Welcome to the resource pages for the course TEK5030 - Computer Vision!

Here you will find instructions on how to set up your computer with the software that is necessary in order program the lab exercises.

REMEMBER

You are NOT required to setup any software on your own computer.

We have several machines in the lab at ITS, already configured and prepared with all you need to solve the lab exercises. TEK5030 is neither a progamming course, nor a how-to-install-software-on-your-personal-computer course. Please don't spend too much time setting up your computer if you run into troubles. Just come to Kjeller and get the most out of your precious time! 🙂

Still, we experience that many students want to run the labs on their own machine, so we have created these resource pages in order to document

• How we have set up the lab computers
• Suggestions for how you may set up your computer

With that out of the way, we can move on.

Lab setup - current state

• For all the lab exercises, you can choose between Python and C++ as a programming language.
  • Python is usually easier for the unexperienced programmer, both the software setup and the actual programming.
  • Many students use the opportunity to learn C++, however. Not with the intention of scaring you away from C++, but you should probably expect a steeper learning curve, as the programs may be more difficult to compile and debug.
  • The labs are independent, so you can choose the programming language for each new lab if you want.
• Editors:
  • We have documented the labs with tutorials for PyCharm for python, and CLion for C++. These are powerful IDEs that help you spend more time on solving the problem, and less time fiddling around with syntax errors and other issues in your code. Both PyCharm and CLion require a licence, but you can either get a free educational licence or use the lab computers which are connected to a licence server.
  • Many students are used to Visual Studio Code, a free and lightweight editor that can be installed on most systems and architectures. If you are familiar with vscode and want to stick to it, it should be fine.
• Setup:
  • As of 2025, the computers on the lab are running Ubuntu 22.04. That is why we recommend you to use the same, so that we don't have to maintain tutorials for many different versions. The installation of the required software dependencies has been documented in the tek5030/setup_scripts repository. The scripts and written documentation in that repository are only targeting Ubuntu 22.04.

Further reading

(A final reminder: always remember that you can use the lab computers prepared for you at ITS, Kjeller.)

• Getting started with Python on Ubuntu (Linux)
• No further tutorials published, yet 🤷
• TEK5030 GitHub repositories