Have you seen the online courses?

https://www.coursera.org/course/ml (From one of the authors of this paper!)

https://www.coursera.org/course/vision

https://www.coursera.org/course/computervision

Prof. Hinton's videos are very watchable:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyzOUbkUf3M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdIURAu1-aU