Computer Vision BCS613B

Module 1 Overview

Introduction: What is computer vision? A brief history. Image Formation: Photometric image formation, The digital camera. Image processing: Point operators, Linear filtering.

Textbook-1: Chap-1 (1.1, 1.2), Chap-2 (2.2, 2.3), Chap-3 (3.1, 3.2)

Module 2 Overview

Image processing: More neighborhood operators, Fourier transforms, Pyramids and wavelets, and Geometric transformations.

Textbook-1: Chap- 3 (3.3 - 3.6)

Module 3 Overview

Image Restoration and Reconstruction: A model of Image degradation/restoration process, restoration in the presence of noise only, periodic noise reduction by frequency domain filtering.

Image Segmentation: Fundamentals, Point, Line and edge detection, thresholding (Foundation & Basic global thresholding only), Segmentation by region growing & region splitting & merging.

Textbook-2: Chap-5 (5.1 to 5.4), Chap-10 (10.1 to 10.3.2, 10.4)

Module 4 Overview

Color Image Processing: Color fundamentals, color models, Pseudocolor image processing, full color image processing, color transformations, color image smoothing and sharpening, Using color in image segmentation, Noise in color images.

Textbook-2: Chap-6 (6.1-6.8)

Module 5 Overview

Morphological Image Processing: Preliminaries, Erosion and Dilation, opening and closing, Hit-or-miss transform, some basic morphological algorithms.

Feature Extraction: Background, Boundary preprocessing (Boundary following & Chain codes only).

Image pattern Classification: Background, Patterns and classes, Pattern classification by prototype matching (Minimum distance classifier only).

Textbook-2: Chap -9 (9.1-9.5), Chap-11(11.1-11.2.2), Chap-12 (12.1-12.3.1)