Digital image formation and analysis
Dr Michael Morgan
4 points * Two 1-hour lectures and one 2-hour laboratory class per week plus six 1-hour tutorials * Second semester * Clayton * Prerequisite: CSC3140 or PHS2431
Image formation and visual perception. Input devices. The CCD camera. Video formats. Image acquisition hardware. Analog to digital conversion, digitisation, the sampling theorem and aliasing. Review of digital image processing. Algebraic and geometrical operations. Applications in medical imaging and electron microscopy. Digital filter design. Applications in speech processing. The Hough and distance transforms. Image reconstruction from projections: sinogram and Radon space, computed tomography. Characterisation of shape; chain codes and Fourier descriptors. Mathematical morphology and non-linear filtering. Applications in pattern recognition and machine vision.
Assessment
Examination (2 hours): 50% * Laboratory work: 50%
Prescribed text
Gonzales R C and Woods R E Digital image processing 3rd edn, Addison-Wesley, 1987