Dyson School of Design Engineering

 DESE71004 Design of Visual Systems (DVS) -  Spring Term 2026

 Professor Peter Y. K. Cheung

 

COURSE SCHEDULE & CONTENTS

Date Sessions  Resources 
 
12 Jan


Lecture 1 - Introduction to DVS

       

Lecture 2 - Anatomy and Physiology of Vision

          

  • Programme Specification  

  • Visible Light Wave (NASA)  

  • Paper article on Jennifer Aniston Cell  

 
15 Jan


Lab 1 - Introduction to MATLAB    

  • Lab Parnter Survey  

 
19 Jan


Lecture 3 - Seeing Colours & Colour Spaces

            

Lecture 4 - Intensity Transformations

            
  • The maths behind color  

  • Tutorial on Matlab  

 
22 Jan


Lab 2 - Colour and Perception    

 
26 Jan


Lecture 5 - Spatial Filtering

           

 
29 Jan 


Lab 3 - Intensity transforms & Spatial filters    

 
24 Feb


Lecture 6 - Morphological Operations (Part 1)

            

Lecture 7 - Morphological Operations (Part 2)

            

 
6 Feb


Lab 4 - Morphological Operations    

 
16 Feb


Lecture 8 - Feature Extraction

            

Lecture 9 - Segmentation

            

 
19 Feb


Lab 5 - Feature Extraction & Segmentation    

 
23 Feb


Lecture 10 - Physics of Vision

       (1st half)

Lecture 11 - Geometric Transforms

       (2nd half)

  • Lens visualisation  

  • Google Cardboard  

  • Ideal lens shape paper  

  • Homography transformation notebook  

  • Colour picker  

 
26 Feb


Continue with Lab 5 (unsupervised)     

 
2 March


Lecture 12 - Pattern Matching

            

Lecture 13 - Classification & Recognition

            

Project Brief    

 
 
5 March


Lab 6 - Pattern Matching & Classification    

PAST EXAMINATION PAPERS

  • EXAM PAPER 2024 (with solutions)
  • EXAM PAPER 2025 (with solutions)


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