introduction and digital image fundamentals (6 hr): introduce several key applications of dip; basic elements of visual perception; image sensing and acquisition; image sampling and quantization; some basic relationship between pixels; linear and non-linear operations. (p
image enhancement in the spatial domain (6 hr): some basic gray level transformations; histogram processing; enhancement using arithmetic/logic operations; basics of spatial filters; smoothing filters; sharpening filters;
image enhancement in the frequency domain (9 hr): introduction to fourier transform and the frequency domain; smoothing and sharpening frequency-domain filters; homomorphic filtering.
midterm examination
image restoration (6 hr): a model of the image degradation/restoration process; noise models; restoration in the presence of noise only-spatial filtering; periodic noise reduction by frequency domain filtering; linear, position-invariant degradation (brief); estimating the degradation function (brief); inverse filtering.
color image processing (6 hr): color fundamentals; color models; pseudo-color image processing; basics of full-color image processing; color transformation; smoothing and sharpening; color segmentation; noise in color images; color image compression.
image compression (3 hr, optional): brief introduction to the main concept and frame work of image/video compression.
morphological image processing (6 hr): introduction to the basic concept of morphological image processing; dilation and erosion; opening and closing; the hit-or-miss transformation; some basic morphological algorithm.
image segmentation (6 hr, optional): introduction to the basic concept of morphological image processing; dilation and erosion; opening and closing; the hit-or-miss transformation; some basic morphological algorithm.
representation and description (6 hr, optional)
object recognition (6 hr, optional)
totally 54 hours.