Abstract: There are some problems in the course of teaching“Image Processing”,such as the old teaching content,the light practice,the difficulty of the theory and the lack of innovation ability.Therefore,this paper insists on the academic-oriented conception of “scientific research serving teaching,teaching promoting scientific research”.The teaching reform has been carried out in a comprehensive way from teaching content,teaching experiment,teaching method and examination.In order to test the effectiveness of the teaching reform,the number of students,the attendance rate and the results of the students' elective course in the public elective course of the“image processing”of the China University of Mining and Technology in the last three years were compared and analyzed.The practice of teaching reform shows that it effectively solves the above problems in the teaching process,and significantly improves the quality of teaching.