IT 7011 & EC 6035 / EC 6041 (o)

Digital Image Processing

1. Fundamental concepts of digital geometry, Digital image representation, Fundamental steps in image processing, Elements of digital image Processing systems, Image acquisitions, Storage, Processing, Communication, Display digital image fundamentals. Elements of visual perception, Simple image model, Sampling and quantization, Basic relationships between pixels, neighbour of pixels, Connectivities, Relation, Equivalence and transitive clause, Distance measures , Arithmetic/logic operations
2. Imaging Geometry: basic transformations, perspective transformations, Camera models; Photographic films- Film structure and exposure, film Characteristics diaphragm and shutter setting. Introduction to Fourier Transform, the discrete Fourier Transform, some properties of two dimensional Fourier Transform, separability, translation periodicity and conjugate symmetry, rotation, distributivity, and scaling, average value, Laplacian, convolution, and Correlation sampling, Fast Fourier Transforms, FFT algorithm, Inverse FFT , Implementation
3. Image enhancement: Spatial domain methods, Frequency domain method, Enhancement by point processing , Simple intensity transforms, Histogram processing, Image subtraction, Image averaging, Spatial filtering, Smoothing filters Image restoration : Degradation model, Degradation model for continuous Functions, algebra approach to restoration, Un-constrained restoration, constrained restoration, Removal of blur caused by uniform linear motion, Blind image, Deconvolution, Some algorithms.
4. Image coding- Redundancy, Interpixel redundancy, Measuring information, Information channel, Fundamental coding theorem, Image Segmentation , Line detection, Edge detection, Thresholding , Region splitting and merging.
5. Image compression, Image compression models: The source encoder and decoder, Channel encoder and decoder, Error free compression, Variable length coding, Lossless predictive coding, Lossy compression: Lossy predictive coding, Transformed coding, Synthesis and analysis of image, Recognition, interpretition.

Books:

• Digital Image Processing Using Java, Efford, AWL, NY, 2000.
• The Computer Image, A Watt and F.Policarpo AWL,NY, 1999
• Fundamentals of Image Processing by A.K.Jain, PHI