Digital Image Processing
                                                                       Instructor: Hossein Pourghassem
                                                                                  Islamic Azad University of Najafabad
                                                                                  Department of Electrical Engineering
                                                       References
                                                     ƒ         Digital Image Processing, Second Edition (Text Book) 
                                                              Rafael C. Gonzalez and Richard E. Woods.
                                                     ƒ        Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing, A. K. Jain, 
                                                     ƒ        Digital Image Processing: Third Edition. William K. 
                                                              Pratt, 2001 John Wiley & Sons.
                                                     ƒ        Theory and Application of Digital Image Processing, A. 
                                                              Erhard-Ferron, University of Offenburg.
                                                     ƒ        Digital Image Processing with Application to Digital 
                                                              Cinema, By K. S. Thyagarajan, Focal Press, Elsevier.
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                                                    Evaluation
                                                 ƒ Assignments 5 Point
                                                 ƒ Final exam                                                      10 Point
                                                 ƒ Final Project                                                   5 Point
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                                                 Definitions
                                                 ƒ Image Processing
                                                 ƒ Computer Vision
                                                 ƒ Low Level Processes: Primitive operations such as 
                                                      image preprocessing to reduce noise, contrast 
                                                      enhancement and image sharpening (input and output 
                                                      of this stage are image).
                                                 ƒ Mid-Level Processes: segmentation, description and 
                                                      recognition (classification). (input is image and 
                                                      output is extracted attribute of image in this stage).
                                                 ƒ High Level Processes: understanding groups of 
                                                      objects (making sense).
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                                                    Image Formation
                                                    Image Formation
                                                                World               Optics              Sensor
                                                                           Signal               Digitizer 
                                                                                        Digital Representation
                                                World                     reality
                                                Optics                    focus {light} from world on sensor
                                                Sensor                    converts {light} to {electrical energy}
                                                Signal                    representation of incident light as continuous electrical energy
                                                Digitizerconverts continuous signal to discrete signal
                                                Digital Rep.              final representation of reality in computer memory
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                                                      Initial Examples of Imagery
                                                      Initial Examples of Imagery
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                                                    Digital Image Processing
                                                    Digital Image Processing
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                                                 The electromagnetic spectrum 
                                                 ƒ Gamma-Ray Imaging.
                                                 ƒ X-Ray Imaging.
                                                 ƒ Ultraviolet Imaging.
                                                 ƒ Visible and Infrared Imaging.
                                                 ƒ Microwave Imaging (Radar).
                                                 ƒ Radio band Imaging.
                                                 ƒ Other Imaging Modalities (Sound).
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