The biggest need and potential for IP and CV education is not for those preparing careers in the CVPR type professions, but rather for those in ALL professions, and even trades. We need to look seriously at how to best present needed knowledge to a more general group than those who would read the current textbooks. We all live in 2D and 3D spaces and have a need to understand them.
Images are of prime importance in communication of information.
We need to integrate education in the processing of computer images with all other study of computers. Much important 2D image processing is intuitive and inherently interesting, partly because of the broad native capability of the human visual system. This, together with strong applications appeal, makes IP and CV ideal topics to use in studying more general computer concepts, such as coding, data structures, and algorithms. Our traditional approach has been to develop materials only for students in this type of course. This material should be within the grasp of high school students.