CMPT742: Practices in visual computing 1, Fall 2026

Schedule

Week 1
Topic
Materials
Assignments and Deadlines
Mon, Sep 14
Logistics, Image processing, Seam carving
Slides #0 Slides #1
Fri, Sep 18
Python tutorial
Slides Codes

Week 2
Mon, Sep 21
Image inpainting (Laplace, Poisson), Graph-based segmentation
Slides - Inpainting
Slides - Graph-based Segmentation
Assignment #1 - PDF
Assignment #1 - ZIP
Fri, Sep 25
Numpy tutorial, OpenCV tutorial
Slides Codes

Week 3
Mon, Sep 28
Introduction to machine learning
Slides - Machine Learning Intro Slides - How to present

Fri, Oct 2
A1 tutorial
Image Reconstruction Poisson Blending
Week 4
Mon, Oct 5
CNNs, Image classification, UNet
Slides - Classification Slides - UNet
Assignment #1 deadline
Fri, Oct 9
PyTorch tutorial - part 1
ML Algorithms Pytorch Basics: Part 1
Project proposal deadline
Week 5
Mon, Oct 12
Thanksgiving, no lecture
Assignment #2 - PDF
Assignment #2 - ZIP
Fri, Oct 16
Image Classification 1
Classification: Part 1
Week 6
Mon, Oct 19
Object Detection
Slides #1 Slides #2
Assignment #3 - PDF
Assignment #3 - ZIP
Fri, Oct 23
Object Detection 1
Object Detection: Part 1

Week 7
Mon, Oct 26
Project Milestones

Fri, Oct 30
Image Classification 2
Slides Notebooks
Week 8
Mon, Nov 2
PCA, SVD, Quiz 1
Slides - PCA
Slides - SVD
Assignment #2 deadline
Fri, Nov 6
Image Segmentation 1
Slides Notebooks
Week 9
Mon, Nov 9
3D reconstruction
Slides - 3D reconstruction
Assignment #4 - PDF
Assignment #4 - ZIP
Fri, Nov 13
Keypoint detection, SIFT, Ransac
Keypoints & RANSAC
Week 10
Mon, Nov 16
Catch up
Fri, Nov 20
Image Segmentation 2
Slides Notebooks
Week 11
Mon, Nov 23
Curves, Geometry processing
Slides - Curves
Slides - Geometry Processing
Assignment #3 deadline
Wed, Nov 25 10:30-1:20 @ SECB 1010
Object Detection 2
Fri, Nov 27
Lecture: Geometry Processing (Cont), Quiz 2
Slides Notebooks
Week 12
Mon, Nov 30
No lecture! Siggraph Asia.
Fri, Dec 4
Online Tutorial

Week 13
Wed, Dec 9
Project final presentation
Fri, Dec 11
Project Delivery
Mon, Dec 14
Project final written submission
Assignment #4 deadline
Fri, Dec 18

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