IMAGE PROCESSING

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Objectives
1. To teach the fundamental concepts of digital image processing
2. To impart knowledge of image transforms
3. To explore the image enhancement, Image segmentation and restoration techniques
Expected Outcome
The students will be able to
1. Understand the fundamental image processing techniques.
2. Implement image processing applications
Prerequisites/Exposure
Linear Algebra

DIGITAL IMAGE FUNDAMENTAL

Elements of digital image processing systems, Elements of Visual perception, Image Acquisition systems, Image
sampling and quantization, Matrix and Singular Value representation of discrete images.

IMAGE TRANSFORMS
1D DFT, 2D DFT, Cosine, FFT, Sine Hadamard, Haar, Slant, KL, SVD transform and their properties.

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT
Histogram – Modification and specification techniques Image smoothing, Image sharpening, generation of spatial
masks from frequency domain specification, Noise models – Linear and Nonlinear filters, Homomorphic filtering,
Image Segmentation and its types, Morphological based operations, Color processing: false color, Pseudocolor and
color image processing.

IMAGE RESTORATION AND RECOGNITION

Image degradation models, Unconstrained and Constrained restoration, inverse filtering, least mean square filter,
Pattern Classes, optimal statistical classifiers

IMAGE COMPRESSION
Runlength, Huffman coding, Shift codes, arithmetic coding, bit plane coding, transform coding, JPEG Standard,
wavelet transform, predictive techniques, Block truncation coding schemes, Facet modeling.

Text/Reference Book
1. Anil K.Jain, “Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing”, Prentice Hall of India, 1997.
2. Rafel C. Gonzalez and Richard E. Woods, Digital Image Processing”, Addison Wesley, 1993.
3. William K. Pratt, “Digital Image Processing”, John Wiley, NJ, 1987.
4. Sid Ahmed M.A., “Image Processing Theory, Algorithm and Architectures”, McGraw-Hill, 1995.
5. Umbaugh, “Computer Vision”.

Mode of Evaluation
Written examinations, seminar, assignments, surprise tests and quizzes

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