Schedule (F18)

• Wed. 08/29. Introduction.
  Assignments: Assignment -1 out (set up your private GitLab repository according to the Set Up instructions in the README). Assignment 0 out.

• Fri. 08/31. Visual Perception: Projective Geometry & Pinhole Camera Model.
  Readings: [GBC] Ch. 2, [HZ] Ch. 3.1, 3.2, 6.2
  Assignments: GitLab account should be ready.

• Mon. 09/03. No class. (Labor Day) – We met the prior Friday.

• Wed. 09/05. Visual Perception: Stereo Matching & Active Depth Sensing.
  Readings: [HZ] Sec. 9, 10
  

• Mon. 09/10. Recursive State Estimation: Kalman Filters.
  Readings: [TBF] Sec. 1.2, 1.3.
  Assignments: Assignment 0 due. Assignment 1 out.

• Wed. 09/12. Visual Perception: Applications. (student presentations)
  Readings: RetroDepth; OmniTouch.
  

• Mon. 09/17. Recursive State Estimation: Non-Parametric Filters.
  Readings: [TBF] Sec. 1.4.

• Wed. 09/19. Recursive State Estimation: Applications. (student presentations)
  Readings: Monte Carlo Methods for Managing Interactive State, Action and Feedback; AnglePose
  

• Mon. 09/24. Function Approximation: Feed-Forward Neural Networks (NN).
  Readings: Stanford’s CS231n Notes (Module 1); [GBC] Ch. 11.
  Assignments: Assignment 1 due.

• Wed. 09/26. Function Approximation: Convolutional NN.
  Readings: Stanford’s CS321n Notes (Module 2, CNNs).
  Assignments: Assignment 2 out.

• Mon. 10/01. Function Approximation: NN Applications. (student presentations)
  Readings: YOLO; Multi-Person 2D Pose Estimation.

• Wed. 10/03. Function Approximation: Recurrent NN.
  Readings: [GBC] Ch. 10.

• Mon. 10/08. Sequential Decision Making: Markov Decision Processes.
  Readings: Markov Decision Processes: Concepts and Algorithms
  

• Wed. 10/10. Sequential Decision Making: Imitation Learning (IL).
  Readings: An Invitation to Imitation.

• Fri. 10/12. Not a regular meeting day
  Assignments: Assignment 2 due.

• Sun. 10/14. Not a regular meeting day
  Assignments: Assignment 3 out.

• Mon. 10/15. Sequential Decision Making: IL for Autonomous Driving. (student presentations)
  Readings: Agile Autonomous Driving; On Offline Evaluation of Vision-based Driving Models.
  

• Wed. 10/17. No class. (October Recess)
  

• Mon. 10/22. Video Lecture. (Ali Rahimi, “Let’s take machine learning from alchemy to electricity”).
  

• Wed. 10/24. Sequential Decision Making: IL for Robot Manipulation. (student presentations)
  Readings: Keyframe-based Learning from Demonstration; Neural Task Programming.

• Sun. 10/28. Not a regular meeting day (just an assignment due day)
  Assignments: Assignment 3 due.

• Mon. 10/29. Sequence Prediction Revisited. (student presentations)
  Readings: Inference Machines; Scheduled Sampling
  

• Wed. 10/31. Sequential Decision Making: Reinforcement Learning (RL)
  Readings: [SB 2nd Ed.] Ch. 6

• Fri. 11/02. Not a regular meeting day
  Assignments: Project proposal due.

• Mon. 11/05. Sequential Decision Making: RL for Games (student presentations)
  Readings: DQN; Mastering the Game of Go.
  

• Wed. 11/07. Sequential Decision Making: RL for Human-Robot Interaction. (student presentations)
  Readings: Modelling Empathy in Social Robotic Companions; Machine Learning for Social Multiparty Human–Robot Interaction.

• Mon. 11/12. Sequential Decision Making: Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL).
  Readings: Apprenticeship Learning via IRL; Max. Ent. IRL.
  

• Wed. 11/14. Sequential Decision Making: IRL Applications. (student presentations)
  Readings: Probabilistic Pointing Target Prediction; Feature-Based Prediction of Trajectories.

• Sun. 11/18. Not a regular meeting day (just an assignment due day before the break)
  Assignments: Project milestone due.

• Mon. 11/19. No class (Thanksgiving Break)

• Wed. 11/21. No class (Thanksgiving Break)

• Mon. 11/26. Other Applications: On-Body and Environment Interactions. (student presentations)
  Readings: ViBand; IllumiRoom

• Wed. 11/28. Other Applications: Speech and Electrical Muscle Stimulation. (student presentations)
  Readings: Generalized Speech Animation; Affordance++

• Mon. 12/03. Final Project Presentations.
  

• Wed. 12/05. Final Project Presentations (continued).
  

• Mon. 12/10. No class
  Assignments: Final project report due.