CSE 473/573: Computer Vision and Image Processing

CSE 473/573: Computer Vision and Image Processing

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🙋‍♀️ Syllabus for Spring 2026 🙌

This course is an introduction to those areas of Artificial Intelligence that deal with fundamental issues and techniques of computer vision and image processing. The emphasis is on physical, mathematical, and information-processing aspects of the vision. Topics to be covered include image formation, edge detection and segmentation, convolution, image enhancement techniques, extraction of features such as color, texture, and shape, object detection, 3-D vision, and computer vision system architectures and applications. Together, we will explore fascinating topics related to Computer Vision and Image Processing, including Optical Image Formation, Feature Extraction, Classification, and Recognition.

Instructor

Name Title

Chen Wang

Assistant Professor

   

Spring 2026 Schedule Download ALL Slides

Date Topic Note
1/22/2026 L1: Introduction Quiz 0
1/27/2026 L2: Camera Model P1 Assigned
1/29/2026 L3: Coloring & Warping
2/3/2026 L4: Filtering Quiz 1
2/5/2026 L5: Morphology
2/10/2026 L6: Edge Detection
2/12/2026 L7: Pyramids & Histogram
2/17/2026 L8: Feature P1 Due
2/19/2026 L10: Hough Transform Quiz 2
2/24/2026 L9: Optical Flow
2/26/2026 L11: Alignment and Fitting
3/3/2026 L12: Stitching & RANSAC P2 Assigned; Quiz 3
3/5/2026 Midterm Exam
3/10/2026 L13: Epipolar Geometry & Stereo Vision
3/12/2026 L14: Texture & Segmentation
3/17/2026 Spring recess
3/19/2026 Spring recess
3/24/2026 L15: Classification P2 Due
3/26/2026 L16: Recognition Quiz 4
3/31/2026 L17: Instance Retrieval
4/2/2026 L18: Face Detection P3 Assigned
4/7/2026 L19: Multi-layer Perceptron
4/9/2026 L20: Deep Learning Quiz 5
4/14/2026 L21: Object Detection Instructor: Zitong Zhan
4/16/2026 Placeholder for rest days
4/21/2026 Placeholder for rest days
4/23/2026 Project 1 Presentation P3 Due
4/28/2026 Project 2 Presentation
4/30/2026 Project 3 Presentation
5/5/2026 Rest
5/11/2026 Final Exam 8:00AM - 11:00AM; Cooke 121

Acknowledgement

Many materials are derived from Prof. David Doermann’s course slides. We give special thanks to Prof. Junsong Yuan and Prof. Nalini Ratha for providing fruitful suggestions. We also thank numerous generous researchers for contributing to the contents, which include but are not limited to K. Kitani, K. Grauman, S. Seitz, S. Marschner, M. Hebert, Fei-Fei Li, L. Lazebnik, R. Szeliski, A. Efros, A. Oliva, B. Leibe, D. Hoiem, A. Moore, and D. Lowe, etc.