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CS30750 (a.k.a. CS484): Introduction to Computer Vision

Fall 2026

Instructor

Min Hyuk Kim, [Room] 2403, [email]

Course description

 

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to low-level computer vision, including the foundations of camera image formation, geometric optics, feature detection, stereo matching, motion estimation, image recognition, scene understanding, etc. This course will help students develop intuitions and mathematics of various computer vision applications.

Lecture time and place

Tuesday and Thursday 1:00PM—2:30PM, E3-1, Rm. 1501

TA office hours

Tuesday and Thursday 3:00PM—6:00PM, E3-1, Rm. 2401

Teaching Assistants

Seungmin Hwang (ex. 7864, )
Seung Chan Hwang (ex. 7864, )
Jongmo Park (ex. 7864, )

Reference books

Richard Szeliski (2010) Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications, Springer [site]
Richard Hartley and Andrew Zisserman (2011) Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision, Cambridge Press [site]
Xiang Gao, Tao Zhang (2011) Introduction to Visual SLAM: From Theory to Practice, Splinger [site]
Christopher M. Bishop (2006) Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Springer [site]
Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville (2016) Deep Learning, MIT Press [site]

Prerequisites

There are no official course prerequisites. Basic knowledge of Python and LaTeX is fundamentally required to fulfill homework tasks.

Course goal

Student will establish theoretical and practical foundations of computer vision and be familiar with various computer vision applications.

Tentative schedule

(Note that this curriculum will be revised adaptively.)

  Index Date Lecture Slides HW Remarks
  1   Introduction to computer vision, Light KLMS    
  2   No lecture KLMS  
  3   Human visual system KLMS hw1  
  4   Color camera, photography KLMS  
  5   Digital imaging KLMS  
  6   Image filter KLMS  
  7   Fourier series & transform KLMS hw2  
  8   Image formation of camera KLMS    
  9   Epipolar geometry KLMS    
  10   Homography, calibration, thin-lens optics KLMS  
  11   Stereo matching (video) KLMS    
  12   Multiview geometry (video) KLMS hw3  
  13   3D scanning workflow KLMS    
    Mid-term exam      
  15   Feature detection (Harris corner detector) KLMS    
  16   Feature matching (blob detection) KLMS  
  17   Feature descriptor (SIFT) KLMS    
  18   Optical flow and tracking KLMS  
  19   Machine learning for computer vision KLMS hw4  
  20   Linear regression and denoising KLMS    
  21   RANSAC, generalization error KLMS    
  22   Classification KLMS  
  23   Clustering, dimension reduction KLMS    
  24   Recognition (Bag-of-words) KLMS hw5  
  25   Learning for computer vision KLMS    
      Final exam      
             
             
             
             
             
             

Grading

Attendance (10%), mid-term exam (35%), final exam (35%), homework assignments (20%)

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