Computer graphics and image processing as an introductory course

Computer Graphics is an important discipline and is present in almost every undergraduate Computer Science curriculum. To create graphical content, both 2D Computer Graphics and Image Processing are essential. 2D Computer Graphics and Image Processing also have strong theoretical relationships. Based on a survey of Computer Graphics courses in undergraduate Computer Science curricula, 84 percent of the introductory Computer Graphics courses are typical 3D courses that only briefl present 2D Computer Graphics and Image Processing. This paper proposes a course on these two disciplines. Such a course is of practical interest for content creation, for the acquisition of images, and for the reproduction of content on different media. Apart from describing the course, this paper identifie theoretical and practical relationships between Computer Graphics and Image Processing. It identifie benefit and drawbacks of adding such a course in an undergraduate curriculum and relates this course to topics that could be part of advanced courses. It finall covers practical concerns such as a developed software framework for assignments and how to cover the main aspects in specifi assignment topics.

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