How useful is Group Theory/ Ring Theory

I am doing undergrad in university in CS right now, i am very interested in Computer Vision.
I want to get further into it. I am planning to take Introduction to Ring Theory this Summer, which is a prereq to Group Theory, So I wonder how useful it would be in practice/research? Would I better off taking more calculus, Linear Algebra?

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