Example question for A4M33MPV course
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Describe the algorithm for Harris points detection. Which parameters it has? How they influence the number of detected points? To which transformation (geometric/photometric) is this detector invariant?
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Describe the choice of scale using Laplacian.
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Describe steps to generalize Harriss detector to become affine invariant.
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Define Maximally Stable Extremal Regions (MSER). Describe the algorithm for their detection.
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Descriptor SIFT. Describe the algorithm and its properties.
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Describe the “Shape context” descriptor.
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Describe “Local Binary Patterns” like descriptors.
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How are local affine frames used for invariant description?
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Describe the steps for obtaining correspondences between a pair of images, which are taken from different viewpoints (wide-baseline matching).
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How to find similar descriptors in a sub-linear time?
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How does the “bag-of-words” method work?
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What is the “inverted file” and how it is used for the image retrieval?
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Define the tf-idf reweighting for visual words.
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Describe the “query expansion” mechanism for improving the recall of the image retrieval.
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Describe how the min-Hash method describes the images. Which properties it has?
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Describe the RANSAC algorithm, its properties, advantages and disadvantages. Which parameters it has?
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Describe some of the novel improvements to RANSAC method (WaldSac, PROSAC).
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Describe the steps for object detection using “sliding windows” (“scanning windows”). How is the reasonable speed achieved?
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Describe how to use an integral image for computing the sum of intensity function for rectangular region.
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Why is the Adaboost algorithm often used for the “sliding window” methods? Give more than one good reason.
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Describe the Hough transformation algorithm for detection or parametrized structure (line, circle, …). Discuss the properties of the algorithm (time and memory requirements, parameters).
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Compare the Hough transformation with a brute-force space search algorithm.
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Compare the Hough transformation with RANSAC.
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For the problem of image patch search in an image (“patch matching”). Give some criterion functions and discuss their complexity, differentiability, etc….
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For a static scene and viewing by camera with only horizontal movement. Draw a image patch, which will be useful for a tracking using a gradient method (KLT tracker). Which properties should has such image patch to be suitable for tracking?
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Which image patches are suitable for tracking by gradient method such as KLT tracker? Why? Which patches are not suitable or totaly useless?
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Mean-shift algorithm. Describe the principles and simulate calculation for 1D example.
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Mean-shift algorithm. Color pixels [R,G,B] represented in 3D space. How you can reduce the color-space into 256 color-space?
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