be accepted.


Textbooks: There are no required textbooks. We will read papers from CVPR, NIPS etc.

Code of Conduct: Check here for classroom "etiquette" expectations.

Academic honesty: All assignments and activities associated with this course must be performed in accordance with the University of Rochester's Academic Honesty Policy. More information is available at here. You are expected to read, understand and follow the policy.

Disabilities: If you need an accommodation based on the impact of a disability, please contact me privately during the first two weeks to discuss your specific needs. Alternatively, contact Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at 585-275-9049 in room 1-154 Dewey Hall to coordinate reasonable accommodations.