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CSCSPEXX ADVANCED IMAGE PROCESSING 3 0 0 3
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
To understand representation of digital images in the spatial and frequency domains.
To understand Image Compression, Segmentation and image compression standards.
To provide an in-depth understanding of various concepts related to image Representation
and Description.
To get familiar with image enhancement concepts and image degradation/restoration process.
Digital image representation Fundamental Steps in Digital Image Processing, Components of an
Image Processing System-Elements of Visual Perception, Light and the Electromagnetic Spectrum,
Image Sampling and Quantization, Some Basic Relationships between Pixels.
Image enhancement : Spatial Domain – Gray level Transformations – Histogram Processing –
Smoothing and Sharpening filters. Frequency Domain - Filtering in Frequency Domain ––
Smoothing and Sharpening filters – Homomorphic Filtering.
2-D Fourier transform, Fast Fourier transform, Other separable transforms: Walsh Transform,
Hadamard Transform, Discrete Cosine Transform, wavelet Transform, Haar function, Gabor
Transform, Hotelling transforms, Color Fundamentals. Color Models. Basics of Color Image
Processing.
A Model of the Image Degradation/Restoration Process. Noise Models. Restoration in the Presence
of Noise Only-Spatial Filtering. Inverse Filtering. Minimum Mean Square Error (Wiener) Filtering.
Constrained Least Squares Filtering. Geometric Mean Filter.
Image compression: Redundancies, image compression models, elements of information theory,
error-free compression variable length coding, bit plane coding, lossless predictive coding, lossy
compression, predictive coding, transform coding, image compression standards- JPEG, MPEG.
Image Analysis: Segmentation, detection of discontinuities, edge linking and boundary detection,
Edge Operators, thresholding, region-oriented segmentation. Image Representation and Description:
Representation schemes, Boundary descriptors, Regional descriptors.
REFERENCES:
1. R.C. Gonzalez and R. E. Woods, Digital image processing, Addison-Wesley Publishing
House, 3rd edition, 2008.
2. A. K. Jain, Fundamentals of digital image processing, Prince-Hall India, 1988.
3. K. R. Castleman, Digital Image Processing, Prince-Hall International, 1996.
4. A.L.Bovik, Handbook of Image and Video Processing, Academic Press, 2nd edition,
2005.
5. Yao Wang, Joern Ostermann, Ya-Qin Zhang, Video Processing in Communication,
Prentice Hall, Pearson Education, 2002.
6. Ze-Nian Li and Mark S. Drew, Fundamentals of Multimedia, Prentice Hall, Pearson
Education, 2004.
COURSE OUTCOMES:
After the completion of the course, the students will be able to
1. Acquire knowledge of principles of digital image processing.
2. Solve problems pertaining to the field of image acquisition,
preprocessing, Fourier domain processing.
3. Perform basic image restoration, image segmentation and image
compression.
4. Provide the foundations for life-long learning and continual
professional development in the areas of image
applications.
5. Interpret various image compression standards.
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