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
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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
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites |
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Prohibited Combinations |
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Other requirements |
None
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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
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Delivery period: 2011/12 Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
King's Buildings | Lecture | | 1-11 | | | | 09:00 - 09:50 | | King's Buildings | Tutorial | | 1-11 | | | | 10:00 - 10:50 | | King's Buildings | Lecture | | 1-11 | | | | 12:10 - 13:00 | |
First Class |
Week 2, Thursday, 15:00 - 17:00, Zone: King's Buildings. Classroom 2, Sanderson Building |
Exam Information |
Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours:Minutes |
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Main Exam Diet S1 (December) | Image Processing | 1:30 | | |
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 |
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Syllabus |
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Transferable skills |
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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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1 September 2011 6:33 am
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