Dyson School of Design Engineering

 DESE71004 Design of Visual Systems (DVS) -  Spring Term 2025

 Professor Peter Y. K. Cheung

 

COURSE SCHEDULE & CONTENTS

Date Sessions  Resources 
 
14 Jan


Lecture 1 - Introduction to DVS

       

Lecture 2 - Anatomy and Physiology of Vision

          (2nd half)

  • Visible Light Wave (NASA)  

  • Paper article on Jennifer Aniston Cell  
 
16 Jan


Lab 1 - Introduction to MATLAB    

 
21 Jan


Lecture 3 - Seeing Colours & Colour Spaces

            

Lecture 4 - Intensity Transformations

            

  • The maths behind color  

  • Tutorial on Matlab  
 
23 Jan


Lab 2 - Colour and Perception    

 
28 Jan


Lecture 5 - Spatial Filtering

                (from last year)

 
30 Jan 


Lab 3 - Intensity transforms & Spatial filters    

 
4 Feb


Lecture 6 - Morphological Operations (Part 1)

            

Lecture 7 - Morphological Operations (Part 2)

            

 
6 Feb


Lab 4 - Morphological Operations    

 
18 Feb


Lecture 8 - Feature Extraction

            

Lecture 9 - Segmentation

            

 
20 Feb


Lab 5 - Feature Extraction & Segmentation    

 
25 Feb


Lecture 10 - Pattern Matching

            

Lecture 11 - Classification & Recognition

            

 
27 Feb


Lab 6 - Pattern Matching & Classification    

 
4 Mar


Lecture 12 - Physics of Vision

       (1st half)

Lecture 13 - Geometric Transforms

       (2nd half)

  • Lens visualisation  

  • Google Cardboard  

  • Ideal lens shape paper  

  • Homography transformation notebook  

  • Colour picker  
 
6 Mar


Project Brief    

 
11 Mar


Lecture 14 - Technology of Vision

                 

SAMPLE and PAST EXAMINATION PAPERS q 

  • SAMPLE PAPER 1
  • SAMPLE PAPER 2
  • EXAM PAPER 2024 (with solutions)

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    Last updated:  12 March 2025