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Postgraduate Course: Image Processing (PGEE11021)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Engineering CollegeCollege of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryStudents 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

Course description Lectures and tutorials
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2014/15, Available to all students (SV1) Quota:  None
Course Start Semester 1
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 100 ( Lecture Hours 22, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 11, Formative Assessment Hours 1, Summative Assessment Hours 2, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 62 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 100 %, Coursework 0 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) 100% closed-book formal written examination
Feedback Not entered
Exam Information
Exam Diet Paper Name Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S1 (December)Image Processing2:00
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.
Reading List
Maria Petrou and Costas Petrou, Image Processing: The fundamentals, 2nd Edition, Wiley, 2010
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Keywordsimage signal processing, feature extraction, segmentation and classification, transforms
Contacts
Course organiserDr Javier Escudero Rodriguez
Tel:
Email: Javier.Escudero@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Sharon Potter
Tel: (0131 6)51 7079
Email: Sharon.Potter@ed.ac.uk
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