EE435 Biometric Signal Processing

Syllabus: Spring 2012

Rev. 2, 29 Mar 2012

For Reading,

     IB = “Introduction to Biometrics” (course textbook) 

     Ives Notes = Notes/handouts provided in class

     DIPUM = “Digital Image Processing Using MATLAB” (text available in lab)

Week 1

Lesson #

Date

Reading

Topics

Assignment

1

Mon, 1/9

 

No Class

 

Lab

Tue, 1/10

DIPUM Ch 1

Monday Schedule-Course Introduction

 

2

Wed, 1/11

IB Ch 1

Introduction to Biometrics

 

3

Fri, 1/13

IB Ch 1

Introduction to Biometrics

 

 

Week 2

Lesson #

Date

Reading

Topics

Assignment

4

Mon, 1/16

 

Holiday-Martin Luther King, Jr’s Birthday

 

Lab

Tue, 1/17

 

Project 1: A MATLAB Function Library

 

5

Wed, 1/18

IB Ch 1

Introduction to Biometrics

 PS01 due

6

Fri, 1/20

IB Ch 1

Introduction to Biometrics

 

 

Week 3

Lesson #

Date

Reading

Topics

Assignment

7

Mon, 1/23

Ives Notes

Introduction to Pattern Recognition 1

 

Lab

Tue, 1/24

 

Project 2: Pattern Recognition, Part 1

 

8

Wed, 1/25

Ives Notes

Introduction to Pattern Recognition 2

 

9

Fri, 1/27

Ives Notes

Introduction to Pattern Recognition 3

PS02 due

 

Week 4

Lesson #

Date

Reading

Topics

Assignment

10

Mon, 1/30

Ives Notes

Introduction to Pattern Recognition 4

 

Lab

Tue, 1/31

 

Project 03:  Pattern Recognition, Part 2 (System Design)

 

11

Wed, 2/1

DIPUM Ch 2

Image Processing Fundamentals

 

12

Fri, 2/3

DIPUM Ch 2

Image Processing Fundamentals

 

 

Week 5

Lesson #

Date

Reading

Topics

Assignment

13

Mon, 2/6

DIPUM Ch 3

Intensity Transforms and Spatial Filtering

 

Lab

Tue, 2/7

 

Project 4: Spatial Image Processing

 

14

Wed, 2/8

DIPUM Ch 3

Intensity Transforms and Spatial Filtering

 

15

Fri, 2/10

DIPUM Ch 7

Color Image Processing

PS03 due

 

Week 6          Academic Reserve

Lesson #

Date

Reading

Topics

Assignment

16

Mon, 2/13

DIPUM Ch 10

Morphological Image Processing

 

Lab

Tue, 2/14

 

Exam 1 (take home exam)

 

17

Wed, 2/15

DIPUM Ch 10

Morphological Image Processing

 

18

Fri, 2/17

DIPUM Ch 10

Morphological Image Processing/Exam 1 due beginning of class

 

 

Week 7

Lesson #

Date

Reading

Topics

Assignment

19

Mon, 2/20

 

Holiday—Washington’s Birthday

 

Lab

Tue, 2/21

 

Project 5: Feature Extraction and Segmentation

 

20

Wed, 2/22

DIPUM Ch 11

Image Segmentation

 

21

Fri, 2/24

DIPUM Ch 11

Image Segmentation

 

 

Week 8

Lesson #

Date

Reading

Topics

Assignment

22

Mon, 2/27

DIPUM Ch 13

Object Recognition

 

Lab

Tue, 2/28

 

Project 6: Video Processing-Pupil Segmentation

 

23

Wed, 2/29

DIPUM Ch 13

Object Recognition

 PS04 due

24

Fri, 3/2

IB Ch 2

Fingerprint Recognition

 

 

Week 9

Lesson #

Date

Reading

Topics

Assignment

25

Mon, 3/5

IB Ch 2

Fingerprint Recognition

 

Lab

Tue, 3/6

 

Project 7: Motion Detection & Tracking in Video

 

26

Wed, 3/7

IB Ch 2

Fingerprint Recognition

 

27

Fri, 3/9

IB Ch 2

Fingerprint Recognition

 PS05 due

 

Spring Break, 3/12 – 3/16

 

Week 10

 

 

 

 

Lesson #

Date

Reading

Topics

Assignment

28

Mon, 3/19

IB Ch 3

Face Recognition

 

Lab

Tue, 3/20

IB Ch 3

Project 8: Fingerprint Recognition

 

29

Wed, 3/21

IB Ch 3

Face Recognition

 

30

Fri, 3/23

IB Ch 3

Face Recognition

 

 

Week 11

Lesson #

Date

Reading

Topics

Assignment

31

Mon, 3/26

IB Ch 3

Face Recognition

 

Lab

Tue, 3/27

 

Project 9: Face Recognition

 

32

Wed, 3/28

IB Ch 4

Face Recognition Project Time

 

33

Fri, 3/30

IB Ch 4

Face Recognition Project Time

 

 

Week 12      Academic Reserve

Lesson #

Date

Reading

Topics

Assignment

34

Mon, 4/2

IB Ch 4

Iris Recognition

PS06 due

Lab

Tue, 4/3

 

Exam 2 (take home)

 

35

Wed, 4/4

IB Ch 4

Iris Recognition

 

36

Fri, 4/6

IB Ch 4

Exam 2 due beginning of class/Project 10: Iris Recognition

 

 

Week 13

Lesson #

Date

Reading

Topics

Assignment

37

Mon, 4/9

IB Ch 4

Iris Recognition Project Time

 

Lab

Tue, 4/10

 

Field Trip: NSA @ UMBC, Scitor Corporation

 

38

Wed, 4/11

IB Ch 5, 7

Other Biometrics, Security of Biometric Systems

 PS07 due

39

Fri, 4/13

 

Final Project Assignment

 

 

Week 14

Lesson #

Date

Reading

Topics

Assignment

40

Mon, 4/16

 

Final Project

 

Lab

Tue, 4/17

 

Final Project

 

41

Wed, 4/18

 

Final Project

 

42

Fri, 4/20

 

Final Project

 

 

Week 15

Lesson #

Date

Reading

Topics

Assignment

43

Mon, 4/23

 

Final Project

 

Lab

Tue, 4/24

 

Final Project

 

44

Wed, 4/25

 

Capstone Conference

 

45

Fri, 4/27

 

Exam 3 (take home)

 

 

Week 16

Lesson #

Date

Reading

Topics

Assignment

46

Mon, 4/30

 

Final Project

 

Lab

Tue, 5/1

 

Last Day of Classes: Course Wrap Up

Exam 3 due 1600

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TBD

 

Final Presentations (during final exam period)