COMPUTER ENG 4TN4

Image Processing

Academic year 2010-2011, term 2

 

 

Instructor: Xiaolin Wu, ITB-A315

Extension: 24190

Email: xwu@ece.mcmaster.ca

Office hours: Friday 2pm~4pm

 

Teaching Assistant: Xiao Shu

ITB-A113

 

Lectures: 3 hours/week

Tutorial:  1 hour/week                                  

Laboratory: 2 hours/week

 

FINAL EXAM: ITB/A113 a/b, April 26, 12:00~14:00.

 

Midterm quizzes:

Feb. 17, Thursday, ITB/139, 12:30~13:30

Feb. 18, Friday, T13/123, 12:30~13:30

 

Sample questions of midterm quizzes: makeup.pdf

 

Reading material for contrast enhancement: ContrastTIP-xwu.pdf; octmslides.pdf

Image formation model paper ImageFormation.pdf

 

Lecture notes: lecture2_fundamentals.pdf; lecture3_enhancement_spatial.pdf; lecture4_enhancement_frequency.pdf; lecture5_restoration.pdf; lecture7_segmentation.pdf; lecture8_registration.pdf; Visualization.pdf; morphology.pdf; color.pdf; lecture6_wavelet.pdf.

compressionslides\lec1.ppt;compressionslides\lec2.ppt;compressionslides\let3.ppt;compressionslides\let4.ppt.

 

2010 Project, part 1 http://grads.ece.mcmaster.ca/~shux/4tn4/ass_1.html

 

Midterm:

 

Course Objectives:

 

Outline of Topics:

         Introduction

o   Applications of image processing

o   Elements of image processing system

         Digital Image Fundamentals

o   Image perception

o   Sampling and quantization

o   Basic relationships between pixels

         Image Enhancement

o   Point processing

o   Spatial filtering

o   Frequency domain method

         Image Restoration

o   Degradation models

o   Inverse filtering

o   Minimum mean square error (Wiener) filtering

o   Constrained least squares filtering

         Wavelets and multiresolution processing

o   Multiresolution expansion

o   Wavelet transforms in one dimension

o   Wavelet transforms in two dimensions

         Image Compression

o   Elements of information theory

o   Lossless compression

o   Lossy compression

o   Image compression standards

         Image Segmentation

o   Detection of discontinuities

o   Segmentation by thresholding

o   Region based segmentation

         Image representation and description

o   Chain codes

o   Fourier descriptors

o   Moments

         Color image processing

o   Color models

o   Pseudocolor image processing

o   Color transformation

         Morphological image processing

o   Dilation and erosion

o   Opening and closing

o   Hit or miss transformation

 

Format: The course consists of class lecture sessions, tutorial session and a laboratory component. The lab component of the course consists of programming assignments and a small project.

 

Assessment:

Assignments: 5%

Midterm: 25%

Final: 40%

Project: 30%

 

 

Textbook:

^Digital Image Processing, 3rd edition ̄, by R. Gonzalez and R. Woods, Prentice Hall, 2002.