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    <Code>COMP37212</Code>
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    <Title>Computer Vision</Title>
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    <Units>10</Units>
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    <Period>Semester 2</Period>
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    <Value>Undergraduate</Value>
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    <Level>Level 3</Level>
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    <StaffMember>
      <Name>Aphrodite Galata</Name>
      <Role>Unit coordinator</Role>
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        <OrgName>Department of Computer Science</OrgName>
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      <MaxUnits>European Credit Transfer &amp; Accumulation System Rating :   5.0</MaxUnits>
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    <Content>&lt;p&gt;The unit aims to provide a broad introduction to Computer Vision and Image Interpretation, and &amp;nbsp;introduce the essential concepts, algorithmic tools and key applications of computer vision. This involves exploring the challenges of building practical applications in this area and discussing novel approaches to designing vision systems that can learn from data.&lt;/p&gt;</Content>
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  <UnitOverview Applicant="" Label="Course unit overview" Student="Y">
    <Content>&lt;p&gt;The unit aims to provide a broad introduction to Computer Vision and Image Interpretation, and &amp;nbsp;introduce the essential concepts, algorithmic tools and key applications of computer vision. This involves exploring the challenges of building practical applications in this area and discussing novel approaches to designing vision systems that can learn from data.&lt;/p&gt;</Content>
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  <Aims Applicant="Y" Label="Aims" Student="Y">
    <Content>&lt;p&gt;The unit aims to provide a broad introduction to Computer Vision and Image Interpretation, and &amp;nbsp;introduce the essential concepts, algorithmic tools and key applications of computer vision. This involves exploring the challenges of building practical applications in this area and discussing novel approaches to designing vision systems that can learn from data.&lt;/p&gt;</Content>
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  <LearningOutcomes Applicant="Y" Label="Learning outcomes" Student="Y">
    <Content>&lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ILO 1: &lt;/strong&gt;Assess technologies and analyse their suitability for specific application scenarios.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ILO 2:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;Describe properties of image data and be able to solve problems about extraction of features and other quantitative information.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ILO 3:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;Design basic systems for image analysis and &amp;nbsp;computer vision and justify their design.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ILO 4:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;Explain the design of vision and image processing algorithms.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ILO 5:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;Write programs for the analysis of images, object matching and stereo vision.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ILO 6:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;Prepare technical reports on the evaluation of these programs on suitable test data.&lt;/p&gt;</Content>
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  <Knowledge Applicant="Y" Label="Knowledge and understanding" Student="Y">
    <Content></Content>
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  <IntellectualSkills Applicant="Y" Label="Intellectual skills" Student="Y">
    <Content></Content>
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  <PracticalSkills Applicant="Y" Label="Practical skills" Student="Y">
    <Content></Content>
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  <TransferableSkills Applicant="Y" Label="Transferable skills and personal qualities" Student="Y">
    <Content></Content>
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  <EmployabilitySkillsList Applicant="Y" Label="Employability skills" Student="Y">
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  <Syllabus Applicant="Y" Label="Syllabus" Student="Y">
    <Content>&lt;p&gt;Topics covered in the unit include:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Introduction to Computer Vision and digital images;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Essential Image processing for Computer Vision;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Feature-based models, Edges, Corners and local features;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Visual object recognition;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Image retrieval;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Image segmentation;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Face detection;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Model-based vision;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Image stitching and Panoramas;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Stereopsis: Recovering depth, the correspondence problem, stereo constraints.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robot Vision and &amp;nbsp;Scene Reconstruction.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</Content>
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  <TeachingMethods Applicant="Y" Label="Teaching and learning methods" Student="Y">
    <Content>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lectures&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;22&lt;/p&gt;</Content>
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  <AssessmentMethods Applicant="Y" Label="Assessment methods" Student="Y">
    <IntroText> </IntroText>
    <Method>
      <MethodId>1</MethodId>
      <MethodName>Written exam</MethodName>
      <MethodWeight>70%</MethodWeight>
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    <Method>
      <MethodId>2</MethodId>
      <MethodName>Written assignment (inc essay)</MethodName>
      <MethodWeight>30%</MethodWeight>
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  <FeedbackMethods Applicant="Y" Label="Feedback methods" Student="Y">
    <Content>&lt;p&gt;Written feedback is provided on 6 pieces of coursework throughout the course, corresponding to the major topics covered.&lt;/p&gt;</Content>
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  <RequirementsList Applicant="Y" Label="Pre/co-requisites" Student="Y">
    <Requirement>
      <UnitCode>COMP27112</UnitCode>
      <UnitTitle>Introduction to Visual Computing</UnitTitle>
      <RequirementType>Pre-Requisite</RequirementType>
      <Description>Compulsory</Description>
    </Requirement>
    <Requirement>
      <UnitCode>COMP11120</UnitCode>
      <UnitTitle>Mathematical Techniques for Computer Science</UnitTitle>
      <RequirementType>Pre-Requisite</RequirementType>
      <Description>Compulsory</Description>
    </Requirement>
    <AdditionalRequirement>Students who are not from the School of Computer Science must have permission from both Computer Science and their home School to enrol.&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pre-requisites&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To enrol students are required to have taken COMP11120&amp;nbsp;(waived for CM students) plus COMP27112.&lt;/p&gt;</AdditionalRequirement>
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  <FreeChoice Applicant="Y" Label="Available as a free choice unit?" Student="Y">
    <Content>N</Content>
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  <Accreditation Applicant="Y" Label="Accreditation" Student="Y">
    <Content></Content>
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  <RecommendedReading Applicant="Y" Label="Recommended reading" Student="Y">
    <Content>&lt;p&gt;Digital image processing, global edition [electronic resource] &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Gonzalez, Rafael C.,&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Pearson&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;2018&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;ISBN: &lt;a href="https://www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk/discovery/search?query=isbn,contains,9781292223070&amp;amp;search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&amp;amp;sortby=rank&amp;amp;vid=44MAN_INST:MU_NUI&amp;amp;lang=en&amp;amp;mode=advanced&amp;amp;offset=0" target="_blank"&gt;9781292223070&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Digital image processing &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Gonzalez, Rafael C.,&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Pearson Education Limited&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;2018&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;ISBN: &lt;a href="https://www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk/discovery/search?query=isbn,contains,9781292223049&amp;amp;search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&amp;amp;sortby=rank&amp;amp;vid=44MAN_INST:MU_NUI&amp;amp;lang=en&amp;amp;mode=advanced&amp;amp;offset=0" target="_blank"&gt;9781292223049&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Computer vision : a modern approach &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Forsyth, David,&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Pearson&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;2012&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;ISBN: &lt;a href="https://www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk/discovery/search?query=isbn,contains,9781292014081&amp;amp;search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&amp;amp;sortby=rank&amp;amp;vid=44MAN_INST:MU_NUI&amp;amp;lang=en&amp;amp;mode=advanced&amp;amp;offset=0" target="_blank"&gt;9781292014081&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Machine vision &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Jain, Ramesh (1949-)&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;McGraw-Hill&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;1995&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;ISBN: &lt;a href="https://www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk/discovery/search?query=isbn,contains,0070320187&amp;amp;search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&amp;amp;sortby=rank&amp;amp;vid=44MAN_INST:MU_NUI&amp;amp;lang=en&amp;amp;mode=advanced&amp;amp;offset=0" target="_blank"&gt;0070320187&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Introductory computer vision and image processing &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Low, Adrian, 1956-&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;McGraw-Hill&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;1991&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;ISBN: &lt;a href="https://www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk/discovery/search?query=isbn,contains,0077074033&amp;amp;search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&amp;amp;sortby=rank&amp;amp;vid=44MAN_INST:MU_NUI&amp;amp;lang=en&amp;amp;mode=advanced&amp;amp;offset=0" target="_blank"&gt;0077074033&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Image processing, analysis, and machine vision &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Sonka, Milan, author.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Cengage Learning&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;2015&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;ISBN: &lt;a href="https://www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk/discovery/search?query=isbn,contains,9781133593690&amp;amp;search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&amp;amp;sortby=rank&amp;amp;vid=44MAN_INST:MU_NUI&amp;amp;lang=en&amp;amp;mode=advanced&amp;amp;offset=0" target="_blank"&gt;9781133593690&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Computer vision : algorithms and applications &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Szeliski, Richard,&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Springer&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;2022&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;ISBN: &lt;a href="https://www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk/discovery/search?query=isbn,contains,9783030343729&amp;amp;search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&amp;amp;sortby=rank&amp;amp;vid=44MAN_INST:MU_NUI&amp;amp;lang=en&amp;amp;mode=advanced&amp;amp;offset=0" target="_blank"&gt;9783030343729&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</Content>
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  <StudyHours Applicant="Y" Label="Study hours" Student="Y">
    <IntroText> </IntroText>
    <ScheduledHours Applicant="Y" Label="Scheduled activity hours" Student="Y">
      <ActivityHours>
        <ActivityType>Lectures</ActivityType>
        <Hours>23</Hours>
      </ActivityHours>
      <ActivityHours>
        <ActivityType>Practical classes &amp; workshops</ActivityType>
        <Hours>8</Hours>
      </ActivityHours>
    </ScheduledHours>
    <PlacementHours Applicant="Y" Label="Placement hours" Student="Y">
      <ActivityHours>
        <ActivityType></ActivityType>
        <Hours>0</Hours>
      </ActivityHours>
    </PlacementHours>
    <TotalHours Applicant="Y" Label="Independent study hours" Student="Y">
      <Hours>69</Hours>
    </TotalHours>
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  <Notes Applicant="Y" Label="Additional notes" Student="Y">
    <Content></Content>
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