8002103 Digital Image Processing (3cu)

Lecturer: Lectures: Assistant: Exercises: First Lecture: First Exercise:

Moncef Gabbouj RoomTB 220, Fridays 14.15 16.00 Ahmad Farooq Qureshi (Office TC 413) Room TC 303, Mondays 8.15 10.00

Friday 3 September 2004

Monday 6 September 2004

Description: Basic principles and concepts of image processing will be covered in the course.

Textbook:

Rafael C. Gonzales and Richard E. Woods, Digital Image Processing, Second Edition, Prentice Hall, 2002.

Other references: The Image Processing Handbook, John C. Russ, Editor, CRC Press, 1999.
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Course Outline
Chapter Chapter Chapter Domain Chapter Domain Chapter Chapter 1: Introduction to Digital Image Processing 2: Digital Image Fundamentals 3: Image Enhancement in the Spatial 4: Image Enhancement in the Frequency 5: Image Restoration 6: Color Image Processing

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General Information
Prerequisite
Students should be familiar with basic probability and linear system theory.

Requirements
One final exam at the end of the semester, homework and or computer projects.

Attendance
Highly recommended as from time to time, additional topics, not covered in the book, are discussed in class.
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Digital Image Processing

Look at some early photos in the book, Figs. 1.1-1.4

Images based on radiation from ElectroMagnetic spectrum are most familiar, e.g. X-ray images and visible spectrum images. EM waves can be thought of as propagating sinusoidal waves of varying wavelengths or as a stream of massless particles, each traveling in a wavelike pattern and moving at the speed of light. Each massless particle contains a certain amount (or bundle) of energy. Each bundle of energy is called a photon. Spectral bands are grouped according to energy per photon, leading to the spectrum in Fig. 1.5.

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Examples of Gamma-ray imaging are given in Fig. 1.6

notice the tumor in the brain and in the lung

notice the area of strong radiation

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Examples of X-ray imaging in Fig. 1.7 Examples of ultraviolet imaging are shown in Fig 1.8 Examples of light microscopy images in Fig. 1.9 NASAs Landsat satellite captures and transmits images of Earth from space for the purpose of monitoring environmental conditions on the planet. It uses both visible and infrared regions of the spectrum. Ref. Table 1.1.
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Some LANDSAT photos in Fig. 1.10 See Figs. 1.11-1.20

Examples of Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) images, fig. 1.21 Examples of computer generated images, fig. 1.22

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Photographs from Tampere

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Fundamental steps in digital image processing, fig. 1.23 Components of a general-purpose image processing system, fig. 1.24

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How are pictures made?

A basic image capture system contains a lens and a detector. Film detects far more visual information than is possible with a digital system.

With digital photography, the detector is a solid state image sensor called a charge coupled device, (CCD) for short.

On an area array CCD, a matrix of hundreds of thousands of microscopic photocells creates pixels by sensing the light intensity of small portions of the film image.

Ref.: www.kodak.com/US/en/digital/dlc/book3/chapter1/digFundCapture1.shtml
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Types of Image Degradations (1/2)

lack of contrast

motion blur

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Types of Image Degradations (2/2)

noise

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