ECEXXX Image Processing and Feature Extraction L T P J C

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Objectives:
 To provide thorough understanding of Digital Image Processing and its depth of the field.
 To enable the students to understand the need and applications of feature extraction and
recognition techniques.
 To demonstrate and design a typical digital image processing systems for real time
problems.

Expected Outcome:
Student will be able to
 Describe and interpret the basic elements of digital image processing.
 Apply and analyze the spatial and frequency domain techniques on images.
 Exploit the feature extraction techniques for image description and recognition
 Contribute Image processing techniques in various real-time interdisciplinary projects.

Student Learning Outcomes (SLO): 1,4,5,7,17,18

Module:1 Introduction to Image Processing: 4 hours SLO:

1,4
Fundamental steps in DIP – Image Sampling and Quantisation - Basic relationship between pixels.
Image Transform: Two dimensional Fourier Transform- Discrete cosine transform - Multi-rate
solution analysis – Haar Transform- Discrete Wavelet Transform.

Module:2 Image Enhancement 5 hours SLO:

1,4
Spatial Domain: Basic Gray level Transformations – Histogram Processing – Smoothing spatial
filters- Sharpening spatial filters.
Frequency Domain: Smoothing frequency domain filters- Sharpening frequency domain filters-
Homomorphic filtering.

Module:3 Image Segmentation: 4 hours SLO:

4,7
Image segmentation Techniques- Points, Edge and Corner detector - Region based approach-
Clustering- Morphological techniques

Module:4 Feature extraction Techniques: 4 hours SLO:

4,7
Geometry Features - Moment based features - Boundary and Region descriptors, Texture
descriptor - Hough transform – Canny edge detector - Principal Components.

Module:5 Object Detection and Recognition: 3 hours SLO:

 1,4,7
Approaches to Object Recognition- Template matching - Neural network approach to Object
Recognition- Structural methods.

Module:6 Image and Video Compression techniques: 4 hours SLO:

1,7
Lossy and lossless Techniques – JPEG – JPEG2000 – MPEG-1, MPEG-2,MPEG-4 AVC/ITU-T
H.264 standards

Module:7 Video processing: 3 hours SLO:

4,7
Back ground subtraction – Motion detection – Motion estimation - Video segmentation

Module:8 Applications: 3 hours SLO:

18
Current trends in Content-based Image Retrieval, Computer Vision, Biomedical Image processing,
Video Analytics.

Total Lecture: 30 hours

Text Books:
1. Rafael C. Gonzalez & Richard E.Woods, “Digital Image Processing”, Pearson Education
3rd Edition, 2009.
2. Anil.K.Jain, “Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing”, Pearson Education, 2009.
3. Mark Nixon & Alberto Aguado, “Feature Extraction & Image processing, Elsevier
academic Press, 2nd Edition, 2008.
4. Al Bovik,”Handbook of Image and Video processing”, Academic Press, 2000

Reference Books:
1. William K. Pratt, “Digital Image Processing”, John Wiley & Sons, 2nd Edition, 2004
2. Richard Szeliski,”Computer vision:Algorithm and Applications”,Springer- verlag,London
3. A,Murat Tekalp,”Digital Video Processing”,Prentice Hall Signal Processing series,Second
edition@2015.
4. Rafael C. Gonzalez, Richard E.Woods & Steven L. Eddins, “Digital Image Processing using
MATLAB”, Pearson Education 2nd Edition, 2009.
5. Image Processing Research Group “www.iprg.co.in”

Lab 30 Hours SLO:

1,4,7
1. Basic array operations on image.
2. Interpolation and Decimation by factor of 2 of given image.
3. Gray level and Bitplane slicing
4. Contrast stretching – Thresholding
5. Basic Gray level transformations
6. Perform histogram equalization for the given image.
7. Spatial Domain Filtering
 Low Pass Filtering
Order Statistics Filtering
High Pass Filtering
8. Transform domain
Perform DFT and obtain its Fourier Spectrum
Perform Discrete Cosine Transform and obtain its Spectrum
9. Frequency Domain Filtering
Low Pass Filtering
High Pass Filtering
10. Image segmentation based on color and texture feature
11. Morphological Operations
12. Perform feature extraction studies and Compression using frequency domain Technique.
13. Perform feature extraction studies and Compression using wavelet domain Technique.

# Assessment on a weekly continuous basis.

Challenging Projects: SLO:
5,7,17
1. Tracking of object based on color feature.
2. Tracking of object based on texture feature.
3. Image segmentation using feature set.
4. Detection of multiple objects in the image and naming them.
5. Detection of pedestrian on road.
6. Listing no. of vehicles in parking yard with their license no.
7. Image enhancement using frequency domain techniques.
8. Noise removal using frequency domain techniques.
9. Image morphing
10. Image stitching
11. Image Fusion
12. Image encryption techniques
13. Image steganography
14. Watermarking of images.
15. Handwritten character recognition
16. Image compression
17. Video compression
18. Video analysis
19. Motion tracking
20. Motion segmentation