What is Recluse
ReCluSe is a self-help reading group where everybody is supposed to contribute with
questions, answers, comments and observations. See
Instructions for further details.
ReCluSe Current Status
ReCluSe started again with
Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision from R. Hartley and Andrew Zisserman. The list of assignments:
| Due Date |
Assignment |
| 30 Nov 2010 |
Read Chapter 1 (Introduction) of the main book |
| 6 Dec 2010 |
Read until 2.4.4 included (page 41) of the main book |
| 1 Feb 2011 |
Read from 4.2.2 to 4.6 of the main book |
| 8 Feb 2011 |
Read up to page 127 of the main book |
| 15 Feb 2011 |
Read chapter 6 of the main book |
| 8 Mar 2011 |
Read pages 166-177 of the main book |
| 15 Mar 2011 |
Read chapter 7 of the main book |
| 24 Mar 2011 |
Read chapter 8 of the main book |
| 5 Apr 2011 |
Read pages 239-259 of the main book |
| 12 Apr 2011 |
Read chapter 10 of the main book |
| 3 May 2011 |
Read pages 279-292 of the main book |
| 10 May 2011 |
Read section 11.12 and the whole chapter 12 |
| 17 May 2011 |
Read chapter 13 |
| 24 May 2011 |
Read pages 364-390 |
| 7 Jun 2011 |
Read the rest of chapter 15 and chapter 16 |
Instructions
A book is selected by the ReCluSe participants. Every member of ReCluSe can propose a book to read.
When one book has been completed, a new voting takes place and a new book is selected. It might happen that instead of
one book a selection of chapters from multiple book is chosen as the reading material.
ReCluSe IS NOT a lecture. Participants are supposed to read the part of the week
before the meeting. At the meeting we won't read the part, but go
through it page by page, and stop whenever there is a question
from a member of the group. The idea is that when someone did not
understand a point, he stops the flow and asks a question. Chances are,
that someone else understood that point, and can answer. Ideally, this
will cause the collective understanding to be the 'set union' of the
individual's understanding.
Attendance is entirely optional. It can happen that a particular book that is chosen is of no interest
to you. Therefore you might not participate to the meetings until the book is completed and a new one is sleected.
However, you should vote for a book only if you think you can make time to attend the meetings in case your book
is selected.
Mailing List
If you want to participate to ReCluSe,
please send an email to ReCluSe-request@list.ee.ethz.ch with subject "subscribe"
and an empty body.
Where and When
ReCluSe currently takes place every Tuesday in room ETF/C109 at 13:00 ( + academic quarter). Meetings might be suspended
in some circumstances (e.g. holidays, deadlines). You will be reminded of meetings through
the
mailing list.
Completed Sessions
This is the list of ReCluSe sessions that we completed during past recluse meetings:
Dimensionality Reduction 04/2009 - 04/2009
A short tutorial on dimensionality reduction link
Gaussian Processes 01/2009 - 04/2009
"Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning", by C. Rasmussen and K. Williams
List of assignments for Linear and Non-Linear Optimization:
Main book refers to "Luenberger D.G., Ye Y.
Linear and nonlinear programming (3ed., Springer,
2008) (ISBN 0387745025)"
| Due Date |
Assignment |
| 12 Jan 2010 |
Read first two chapters (until page 27) of the main book |
| 19 Jan 2010 |
Read chapter 3 up to section 3.4 (included) |
| 26 Jan 2010 |
Finish chapter 3 |
| 2 Feb 2010 |
Read up to section 4.4 included. |
| 9 Feb 2010 |
Read up to section 4.6 included. |
| 16 Feb 2010 |
Read "Filter Flow" paper. |
| 23 Feb 2010 |
Finish "Filter Flow" paper. |
| 27 Feb 2010 - 16 Mar 2010 |
ECCV break. |
| 23 Mar 2010 |
Read up to section 5.5 included. |
| 30 Mar 2010 |
Finish chapter 5 . |
| 6 April 2010 |
Easter break . |
| 13 April 2010 |
Read Section 5.1-5.4
(including) of the Boyd and Vandneberghe book "Convex Optimization" ISBN-10: 0521833787.
Although it is not strictly necessary to follow the discussion on the read material,
you might want to take a look at these lectures on the topic by the author himself:
1
2 |
| 20 April 2010 |
Read Sections 5.2-5.5 and 5.7 |
| 27 April 2010 |
As we did not finish the assignement last week, read 5.3.3 and 5.5. and 5.7 for this Tuesday |
| 4 May 2010 |
Overview from the Bertsekas book "Nonlinear Programming" ISBN: 1-886529-00-0 (p 22-33)
|
| 11 May 2010 |
a) Trust Region Methods (p 95-97 from the Bertsekas book "Nonlinear Programming")
b) Conjugate Direction Methods (p 130-145 from the Bertsekas book, probably skipping some of the proofs)
|
| 20 Jul 2010 |
Bogdan will take us into the beautiful world of Semidefinite Programming. Read pagg. 49-62 (included) of this paper
|
| 27 Jul 2010 |
Still on Semidefinite Programming. Read pagg. 63-70 (included) of this paper
|
| 3 Aug 2010 |
Still on Semidefinite Programming.
Bogdan will present the following paper:
"Object Detection via Boundary Structure Segmentation" - (toshev10cvpr.pdf)
Sections Of Interest: Section 3 and beginning of Section 4 (until
Discretization.) (2.5 pages in total)
Daniel will present the following paper:
"Multi-Class Object Localization by Combining Local Contextual
Interactions (mklmnn_cvpr.pdf)
Section Of interest: Section 3.1 (0.5 pages).
Vitto will present the following paper:
"Binary Partitioning, Perceptual Grouping, and Restoration with
Semidefinite Programming" (keuchel03pami.pdf)
Sections Of Interest: Section 2 (whole), Section 3.0 (i.e. the bit of
text until 3.1) + 3.1, Section 4.2.2 + 4.2.3 + 4.2.4 (4 pages in total)
|
| 10 Aug 2010 |
Still on Semidefinite Programming.
1. Vitto will finish presenting the paper "Binary Partitioning,
Perceptual Grouping, and Restoration with
Semidefinite Programming" (keuchel03pami.pdf). He will continue from
section 3.1.
Sections Of Interest: Section 2 (whole), Section 3.0 (i.e. the bit of
text until 3.1) + 3.1, Section 4.2.2 + 4.2.3 + 4.2.4 (4 pages in total)
2. Daniel will present the following paper:
"Multi-Class Object Localization by Combining Local Contextual
Interactions"
Section Of interest: Section 3.1 (0.5 pages).
3. We have another volunteer: Mukta! She will present the following paper:
"An Exploration of Semidefinite Programming Applied to Rigid Motion
Factorization"
Sections Of Interest: Section 2 and 3 (2.5 pages in total).
|
| 17 and 24 Aug 2010 |
break
|
| 31 Aug 2010 |
Quadratic Programming : an easy introductory session.
We will read (Vitto leading) the Boyd's
book from page 152 to 160.
|
| 21 Set 2010 |
Mixed Integer Programming, from Applied Integer Programming, Chen et. al. , ISBN 0470373067.
Read 3-5, 30-33, 271-286.
|
| 28 Set 2010 |
Concluding session with cheat-sheet.
|
List of assignments for Discrete Energy Minimization in Computer Vision:
| Due Date |
Assignment |
| 5 May 2009 |
introduction and [8.4 - 8.4.2] of Bishop's Book
|
| 12 May 2009 |
[8.4.3 - 8.4.4] of Bishop's Book |
| 19 May 2009 |
Finish chapter 8 of Bishop's Book and Sections 1 and 2 of Pictorial Structures paper |
| 26 May 2009 |
Finish Pictorial Structures paper |
| 02 June 2009 |
Break for NIPS |
| 10 June 2009 |
Read Distance Transform paper |
| 15 June 2009 |
Graph-Cut: first 37 slides of the eccv2008 tutorial |
| 23 June 2009 |
Break for CVPR |
| 30 June 2009 |
An advanced Graph-Cut Algorithm Boykov Paper ( see mailing list for link to paper ) |
| 7 July 2009 |
Boykov's paper on approximate energy minimization with Graph Cuts. Read until Section 6 Included |
| 14 July 2009 |
Finish Boykov's paper on approximate energy minimization with Graph Cuts. |
| 21 July 2009 |
Kolmogorov's TRW: link to paper . Read until section 3.1 (included) |
| 28 July 2009 |
Kolmogorov's TRW: link to paper . Read until section 3.2 (included) |
| 4 August 2009 |
Kolmogorov's TRW: link to paper . No new assignment, see old one |
| 11 August 2009 |
Kolmogorov's TRW: link to paper . Read sections 4, 5, and 6 |
| 18 August 2009 |
Summer School Break |
| 25 August 2009 |
Read "A Comparative Study of Energy Minimization Methods for Markov Random Fields with Smoothness-Based Priors" link to paper . read the entire paper with a focus on sections 2, 4, 5, and 6. |
| 15 September 2009 |
Concluding meeting for this session! link to slides |
| 1 December 2009 |
After Discrete Energy Minimization 1 : Discriminative Models for Multi-Class Object Layout link to paper |
| 8 December 2009 |
After Discrete Energy Minimization 2 : QPBO
link to paper |
| 15 December 2009 |
After Discrete Energy Minimization 3 : Dual Decomposition link to paper |
Proposed Books For Future Sessions
These are the books that have been proposed so far. You will be given instruction on how and when to vote
with an email (see
Mailing list)
| Book |
Conjectures |
| Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning - C. Bishop.
link
|
Everybody knows it |
| Learning in Graphical Models - M. Jordan
link
|
Edited book, quite advanced. Thomas conjectured that "at least the tutorial chapters seem to be well written, and nearly all of it is available online" review |
| Elements of Information Theory - T.M. Cover
link
|
Suggested by Buhmann. |
| Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms - D. MacKay
link
|
Suggested by Katya, that in a personal communication conjectured : "I looked at
couple of thing there before and found explanations quite nice. There
are several maps in preface suggesting chapters to read and
dependencies" |
| Multiple View Geometry in computer vision - R. Hartley and A. Zisserman
link
|
... |
| Predicting structured data - Several Autors
link
|
Thomas conjectured that "it is not a textbook and the chapters are only
loosely coupled" |
