Course Title

Digital Image Processing (DIP)

Course Number

10636318

Instructor Name

Anas Toma

Contact Information

[email protected]

Semester(s) and academic year(s)

Summer Semester 2021
Second Semester 2021
Summer Semester 2020
Second Semester 2020
First Semester 2020
First Semester 2019

Compulsory / Elective

Compulsory

• Introduction to digital image processing
  • Definition, origins, applicaitons, fundamental steps and components
• Digital image fundamentals
  • Visual perception, sampling and quantization, and light spectrum
• Image enhancement in the spatial domain
  • Intensity transformation functions, histogram processing, and spatial filtering
• Image enhancement in the frequency domain
  • Transformation, representation and filtering in the frequency domain 
• Color image processing
  • Fundamentals, models, transformation and processing in color images
• Image compression
  • Fundamentals, coding and compression techniques 
• Morphological image processing
  • Preliminaries, erosion, dilation, opening, closing, and basic morphological algorithms
• Image Segmentation
  • Compoenents detection, thresholding, and region segmentation
• Representation and Description
  • Descriptors and feature extraction
• Introduction to object recognition

This course provides a fundamental understanding of digital image processing techniques, including image enhancement, coding, and image analysis.

At the end of this course, students should be able to:

• Know the fundamentals of digital image
• Understand and design enhancement filters in special and frequency domain
• Know the concepts of color image processing
• Explain the concepts of image compression algorithms
• Perform morphological image processing
• Explain the concepts of image representation and recognition

Textbook: Rafael C. Gonzalez and Richard E. Woods. Digital Image Processing, 4^th edition, Pearson Education Limited, 2017, ISBN-10: 1-292-22304-9
Libraryies and tools:

• OpenCV
• CVIPtools
• GIMP