LECTURE 1: COURSE INTRODUCTION

Digital Image Processing

Dr. Samarth Borkar
Dept. of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering.
Goa College of Engineering.

ET543 DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING

Scheme of Scheme of Examination
Instruction
Course Nomenclature of the Hrs/Week
Code Course Duration Marks Credits
L T P
(Hrs) Th IA TW* O Total
ET543 Digital Image Processing 125 3
3 - - 100 25 - -

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Motivation and Perspective

Digital image processing deals with manipulation of digital images through a digital
computer. It is a subfield of signals and systems but focus particularly on images. DIP focuses
on developing a computer system that is able to perform processing on an image. The input
of that system is a digital image and the system process that image using efficient algorithms,
and gives an image as an output. The most common example is Adobe Photoshop. It is one of
the widely used application for processing digital images.

Applications
Some of the major fields in which digital image processing is widely used are:
(1) Gamma Ray Imaging- Nuclear medicine and astronomical observations.
(2) X-Ray imaging – X-rays of body.
(3) Ultraviolet Band –Lithography, industrial inspection, microscopy, lasers.
(4) Visual and Infrared Band – Remote sensing.
(5) Microwave Band – Radar imaging.

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Instructional Method and Pedagogy:

Lectures (Online mode / offline mode) will be conducted with the aid of multi-media
projector, black board, hand-outs, posting online material, video lectures, etc.
Assignments and Exercise will be given to the students for each unit and will be evaluated
at regular interval.

Please note:
• Some of the contents of the lecture notes are not available in the book
• The opposite is of course also very true!
• Some sections of the book are outside the scope of the course
• The section corresponding to a slide has been indicated (when possible)

Information about the homepage

• There is a course homepage http://samarthborkar.simplesite.com

will eventually contain

– Syllabus and lecture plan
– Lecture notes / Handouts
– Tutorials
– Lab Manual for interested students.

~ Dr. Samarth Borkar, Goa College of Engineering. (01092021)