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CSE/EE 576 Home Page;CSE/EE 576: Image Understanding;Welcome to the 576 Home Page!;This is the World Wide Web ("the Web" for short) hypermedia document;for CSE/EE 576 and contains information about the;class. Keep in mind that this document is not static, and that new;information (especially class messages) will be added frequently.;If you have any problems with this document, send mail to; mock@cs.;Copyright Notice: The material in this course web is subject;to copyright. While it may be viewed by the public,;it should not be installed at any web site other;than the one at the University of Washington.;Assignments;The first assignment is to read Chapter 1 of the course notes and do;exercise 5.;The second assignment is due Wednesday, April 5.;Read Chapter 2 of the course notes and do exercises 1-7.;Next, determine the most convenient way to;run KHOROS and CANTATA for you. In CSE it runs on Suns such as;Lillith.;Edit your local workstation's .login file to contain;xhost +lillith;Then add to you .cshrc file on the Suns the following:; setenv KHOROS_HOME /usr/local/khoros; setenv MANPATH /usr/local/khoros/man; set path=($KHOROS_HOME/bin $path);After an rlogin onto Lillith with your rhost assignments;and DISPLAY environment variable set up appropriately, type;cantata at the Unix prompt. In EE, the machine "george" has;KHOROS and CANTATA installed on it.;Also go to our course home page on the WWW;http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/576/index.html;and follow the links to the KHOROS/CANTATA tutorial. Go to its;course outline, to "experiments" and do at least the first two;topics ("Image information" and "Spatial Resolution").;The ideal way to take the tutorial is to read the web pages;and experiment with KHOROS in another X window.;There is nothing to turn in for this part of the assignment.;The third assignment is to read the article by Lin, Huertas, and;Nevatia on pp.62-69 of the CVPR'94 proceedings, and also to;look at the article by Wolff on pp.369-376.;The fourth assignment is due Monday, April 17. In this assignment,;we make a comparison of three image-processing software environments:;KHOROS, MSVC/C++ & "Image", and MATLAB Image Processing Toolbox.;The objects of the assignment;are (1) to gain some experience with each environment,;(2) to begin to get a feel for the strengths and weaknesses of;each of these environments, and (3) to explore the use of;convolution in noise suppression and edge detection.;In each environment: (a) select a monochrome test image.;(b) apply the Sobel operation to the test;image. (c) apply a moving average filter to the test image.;(d) apply a 3 by 3 laplacian to the test image.;(e) simulate gaussian smoothing with larger standard-deviation;gaussians by iteratively applying the moving average filter.;(f) apply the 3 by 3 laplacian to each gaussian-smoothed image.;(g) describe the results obtained in terms of changes in appearance;to objects and contours in the test image.;(h) describe the following aspects of the implementation:;what menu selections, direct manipulations, or programming you;had to do to perform the experiments; how fast the operations ran;;and level of learning effort required on your part.;Announcements;The final examination will be on Monday, June 5 from 2:30 to 4:20PM;in our regular class meeting room. The exam will cover a combination;of pre-midterm and post-midterm material.;Here is a list of topics to study.;Reminder: the class approved Sunday, June 4 from 1:30-2:30;as the time for the final-exam review meeting. The plan is to meet in;Sieg 422.;Outlines for selected class periods are available here:;Friday, 28 April.;Monday, 1 May.;Wednesday, 3 May.;Monday, 8 May.;Friday, 12 May.;Monday, 15 May.;Wednesday, 17 May.;Friday, 19 May.;Monday, 22 May.;Wednesday, 24 May.;Copies of the overhead transparencies for the May 22 and 24 lectures on;neural nets are available at the Engineering Library Copy Center (2nd floor);as CSE/EE 576 packet number 2 ("Trainable Classifiers").;Friday, 26 May.;Students in 576 are permitted to get a temporary copy of;MATLAB for their own use in the course. This will require;that you fill out a form and sign a contract.;Let me know if you are interested.;Term projects are an important part of;the course. These are to be started during the week of April 24.;Here are some corrections to the course notes.;On Friday, April 7, we were introduced to the Pentium laboratory, including;the MSVC/C++ software development environment.;Here is Evan McLain's document;explaining how to add a new transform to the Image application.;Here is;Current status of the KHOROS installation on the Suns.;It contains the most recent information about getting started with;Khoros and the accompanying DIP course.;Please read this.;No class on Friday, March 31 or Monday, April 3.;;Most students already have a computer account that can access;KHOROS and CANTATA. If you do not, contact Renee Reed on;Thursday or Friday to make an arrangement to pick up your;account login name and password so that you can use it;over the weekend and early next week. Renee's hours are;limited, so plan ahead. Her email address is reed@cs, and;she is in part of Sieg 127 (in a back office).;Sieg 127 is kept locked, so you will either need to knock or;have a prior arrangement to meet her.;Many of the account application cards were not signed. We will;have to take care of that next week.;Selected Lecture Slides; Monday, March 27.; Wednesday, March 29.;Information Resources for Image Understanding; An Online Intro to Image Processing with KHOROS/CANTATA; The Delft Univ. Pattern Recognition Information Page.; The Computer Vision Home Page (stored at CMU).;Other information; Home page for the;Department of Computer Science and Engineering;;Online version of the Computer Science undergraduate brochure;;Online version of the Computer Engineering undergraduate brochure;Mosaic Help:;If you're running Mosaic on a Mac, you can find some help items;under the Mac Balloon Help menu, and on the MacMosaic Home Page item;under the Navigate menu, and; here.;(Last Update: 31 May 1995);