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Postgraduate Course: Image Processing (PGEE11021)

Course Outline
School School of Engineering College College of Science and Engineering
Course type Standard Availability Available to all students
Credit level (Normal year taken) SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) Credits 10
Home subject area Postgrad (School of Engineering) Other subject area None
Course website None Taught in Gaelic? No
Course description Students study elements of image processing theory and application through the application of signal processing techniques.
Introduction: Human and Computer Vision Systems, Images and Image sampling, Transform; Basic Image Processing Operations: Histograms, Group Operations, Statistical Operators; Low-Level feature Extraction: First-order edge detection operators, Second-order edge detection operators;
Feature Extraction by Shape Matching: Thresholding and Subtraction, Template Matching, Hough Transform, Generalised Hough Transform; Flexible Shape Extraction: Deformable Templates, Snakes, Discrete Symmetry Operator, Flexible Shape Models; Object description: Shape and region descriptors, Boundary descriptions, Region descriptors; Texture, segmentation and classification: Texture measures structural and statistical, Classification approaches, Principal components analysis

Entry Requirements
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs Compulsory book purchase: Feature Extraction and Processing Mark Nixon and A. Aguado Butterworth Heinmann/ Newnes, now Elsevier 2002
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites None
Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Delivery period: 2010/11 Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1) WebCT enabled:  Yes Quota:  None
Location Activity Description Weeks Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
King's BuildingsLecture1-11 11:10 - 12:00
King's BuildingsLecture1-11 09:00 - 09:50
King's BuildingsTutorial1-11 10:00 - 10:50
First Class Week 1, Wednesday, 11:10 - 12:00, Zone: King's Buildings. Classroom 6, Hudson Beare Building
Exam Information
Exam Diet Paper Name Hours:Minutes Stationery Requirements Comments
Main Exam Diet S1 (December)Image Processing1:3012 sides
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
The students should enhance their skills in signal processing theory and applications and become familiar with techniques and processes that are applied to images.
Assessment Information
100% closed-book formal written examination
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
Academic description Not entered
Syllabus Not entered
Transferable skills Not entered
Reading list Not entered
Study Abroad Not entered
Study Pattern Not entered
Keywords image signal processing, feature extraction, segmentation and classification, transforms
Contacts
Course organiser Prof Steve Mclaughlin
Tel: (0131 6)50 5578
Email: Steve.McLaughlin@ed.ac.uk
Course secretary Mrs Kim Orsi
Tel: (0131 6)50 5687
Email: Kim.Orsi@ed.ac.uk
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