Week 03 · overview
Week 3: Frameworks and the Vision Pipeline
Neural-network frameworks make tensor operations, gradient calculation, and hardware acceleration manageable. Computer vision begins by turning captured light into numeric arrays. This week connects those ideas without pretending a library or edge count understands an image.
| Day | Role | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lesson 1: Neural-network frameworks | Trace tensors, computational graphs, gradients, and devices |
| 2 | Lesson 2: Introduction to computer vision | Explain images as arrays and distinguish vision tasks |
| 3 | Investigation | Hold one condition fixed while changing representation or threshold |
| 4 | Lab | Inspect supplied RGB, grayscale, and edge records |
| 5 | Assessment + Reflection | Repair an overclaim with exact measurements |
Learning contract
By the end of the week, you will be able to:
- explain what a framework automates without calling the framework the model;
- identify image shape, pixel coordinates, channels, and transformations;
- distinguish feature evidence from object identity;
- conduct a controlled comparison; and
- preserve exact settings, measurements, and limitations in a Pixel Evidence Record.
The Lab uses synthetic 6 × 6 grids. It activates no camera, uploads no image, runs no trained model, and contacts no service.
The complete Microsoft source repository—including notebooks, code, images,
assignments, translations, and credits—remains preserved in the local
upstream/ mirror. Review the source record.
Chapter question
How does Frameworks and the Vision Pipeline change what evidence a student should trust?
What you will understand
You will connect the named mechanism to the evidence it can and cannot support.
What you will do
You will inspect supplied cases, trace the important calculation, and test one bounded claim.
What you will produce
You will produce the week evidence record named in the Lab or reflection.
How the week connects
This week carries the previous AI mechanism forward into a stricter evidence check.
Key vocabulary
mechanism; evidence; boundary; test; claim
Approximate time
Five class meetings at about 210 instructional minutes total.
Final evidence required
Submit the completed week record with at least two exact labels from the artifact.