This track offers academic courses on the multiple interactions between Optics, Imaging and Visual quality assessment for manufacturing:
- Advanced and Non-conventional Imaging systems (applications in Aeronautics and Space, Medical and Care technologies, Security),
- Lighting, Material apperance and Quality assessment (applications to Automotive, Luxury products, Design and Manufacturing),
- Printed image for communication (applications to Graphical Arts, Security printing and document protection).
All semesters are taught in English in Saint-Etienne, France.
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Course catalogue
Some courses are shared with Engineering schools Télécom Saint-Etienne 
, IOGS
and Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne 
Each semester counts for 30 ECTS (European Credit Transfer System). Students specialize through elective courses. A 3-month internship counts for 10 ECTS in semester 2
Semester 4 is dedicated to a master thesis.
SEMESTER 1
5 General knowledge and professional preparation
• All students:
2 English, or for the International M.S. French as a foreign language
1 Administration of entreprises
1 Introduction to Labview
• FST students:
1 Professional preparation and Communication
1 Introduction to Matlab
• IOGS students:
2 Discovering the professional world
5 Optics / Image
• FST students:
5 Digital image fundamentals
• IOGS students:
4 Optical design
1 Wavefront Analysis (labwork)
7 Physical Optics
• FST students:
3 Physical optics
• IOGS students:
2 Labworks in optics
• All students:
1 Labwork in optics 2 Physical Optics
2 Physical Optics Simulations (labwork)
6 Light Measurement
• All students:
1 Introduction to radiometry
2 Colorimetry
• FST students:
3 Color science
• IOGS students:
2 Short technical project
1 Introduction to energy
6 Digital Image
• All students:
3 Digital printing algorithms
3 Mathematical morphology
5 Algorithms design and analysis (optional)
SEMESTER 2
5 General knowledge and professional preparation
• All students:
2 English, or for the International M.S. French as a foreign language
1 Innovation and employment law
2 Computer programming
4 Radiometry, Sources and Sensors
• All students:
2 Radiometry of optical systems
2 Radiometry of surfaces and media
5 Optics / Computed Vision
• FST students:
5 Computer vision
2 Geometrical methods for engineers
• IOGS students:
4 Optical design (Zemax)
3 Technical project
4 Photonic concepts
4 Information theory (option)
or
4 Thermal transfers (option)
10 Internship
Three months minimum
SEMESTER 3
5 General knowledge and professional preparation
• All students:
3 English and TOEIC certification, or for the International M.S. French as a foreign language
• FST students:
2 Professional preparation
• IOGS students:
2 Project management
4 Co-conception of Imaging Systems
• All students:
3 Deconvolution of images
1 Introduction to image restauration
5 Material appearance and modeling
• All students:
2 Appearance metrology & perception
1 Light scattering for material appearance
• FST students:
2 Material appearance project (option)
or
2 Markov models (option)
• IOGS students:
2 Optical metrology
5 Imaging & Optics Applications
• FST students:
either
2Imagerie biomédicale
33D visualization and GPGPU
or
5Functional Analysis for Imaging
• IOGS students:
5Non-imaging optics
6 Imaging Systems
2Nonconventional Imaging: hyperspectral, polarimetry, holography, 3D
• FST students:
4Color and Multi-spectral Imaging in Computer Vision
• IOGS students:
4Optical design (advanced).
4 Printing Methods for Visual Communication
• All students:
1Color reproduction
2Security printing
1Security printing project
1Visual Cryptography
SEMESTER 4
30 Internship
Five months minimum, either in a university laboratory or in a company, in France or in any other country
