This course is concerned with the computer acquisition and analysis of image data. Computer vision is the construction of explicit meaningful descriptions of physical objects or other observable phenomena from images. 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.