# 6.S058 Schedule

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### MIT CSAIL
6.S058: Introduction to Computer Vision  | [![](https://introtocv.github.io/images/cv_logo2.jpg)](http://groups.csail.mit.edu/vision)  |  
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### Spring 2026
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| [[Home](https://introtocv.github.io/index.html) | [Policy](https://introtocv.github.io/policy.html) | [Schedule](https://introtocv.github.io/schedule.html) | [Course Materials](https://introtocv.github.io/materials.html) | [Final Project](https://introtocv.github.io/project.html) | [Piazza ](https://piazza.com/class/mkwwzxso70q31t/) | [Canvas](https://canvas.mit.edu/courses/37847) ]  |  
This schedule is preliminary and subject to change as the term evolves.
You can find the [Course notes under Files on Canvas.](https://canvas.mit.edu/courses/37847/files)   
Lecture recordings will [be posted here.](https://canvas.mit.edu/courses/37847/external_tools/594)  
| **Lecture**  | **Date**  | **Topic**  | **Instructor**  | **Course Materials**  | **Assignments**  |  
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| Week 1 |  
| 1  | Tue 02/03/2026  | Introduction,   
Simple Vision System  | Bill  |  Reading: Chapter [2](https://visionbook.mit.edu/simplesystem.html)   
[Slides](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1xEd0WYYIqDRlsH1I65s9rVNW9rG8aEWT?usp=sharing)  |   |  
| 2  | Thu 02/05/2026  | Image Formation:   
Pinhole Cameras, Lenses, Cameras as Linear Systems  | Bill  |  Reading: Chapter [ 5](https://visionbook.mit.edu/imaging.html), [ 6](https://visionbook.mit.edu/lenses.html), [ 7](https://visionbook.mit.edu/camera_as_linsys.html)   
[Slides](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16gmuKlv3Ty7TYdR89QnWAQUX6Xu8WksZ?usp=sharing)  |  [pset1 out](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Dl2kqXzKyNjJvHy3gfTd76kttqLl06_7?usp=sharing)  |  
| Week 2 |  
| 3  | Tue 02/10/2026  | Foundations of Image Processing:   
Linear Filtering, Fourier Analysis  | Vince  |  Reading: Chapter [ 15](https://visionbook.mit.edu/linear_image_filtering.html), [ 16](https://visionbook.mit.edu/image_processing_fourier.html)   
[Slides](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1iXN1rpu9zOKXm-G7FhKTajR-g7F1XJqJ?usp=sharing)  |   |  
| Tutorial  | Tue 02/10/2026  | Python Tutorial Session 1   
When: 11am to 1pm   
Where: 24-115   | Lukas  
Kathy  |  [Colab workbook, instruction](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ueOE2UhtKPTidtLZz-iRAogYLaIITM_Y?usp=sharing)  |   |  
| 4  | Thu 02/12/2026  | Spatial Linear Filters,   
Temporal Linear Filters  | Vince  |  Reading: Chapter [ 17](https://visionbook.mit.edu/blurring_2.html), [ 18](https://visionbook.mit.edu/derivatives.html), [ 19](https://visionbook.mit.edu/temporal_filters_v2.html), [ 20](https://visionbook.mit.edu/sampling_and_aliasing.html), [ 21](https://visionbook.mit.edu/upsamplig_downsampling_2.html)   
[Slides](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nbGHTQcGLF5N3uPcRql5YtAi5RQpMnJd?usp=drive_link)  |   |  
| Tutorial  | Thu 02/12/2026  | Python Tutorial Session 2   
When: 4pm to 6pm   
Where: 32-141   | Lukas  
Ali  |  [Colab workbook, instruction](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ueOE2UhtKPTidtLZz-iRAogYLaIITM_Y?usp=sharing)  |   |  
| Week 3 |  
|   | Tue 02/17/2026  | Monday Schedule: No Class (Presidents' Day week)  |   |   |   |  
| 5  | Thu 02/19/2026  | Filter Banks and Image Pyramids  | Bill  |  Reading: Chapter [ 22](https://visionbook.mit.edu/spatial_filter_sets.html), [ 23](https://visionbook.mit.edu/pyramids_new_notation.html)   
[Slides](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KVmp1MpLlLwQh-FrbWjhQ30OW25SACWd?usp=sharing)  |  pset1 due   
[pset2 out](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yU6JXAkKCLWJg3Ze1gdqvi41AlTjDbCh?usp=sharing)  |  
| Week 4 |  
| 6  | Tue 02/24/2026  | How to do research, give talks, write   
**(Lecture cancelled due to storm)**  | Bill  |  Reading: Chapter [ 52](https://visionbook.mit.edu/how_to_do_research.html), [ 53](https://visionbook.mit.edu/how_to_write_papers.html), [ 54](https://visionbook.mit.edu/how_to_give_talks.html)   
[Slides](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1AppWRWO8zuj9LDIMkUfZVgSWq_uJTfG-?usp=sharing%C2%A0)  |   |  
| Tutorial  | Wed 02/25/2026  | PyTorch Tutorial Session 1   
When: Wednesday, 4pm-6pm   
Where: 32-141   | Ali   
Kathy   |  [PyTorch's Official Tutorial](https://pytorch.org/tutorials/beginner/basics/intro.html)   
[Tutorial Notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1uvQ86WHi2wNpJanngnjkGkL65cH59j5B?usp=sharing)  |   |  
| 7  | Thu 02/26/2026  | Learning to See  | Bill  |  Reading: Chapter [ 9](https://visionbook.mit.edu/intro_to_learning.html), [ 11](https://visionbook.mit.edu/problem_of_generalization.html)   
[Slides](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1sERe0W23Rb4Z9Mbt5BcnDgYm1AN4P2wB?usp=sharing)  |   |  
| Tutorial  | Thu 02/26/2026  | PyTorch Tutorial Session 2   
When: Thursday, 4pm-6pm   
Where: 32-141   | Ali   
Lukas   |  [PyTorch's Official Tutorial](https://pytorch.org/tutorials/beginner/basics/intro.html)   
[Tutorial Notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1uvQ86WHi2wNpJanngnjkGkL65cH59j5B?usp=sharing)  |   |  
| Week 5 |  
| 8  | Tue 03/03/2026  | Neural Networks  | Kaiming  |  Reading: Chapter [ 12](https://visionbook.mit.edu/neural_nets.html), [ 13](https://visionbook.mit.edu/neural_nets_as_distribution_transformers.html)   
[Slides](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1e_ijCcAouvy7G78IGTPodFmfWAZtnL5a?usp=drive_link)  |   |  
| 9  | Thu 03/05/2026  | Convolutional Neural Networks and Transformers  | Kaiming  |  Reading: Chapter [ 24](https://visionbook.mit.edu/convolutional_neural_nets.html), [ 26](https://visionbook.mit.edu/transformers.html)   
[Slides](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1fcbrgwHnKPea0vCUKWU7kaUCyr9RNtCr?usp=drive_link)  |  pset2 due   
[pset3 out](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1IW77rizf2zsliBgQW8OGYDP5-gRU066n?usp=sharing)  |  
| Week 6 |  
| 10  | Tue 03/10/2026  | Statistical Image Models  | Bill  |  Reading: Chapter [ 27](https://visionbook.mit.edu/stat_image_models_revised.html)   
[Slides](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1icemvU40u-nf9AYjlVyVcom_K2rAdGcm?usp=sharing)  |   |  
| 11  | Thu 03/12/2026  | Learning Visual Representations  | Kaiming  |  Reading: Chapter [ 30](https://visionbook.mit.edu/representation_learning.html)   
[Slides](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bUhueOT6crBh_4xivSx1Wos1rqUwz7rC?usp=drive_link)  |  pset3 due   
Prep assignment due Fri 03/13   |  
| Week 7 |  
| 12  | Tue 03/17/2026  | Perceptual Grouping  | Vince  |  Reading: Chapter [31](https://visionbook.mit.edu/perceptual_organization.html)   
[Slides](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KwY3GUuiJ1xNRcfOrJebP0ttPSOCzpmg?usp=sharing)  |   |  
|   | Thu 03/19/2026  | Midterm  |   |   |   |  
| Week 8 |  
|   | Tue 03/24/2026  | Spring Break: No Class  |   |   |   |  
|   | Thu 03/26/2026  | Spring Break: No Class  |   |   |   |  
| Week 9 |  
| 13  | Tue 03/31/2026  | Generative Models: Introduction  | Kaiming  |  Reading: Chapter [32](https://visionbook.mit.edu/generative_models.html)   
[Slides](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Mg_ZmDiBD4pphiwpwJbowQ8kFWeXAZBd?usp=sharing)  |   |  
| 14  | Thu 04/02/2026  | Generative Models: Diffusion and Flows  | Kaiming  |  Reading: [Intro to Flow Matching](https://mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk/blog/2024/01/20/flow-matching.html)   
[Slides](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1sLgKErjtL0iaa0nLZIj4_yQzwKxIsX7u?usp=sharing)  |  Article review assignment due Fri 04/03   |  
| Week 10 |  
| 15  | Tue 04/07/2026  | Object Recognition  | Kaiming  |  Reading: Chapter [50](https://visionbook.mit.edu/object_recognition_v3.html)   
[Slides](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UlzgBi22NL2sW0FEGQ97br8P9_IVnpUs?usp=sharing)  |  [pset4 out](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1fONqJNhLt4giYlzWy575FePPfFq7xRNS?usp=drive_link)  |  
| 16  | Thu 04/09/2026  | Representing Images and Geometry  | Vince  |  Reading: Chapter [38](https://visionbook.mit.edu/homogeneous_coordinates.html), [39](https://visionbook.mit.edu/imaging_geometry.html), [40](https://visionbook.mit.edu/3d_scene_understanding_stereo.html)   
[Slides](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Hbxw7heQH7cuge5RCpmymTS4vcJ16a01?usp=drive_link)  |   |  
| Week 11 |  
| 17  | Tue 04/14/2026  | 3D Estimation  | Kaiming  |  Reading: Chapter [43](https://visionbook.mit.edu/3d_learning.html), [44](https://visionbook.mit.edu/multiview.html)   
[Slides](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Eq_4MACdfdgvLz0bKX9RWIHOKNrORiuA?usp=drive_link)  |   |  
| 18  | Thu 04/16/2026  | Datasets, Curation, Biases  | Vince  |  Reading: Chapter [35](https://visionbook.mit.edu/bias_and_shift.html)   
[Slides](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1OCBx-gD9qLKWgblqW3BmM_wOiZf4MQNh?usp=sharing)  |  Draft introduction due Fri 04/17   
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| Week 12 |  
| 19  | Tue 04/21/2026  | Motion Estimation, Optical Flow, and Tracking   | [Deqing Sun](https://deqings.github.io/)  |  Reading: Chapter [46](https://visionbook.mit.edu/motion_estimation_intro.html), [47](https://visionbook.mit.edu/2d_motion_from_3d.html), [48](https://visionbook.mit.edu/optical_flow.html), [49](https://visionbook.mit.edu/motion_estimation.html)   
[Slides](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GmrQF4X1Bnw0avddST1d1n8NtNppTVVK?usp=sharing)  |   |  
| 20  | Thu 04/23/2026  | Robustness and Adaptation  | Vince  |  Reading: Chapter [36](https://visionbook.mit.edu/data_augmentation.html), [37](https://visionbook.mit.edu/transfer_learning.html)   
[Slides](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1n3kdc4OhAHAYOujX4gc8qitjM-jqH89y?usp=sharing)   
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| Week 13 |  
| 21  | Tue 04/28/2026  | Vision and Language  | [Zhuang Liu](https://liuzhuang13.github.io/)  |  Reading: Chapter [51](https://visionbook.mit.edu/VLMs.html)   
[Slides](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1C7yZXIXdDHM2OefkBDQu4YwCp2vRxykC?usp=sharing)  |  pset4 due   |  
| 22  | Thu 04/30/2026  | Deep Fakes  | [Chris Bregler](https://chris.bregler.com/)  |  Slides   |   |  
| Week 14 |  
| 23  | Tue 05/05/2026  | Deployable CV/ML  | Vince  |  [Slides](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Qaemauofl54FT4bateajEloF4lbTeVuK?usp=sharing)  |   |  
| 24  | Thu 05/07/2026  | Event Horizon Telescope  | Bill   |  [Slides](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/15qzWzk80CE-5OZQLlm8BlbpRtPZsWipa?usp=sharing)  |  Final project due Fri 05/08   |  
| Week 15 |  
| 25  | Tue 05/12/2026  | In-class Final Exam Review  | Tim, Krishna   |   |   |