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About the Course

This course covers the fundamentals of imaging – the creation of an image that is ready for consumption or processing by a human or a machine. Imaging has a long history, spanning several centuries. But the advances made in the last three decades have revolutionized the camera and dramatically improved the robustness and accuracy of computer vision systems. We describe the fundamentals of imaging, as well as recent innovations in imaging that have had a profound impact on computer vision. This course starts with examining how an image is formed using a lens camera. We explore the optical characteristics of a camera such as its magnification, F-number, depth of field and field of view. Next, we describe how solid-state image sensors (CCD and CMOS) record images, and the key properties of an image sensor such as its resolution, noise characteristics and dynamic range. We describe how image sensors can be used to sense color as well as capture images with high dynamic range. In certain structured environments, an image can be thresholded to produce a binary image from which various geometric properties of objects can be computed and used for recognizing and locating objects. Finally, we present the fundamentals of image processing – the development of computational tools to process a captured image to make it cleaner (denoising, deblurring, etc.) and easier for computer vision systems to analyze (linear and non-linear image filtering methods)....

Top reviews

GS

Nov 1, 2021

G​ood introduction to camera and imaging topics - great first course for the First Principles of Computer Vision Specialization program.

SW

Jan 1, 2023

An awesome course that covers all the important image and processing fundamentals.

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By Ortwin T

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Jul 10, 2025

Good introduction

By mari s

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Apr 17, 2025

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By Muhammed F P

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Oct 22, 2025

very nicce

By Oriol C

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Jun 29, 2022

Great!!

By Muhammed A B D Y

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Oct 25, 2025

good

By Әкім Н С

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Mar 15, 2024

5

By Henry R

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Dec 19, 2021

Some topics are too advanced for a beginner course.

Some basic and fundamental materials are not clearly covered. It requires a lot work for students to study some fundamental materials if students are not familiar with signal and image processing.

By quy d n

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Dec 16, 2022

Lecture slides need to be supplied. The instructor should teach more clearer and with more understanding. This course is difficult to understand all things.

By SAIPAVAN H

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Jul 19, 2022

nothing

By Mohammed R P

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Oct 27, 2025

good