Lecturer:

Conf. dr. ing. Mihaela GORDAN

Communications Department
e-mail: Mihaela.Gordan@com.utcluj.ro
Office phone: 0264-401309
Office address: Multimedia (CTMED)
laboratory, Str. C. Daicoviciu Nr. 15

Digital Image
Processing
Lecture notes fall 2008

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Lecture 1 Introductory

Lecture 1
Introduction
Course description
Exam grade information

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Introduction (1)
Digital image processing:
deals with digital images = digital representation of the
visual scenes
Note that: visual perception can be static (scene content unchanged
in time) or dynamic (scene content changes in time); the latest case =
video sequence;
Typically, visual scene = a static image, a snap shot

tries to:
implement in digital (algorithmic) form various human vision
processes => image analysis & understanding, pattern recognition
improve image appearance for human visualization => image
enhancement, de-noising; BASIC IMAGE PROCESSING
store and transmit images efficiently => image compression

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Introduction (2)
Applications of digital image processing?
virtually, everywhere!
Industry: inspection/sorting; manufacturing (robot vision)
Environment: strategic surveillance (hydro-dams, forests, forest fires,
mine galleries) by surveillance cameras, autonomous robots
Medicine: medical imaging (ultrasound, MRI, CT, visible)
Culture: digital libraries; cultural heritage preservation (storage,
restoration, analysis indexing)
Television: broadcasting, video editing, efficient storage
Education & tourism: multi-modal, intelligent human-computer
interfaces, with emotion recognition components
Security/authentication (iris recognition, signature verification)
etc

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Introduction (3)
Industrial inspection
(industrial vision systems):

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Introduction (4)

Water sources inspection:

Environment surveillance/monitoring:

Forest fire monitoring

Hydro sites surveillance

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Introduction (5)
Medical imaging applications:

Color image segmentation &

Cells counting

Ultrasound image analysis/quantification

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Course description (1)

Obviously, digital image processing is a very wide field,
sooo

What will we study in 1 semester?

Just the basics you need to develop & implement image

processing & analysis algorithms from all the categories
above!

Simplification:
- only grey level images
- only basic processing methods,
without their combination

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Course description (2)

I.

Course chapters:

Grey level digital image representation. Basic math concepts for

digital image processing algorithms
II. Grey level image digitization:
II. 1. Image sampling
II. 2. Image quantization
III. Image transforms: digital image representation in frequency
domains; applications: noise filtering, compression, recognition
III. 1. Basic properties
III. 2. Sinusoidal transforms
III. 3. Rectangular transforms
III. 4. Eigenvector-based transforms

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IV. Image enhancement:
IV. 1. Point operations
IV. 2. Grey level histogram; histogram-based enhancement
IV. 3. Spatial operations
IV. 4. Transform-based operations
IV. 5. Color image enhancement & pseudo-coloring
V. Image analysis & understanding:
V.1. Regions of interest; features; feature extraction
V. 2. Edge detection, boundary extraction & representation
V. 3. Regions detection, extraction & representation
V. 4. Binary object structure analysis & representation: median
axis transforms; binary morphology

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V. 5. Shape descriptors
V. 6. Texture representation; texture descriptors
V. 7. Region-based image segmentation
VI. Image compression & coding:
VI. 1. Introduction
VI. 2. Pixel coding
VI. 3. Predictive coding of still images
VI. 4. Transform coding of still images
VI. 5. Video sequence (inter-frame) coding
all with practical examples given in the lectures & lab!

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Exam grade information

The grade components:

1) Written exam quiz: => max. 3.5 pts
- 6 questions from theory
- 6 questions from problems/exercises
2) Written exam classic: => max. 6.5 pts
- 5 short theoretic subjects (max. page answer)
- 5 problems/exercises
=> Written exam grade E=110
3) Laboratory work evaluation: => grade L=110
4) Lecture participation/discussions: => grade LD=110
5) Project evaluation: => grade P=110

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The grade = 0.75(0.7E+0.2L+0.1LD)+0.25P

To pass the exam: must have E 5, L 5.