Course detail

Machine Vision

FSI-VSV-AK Acad. year: 2025/2026 Summer semester

The course is aimed at a digital photography fundamentals and processing of digital images within computer vision systems. The course focus at the specifics of the computer vision in terms of lighting and capturing of scenes.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

5

Supervisor

doc. Ing. Pavel Škrabánek, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Automation and Computer Science

Entry knowledge

Expected to have basic knowledge of algorithms, programming, and of fundamental concepts in mathematics and physics.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Knowledge and skills are verified by credit and examination. Credit requirements: elaboration of a given practical task. Attendance at lectures is recommended, while attendance at practical sessions is mandatory. Practical sessions that a student is unable to attend in the regular term can be made up during a substitute term. The exam is oral and covers the entire course material.

Aims

To acquaint students with basic principles of interaction of radiation with matter, with instrumentation for applications of computer vision in industry, and with image processing methods used in machine vision applications.

At the end of the course, the students will be able to:

  • select appropriate instrumentation for various machine vision applications,
  • design appropriate installation of the instrumentation,
  • create data processing parts of machine vision systems for basic machine vision applications.

The study programmes with the given course

Programme N-AIŘ-K: Applied Computer Science and Control, Master's, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Guided consultation in combined form of studies

9 hours, compulsory

Syllabus


  1. Introduction, interaction of radiation with matter, formation of images, parts of computer vision systems for industrial applications, typical applications of machine vision.

  2. Lighting geometry and its effect on the final image, radiation sources for machine vision, lighting in the visible, infrared and ultraviolet spectrums.

  3. Lenses with perspective projection – focal length, aperture and basic concepts related to perspective projection, intermediate rings, depth of field, lens defects and their compensation, lens resolution, telecentric lenses.

  4. Photodiode, CMOS sensors, electronic shutters, quantum efficiency of image sensors, formation of digital images, camera electronic circuits and their impact on noise in images.

  5. Optical filters and their use in machine vision, multispectral imaging, instrumentation for machine vision (line and area-scan digital cameras, light sources, optical filters, lenses).

  6. Design of the instrumentation part of a machine vision system (task processing, data collection and evaluation, documentation).

  7. Image histogram, intensity scale transformation, geometric transformations, interpolation.

  8. Introduction to spatial domain filtering, restoration of noise-affected images, edge detection.

  9. Image segmentation.

  10. Morphological transformations and their applications in image processing.

  11. Evaluation of processed images (shape detection, blob detection, measurement of distances and angles).

  12. Image classification.

  13. Object detection in images

Guided consultation

34 hours, optionally

Syllabus


  1. Introduction, interaction of radiation with matter, formation of images, parts of computer vision systems for industrial applications, typical applications of machine vision.

  2. Lighting geometry and its effect on the final image, radiation sources for machine vision, lighting in the visible, infrared and ultraviolet spectrums.

  3. Lenses with perspective projection – focal length, aperture and basic concepts related to perspective projection, intermediate rings, depth of field, lens defects and their compensation, lens resolution, telecentric lenses.

  4. Photodiode, CMOS sensors, electronic shutters, quantum efficiency of image sensors, formation of digital images, camera electronic circuits and their impact on noise in images.

  5. Optical filters and their use in machine vision, multispectral imaging, instrumentation for machine vision (line and area-scan digital cameras, light sources, optical filters, lenses).

  6. Design of the instrumentation part of a machine vision system (task processing, data collection and evaluation, documentation).

  7. Image histogram, intensity scale transformation, geometric transformations, interpolation.

  8. Introduction to spatial domain filtering, restoration of noise-affected images, edge detection.

  9. Image segmentation.

  10. Morphological transformations and their applications in image processing.

  11. Evaluation of processed images (shape detection, blob detection, measurement of distances and angles).

  12. Image classification.

  13. Object detection in images

Laboratory exercise

9 hours, compulsory

Syllabus


  • Introduction to the subject matter, laboratory safety procedures

  • Installation and operation of illuminators, lens Installation and adjustment, working with optical filters

  • Connection and configuration of industrial cameras

  • Software for design and implementation of image processing pipelines

  • Design and implementation of a computer vision system for a given task