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 
 
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites | 
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Co-requisites |  | 
 
| Prohibited Combinations |  | 
Other requirements |  None | 
 
| Additional Costs |  None | 
 
 
Information for Visiting Students 
| Pre-requisites | None | 
 
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes | 
 
 
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2014/15  Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1) 
  
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Learn enabled:  Yes | 
Quota:  None | 
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Web Timetable  | 
	
Web Timetable | 
 
| Course Start Date | 
15/09/2014 | 
 
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) | 
 
 Total Hours:
100
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 Lecture Hours 22,
 Seminar/Tutorial Hours 11,
 Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
65 )
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| Additional Notes | 
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) | 
 
  Written Exam
100 %,
Coursework
0 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Exam Information | 
 
    | Exam Diet | 
    Paper Name | 
    Hours & Minutes | 
    
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| Main Exam Diet S1 (December) | Image Processing | 2:00 |  |  
 
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 | 
Lectures and tutorials | 
 
| Transferable skills | 
Not entered | 
 
| Reading list | 
Maria Petrou and Costas Petrou, Image Processing: The fundamentals, 2nd Edition, Wiley, 2010 | 
 
| Study Abroad | 
Not entered | 
 
| Study Pattern | 
Not entered | 
 
| Keywords | image signal processing, feature extraction, segmentation and classification, transforms | 
 
 
Contacts 
| Course organiser | Dr Javier Escudero Rodriguez 
Tel:  
Email: Javier.Escudero@ed.ac.uk | 
Course secretary | Mrs Sharon Potter 
Tel: (0131 6)51 7079 
Email: Sharon.Potter@ed.ac.uk | 
   
 
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