Postgraduate Course: Image Processing (PGEE11021)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | Image Processing refers to the use of algorithms to analyse, modify, operate on, and extract information from digital images. Image processing is an increasing relevant and rapidly expanding field that underpins numerous applications in our daily life, from more traditional image enhancement methods to the most advanced computer vision developments.This course presents the fundamental principles of image processing through the extension of signal processing techniques to images. It will give students a solid foundation upon which they will be able to build solutions to image processing problems. Building on prior knowledge of basic univariate time series analysis, the course introduces basic concepts of vision, images and operators, and diverse image transforms. Equipped with knowledge about these concepts, the course then presents very recent developments on graph signal processing as an important extension of signal and image processing methods to irregularly sampled data.Finally, the course considers how the previously presented techniques are applied to tackle some of the key challenges in image processing, including problems in image enhancement, and image segmentation. |
| Course description |
Lectures and tutorials
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2024/25, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 22,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 11,
Formative Assessment Hours 2,
Summative Assessment Hours 10,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
53 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
80 %,
Coursework
20 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
80% Exam
20% Coursework |
| Feedback |
Not entered |
| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
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| Main Exam Diet S1 (December) | | 2:00 | |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Apply, analytically for small images and algorithmically for larger ones, key techniques for image transformation, enhancement, and segmentation.
- Appraise the advantages and disadvantages of diverse techniques to solve problems and tasks in image processing.
- Generalise signal processing techniques from univariate signals to multidimensional data and graph signals.
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Reading List
Essential:
Rafael C Gonzalez & Richard E Woods, "Digital Image Processing", 4th Edition, Pearson, 2018, ISBN-13: 9780133356724 (e-copies available in the library)
Maria MP Petrou & Costas Petrou, Image Processing: The fundamentals, 2nd Edition, Wiley, 2010, ISBN-13: 9780470745861 (e-copies available in the library)
Ortega A. Introduction to Graph Signal Processing. Cambridge University Press; 2022, ISBN-13: 9781108552349 (e-copies available in the library)
Recommended for Matlab demos:
Chris Solomon & Toby Breckon. Fundamentals of digital image processing: A practical approach with examples in Matlab Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell ; 2011. ISBN-13: 9780470689783 (e-copies available in the library) |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | image signal processing,feature extraction,segmentation and classification,transforms |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Javier Escudero Rodriguez
Tel: (0131 6)50 5599
Email: Javier.Escudero@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Brunori Viola
Tel: (0131 6)50 5687
Email: vbrunori@ed.ac.uk |
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