Carnegie Mellon University

16-824: Visual Learning and Recognition

Fall 2025

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Mondays and Wednesdays, 2:00-3:20pm, TEP 1403

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Date Topics Course Materials Instructor Deadlines
Week 1
Lecture 1
Monday 08/25/25
Introduction
No Readings
Jun-Yan
Lecture 2
Wednesday 08/27/25
Introduction to Data
Readings:
#1: Alon Halevy, Peter Norvig, and Fernando Pereira
#2: Antonio Torralba & Alexei A. Efros
#3: Chen Sun et al.
#4: Timnit Gebru et al.
Jun-Yan
Week 2
Bonus Lecture
Wednesday 09/03/25
AWS and PyTorch Tutorial
AWS Tutorial

Pytorch Tutorial

Colab Tutorial Notebook
TAs
Week 3
Lecture 3
Monday 09/08/25
Convolutional Neural Networks
Readings:
#1: Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever, Geoffrey E. Hinton
#2: Karen Simonyan, Andrew Zisserman
#3: Kaiming He et.al
#4: Gao Huang*, Zhuang Liu*, et al.
#5: Zhuang Liu et al.
Jun-Yan
Lecture 4
Wednesday 09/10/25
Visualizing and Understanding Neural Nets
Readings:
#1: Aravindh Mahendran, Andrea Vedaldi
#2: David Bau, Bolei Zhou, et al.
#3: Ramprasaath R. Selvaraju et al.
#4: Olah et al.
Jun-Yan
Week 4
Lecture 5
Monday 09/15/25
Attention and Transformers I
Readings:
#1: Ashish Vaswani et al.
#2: Ilya Sutskever, Oriol Vinyals, Quoc V. Le
#3: Dzmitry Bahdanau, KyungHyun Cho, Yoshua Bengio
Optional Readings:
#1: Antoni Buades, Bartomeu Coll, and Jean-Michel Morel
Jun-Yan
Lecture 6
Wednesday 09/17/25
Attention and Transformers II
Readings:
#1: Alexey Dosovitskiy et al.
#2: Ze Liu et al.
#3: Andrew Jaegle et al.
Optional Readings:
#4: Ilya Tolstikhin et al.
Jun-Yan HW1 Out (Classification + Detection)
Week 5
Lecture 7
Monday 09/22/25
Segmentation and Detection I
Readings:
#1: Jonathan Long, Evan Shelhamer, Trevor Darrell
#2: Olaf Ronneberger et al.
Optional Readings:
#3: Sixiao Zheng et al.
#4: Enze Xie et al.
Jun-Yan
Lecture 8
Wednesday 09/24/25
Segmentation and Detection II
Readings:
#1: Pedro F Felzenszwalb et.al.
#2: Ross Girshick et.al.
#3: Joseph Redmon et al.
Optional Readings:
#4: Xingyi Zhou, et al.
Jun-Yan
Week 6
Lecture 9
Monday 09/29/25
Segmentation and Detection III
Readings:
#1: Nicolas Carion et al.
#2: Kaiming He et al.
#3: Alexander Kirillov et al.
Optional Readings:
#4: Bowen Cheng et al.
#5: Nikhila Ravi et al.
Jun-Yan
Lecture 10
Wednesday 10/02/25
Generative Models I
Readings:
#1: Ian J. Goodfellow et al.
#2: Tero Karras, et al. (StyleGAN 1)
#3: Phillip Isola et al.
Optional Readings:
#4: Tero Karras, et al. (StyleGAN 2)
#5: Tero Karras, et al. (StyleGAN 3)
#6: Jun-Yan Zhu*, Taesung Park* et al.
Jun-Yan