DRAFT 1/4/08: Subject to minor changes

ESE 558 DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING
Spring 2008, SUNY at Stony Brook, Instructor: Prof. Murali Subbarao
Time: Thur. 6.50 pm to 9.50 p.m.,  Place:  Humanities 3018, Credits: 3

Catalog description:
          It covers digital image fundamentals, mathematical preliminaries of
          two-dimensional systems, image transforms, human perception, color basics,
          sampling and quantization, compression techniques, image enhancement,
          image restoration, image reconstruction from projections, and binary image
          processing.

Text book:

              1. Digital Image Processing,
                  R. C. Gonzalez and R. E. Woods, Third Edition,

Pearson Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0-13-168728-x, 2008.

Reference Material:

1.  http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/CVonline/
      2. Digital Picture Processing, Vol. 1,
             A. Rosenfeld and A. C. Kak, Academic Press,1982.
      3. Journal Papers, Handouts, Web pages.

Syllabus:

1.  Introduction
2. Digital Image Fundamentals
3. Image Enhancement: Spatial domain techniques
4. Image Enhancement: Fourier domain techniques
5. Sampling and quantization
6. Image Restoration

7. Color Image Processing
8. Image Compression
9. Image reconstruction

10. Binary Image Processing

11. Advanced Topics:

Shift-Variant Image Filtering and Restoration

GRADING

Programming project (one project): 15 %
Select either Written report or Final Exam on

Shift-Variant Image Filtering and Restoration : 15 %

Late project submission is not permitted.

Mid-term1: Thurs. March 6, 2008 : 35%

Mid-term2: Thurs. May 8, 2008 : 35%

Final exam (optional): Tue. May 15, 2008: 15%

Programming project: assigned: Feb. 21/28, 2008; Due: April 3, 2008

Optional written report: topic assigned: Feb. 7 to March 13, 2008; Due: April 24, 2008.

Knowledge of C/C++ programming language is required for
completing the project. Project is not difficult and requires about 10 to 12 hours of effort.

Grades are assigned based on absolute percentage of total marks as below.
This policy is subject change.

F: 0 to 49,
D: 50 to 54, D+: 55-59,
C- : 60 to 62, C: 63-65, C+:66-69,
B- : 70 to 72, B: 73-75, B+:76-79,
A- : 80-89, A: 90-100.

Written Report: Compare and contrast a new shift-variant image filtering/restoration technique with an existing technique in terms of theory, computational requirements, and accuracy of results. Length: 8 to 10 pages. Will require reading one or a few published papers.

Office Hours:    

       Tuesday, Thursday 10.00 a.m. to 11.00 a.m. and 1.00 pm to 2.00 pm.

Contact:

Prof. Murali Subbarao

murali at ece sunysb dot edu