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.