SSP100 Class Notes
Fall 2026 Semester

Michael Eckmann
Skidmore College

Tuesday October 20, 2026
Survey results, review of Representations, introduce HOG application, exercises Histograms and distance
In-class exercises
Thursday October 15, 2026
Learning goals for today
Instructions
Info on the four networks
continued
mnist_dense1.txt
mnist_dense2.txt
mnist_cnn1.txt
mnist_cnn2.txt
Tuesday October 13, 2026
A few comments continuing from last class, Class discussion, formulate a thesis statement or 2
Tuesday October 06, 2026
Neural Networks, CNNs, relationship to biological neurons, MNIST and solutions to MNIST
Thursday October 01, 2026
finish History of Computer Vision, discuss TED talk
Tuesday September 29, 2026
comments on the keynote, Q & A on readings, start History of Computer Vision
Thursday September 24, 2026
binary numbers, Histograms, Euclidean distance and L1 distance, etc.
Tuesday September 22, 2026
in-class exercises on convolution, more about Canny Edge detection steps, start discussion of comparing images for similarity, Histogram, Euclidean distance
in-class exercise sheet
Thursday September 17, 2026
a little about bits and bytes, ppm files, convolution, edge detection
Tuesday September 15, 2026
Summer Reading discussion, digital images and RGB color, grayscale
Potential questions for discussion on summer reading
Who Is Government? Essay authors/titles/subjects list for reference during the discussion
Thursday September 10, 2026
Introduction, what is computer vision, etc.