As digital cameras, video recorders and other imaging devices become common accessories for computer users, there is growing demand for students who are knowledgeable in the processing and interpretation of digital images. This course teaches basic skills, such as image sensing, sampling, filtering, colour analysis and texture description, while also including some of the more exciting current research topics in computer vision, such as stereo analysis, motion interpretation, 3D shape recovery, and recognition.

Upon completion of this course, students will:

understand the basic concepts of and algorithms for manipulation of digital images
have detailed knowledge of and experience with existing methods for analyzing visual data
acquire mathematical and programming skills to implement novel methods described in the literature
have evaluated selected research papers in image processing and computer vision