ECE 539 Digital Image Processing II - 3
hours credit
Professor: Dr. Scott
E Umbaugh Office: Engineering Building,
Room EB3037
Phone: 650-2524, 2948 e-mail: sumbaug@siue.edu
Class Format: Seminar and Project. A series of seminars,
with topics of current interest in research areas of image processing, will be
presented by the professor and guest lecturers. The students will also
participate by presenting journal papers as well as their own term projects.
Description: Topics of current interest in image
processing. Applications of image analysis, image restoration, image
enhancement, image coding and compression, multi-dimensional image processing. Group projects.
Objectives: To familiarize the student with current areas
of research interest in image processing. Various paper presentations by the
professor and students, and seminars by researchers will be used to achieve
this goal. The students will become familiar with the literature - journals,
magazines, conferences, etc. - in this research area.
Prerequisite: ECE439 or consent of instructor
Course Schedule:
Week
- 1......... Image reconstruction seminar;
Image compression seminar:
Image reconstruction, radon transform, backprojections, Fourier-slice
theorem, LZW, arithmetic coding, DPC, fractal, transform coding,
wavelet-based compression; Meetings with professor for project discussion
- Reading: Umbaugh – pp. 603-611, 655-657,
670-692; Gonzalez & Woods – pp. 362-75, 548-553,566-589
- Homework – Umbaugh book Chapter 9:
Supplementary exercises 1-7, Chapter 10: 7,8,9,15,16,23-28, Suppl. 1-5
- NOTE: You can use your own homework on
the Quiz next week
- 2......... Reconstruction/Compression Quiz; Meetings
with professor for project discussion
- 3......... Journal paper/project proposal presentations, project
meetings
- 4,5..... Seminars/project meetings
- 6........ Progress
presentations by students, project meetings
- 7........ Seminars, project meetings
- 8........ Project presentations
GRADE:
- 20% Compression Quiz
- 10% Project proposal and journal paper
presentation
- 5% Progress report presentation, class
participation, meetings, notebooks
- 65% term project –
paper (see below), presentation (about 20 minutes, same evaluation
criteria as other presentations)
TERM PROJECT
Term Project: The project will be from one of the active
research areas here at SIUE:
1. Skin Lesion Detection and Evaluation
2. Retinal Fundus
Image Evaluation
3. Veterinary
Thermographic Image Analysis
Within these constraints you may choose any project relating to image
enhancement, compression, or restoration. You are to perform graduate level
research in your area of choice and to build on previous work for your project.
A paper will be written describing the project and discussing what was
learned during the project. The final paper will be about 25 to 50 pages, typed, double-spaced
(excluding appendices). Include images in the paper! You are to work in
groups of two. During the term you are required to submit three evaluations of
the work performed by each member in your group, including yourself. These
evaluations are as follows:
- These are all confidential, the only person to see them is the Professor.
The Professor will make final grade decisions.
- Justify the grades you
assign with specifics - for example, "we scheduled three meetings,
student X always showed up prepared, or student Y
was never on time and did not have their part of the project
completed".
- These will be emailed
directly to me at sumbaug@siue.edu before
each of the three milestones – proposal, progress report
presentation and final report.
- Include your name, group members names, which of the three milestones and the
date. A short evaluation should be written about each member of
your group, including yourself.
- Two items for each person:
1) Your evaluation of their work in words. 2) A
number of points based on the following:
- 5 points are to be allotted
for each person, e.g., 3 people give a total of 15 points. If you feel
they all contributed equally, give 5 points to each person. If you feel
the person did all the work, give that person 15 points and the others
zeros. In other words, distribute all the points according to the amount
of work each person contributed to the projects. Note that this is a zero
sum process - the total must add up to 15. These evaluations will be used
as part of your grade, and will be used to determine individual project
grades.
Ø
In addition to handing in a paper copy of the
report, email me a soft copy of the Word file. Before you send me the
file give
it a meaningful name that includes your last name(s) and the
project title.
Your final paper will conform to the following format:
Paper Format Outline
- 1. Title page (project title,
names, course number, date, etc.)
- 2. Table of contents with
page numbers for: different sections, figures, appendices, etc.
- 3. Abstract - 1 page or less.
Concise description of what is contained in the paper, include brief
summary of results.
- 4. Introduction/Project
overview - about 1 to 2 pages.
- 5. Body of paper. Broken down
into sections as required for your part of the project. For example:
Background/theory, experimental methods, discussion and analysis of
results, program descriptions, etc. Present results using graphs, images,
etc., about 10 to 25 pages
- 6. Summary and conclusions. Summarize
any results and draw conclusions as based on these results. About 1 to 4
pages.
- 7. Suggestions for future
work. Include any ideas you have based on your work and conclusions about followup experiments and/or research. 1 to 2 pages.
- 8. References. Be sure your
references are complete. Avoid web sites as references – these come
and go – find the source, which is usually a published paper.
- 9. Appendices - related
background information, program listings, etc.
General: reports should be typed, double spaced, pages
numbered starting with abstract. The number of pages listed
above are only guidlines, do what is
necessary, but keep it concise. DO NOT put in plastic folder, simply staple in
upper left hand corner.
The students will give a presentation of the project during the last week of
the semester.
Grading: The project is worth 65% of your grade, broken
down as follows:
- - 15% Difficulty and
complexity
- - 20% Quality of work and
success
- - 10% Quantity of work
- - 10% Project paper
- - 10% Project presentation
Suggested Project Process:
- 1) Define the project you
wish to pursue
- 2) Library research for
existing algorithms (to get ideas)
- 3) Define C function(s), or
use CVIPtools, to implement related to project
- 4) Code and debug your
function(s), or use CVIPtools
- 5) Test your functions on
some real images
- 6) Process images/do the
experiments
- 7) Analyze results using
appropriate metrics, tabulate or plot, etc.
- 8) Write report, include
images
- 9) Demonstration to the class
COMPUTER RESOURCES AVAILABLE
Hardware:
- 19 Windows
imaging workstations, frame grabber and image compression boards
- HP
color scanner, 1200 dpi
- HP
Color Laser Printer
- Digitizing
stations with CCD cameras, zoom and standard lenses, controlled light
boxes
- Sony
digital Mavica still/MPEG camera, XGA resolution
(768x1024)
- Canesta’s DP205 3-D camera
Software:
- CVIPtools:
a comprehensive Computer Vision and Image Processing package developed at
SIUE – Windows and UNIX
- PARTEK:
Pattern Recognition software with tutorials, comprehensive statistical
pattern recognition and some neural network functions - Windows
- Image
Alchemy: comprehensive image conversion and compression package - UNIX
- Khoros: comprehensive CVIP development environment -
UNIX and X-windows
- xv:
on-screen image manipulation - UNIX/X-windows
- Matlab: Image Processing, Neural Network, and Digital
Signal Processing Toolboxes
- Image
databases: Image
Databases
- Robot
project image database: 438project.html
- Microsoft
Office, word processing, presentations, etc
- Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0
THE RESEARCH ENGINEER'S NOTEBOOK
NOTE: In ECE 539 you are required to keep a research
engineer's notebook which will be reviewed by the professor during group
meetings.
INTRODUCTION: The technical notebook is one of the most
important tools for any engineering work. This includes: basic research,
product development, or engineering design. It is primarily for the
researcher's own use, but another person with similar technical background
should be able to understand and duplicate any experiment, data, and
conclusion, or to prepare a technical report following only the notebook.
There are many reasons to keep an accurate and complete record of your work:
- to
establish the authenticity of the work.
- to
defend patents.
- to
act as a basis for technical reports and articles.
- to avoid
duplication of effort.
The nature of the work and the purpose of the research will influence the
content and format of the notebook.
CONTENT REQUIREMENTS: The notebook must be understandable
to aperson with a comparable technical background. It
must be legible. It must be complete; for example, "We got code from
book" is NOT an acceptable entry - what code ?,
what page ?, what does it do ?, did you have to recompile it ?, etc.
The notebook must answer the following questions:
- WHAT WAS DONE? This includes
the approach to the research problem. Any ideas generated should be
included. Algorithmic flowcharts, references used, notes taken, etc.
should be included.
- WHO DID IT? List all those
who participate in the project for a given entry, including yourself, at the beginning of each entry. Any
corrections or alterations should be initialed.
- WHEN WAS IT DONE? It must be
obvious to any reader when the work was performed. Date all pages and
entries; entires that extend beyond one page
should be dated on each page. Do not leave blank spaces and NEVER
"back-date" entries (NEVER make ANY
false entries in your engineering notebook).
General: The typical engineers
notebook available in bookstores will be blue, brown or black, is approximately
9" X 12", and has about 100 to 150 pages. The notebook will be bound,
never looseleaf, and the pages should be numbered
consecutively, preferably by the printer. For the our
purposes you may use spiral notebooks, as long as each page is numbered and
each entry is dated.
A neat, organized and complete notebook record is as important as the
investigation itself. The notebook is the original record of what was done. It
is not a report to be written after completing an investigation. Do not write
on scratch paper expecting to transfer it later to the notebook. Use a blue or
black non-eraseable pen. Errors are not erased, but
simply marked through with a single line so that they still can be read - later
you may discover that your "error" contains important information.
Leave the first page or two in the notebook blank for a Table of Contents.
This is necessary so that your work can easily be referenced. Use only the
right-hand, odd-numbered pages for the notebook record. Use the left-hand,
even-numbered pages for sketches, rough calculations, and memos to yourself.
You may also place diagrams and graphs on the left, opposite corresponding
procedures and calculations. Do not leave any blank spaces/pages in the
notebook.
Format - Technical Diary
Organization of this format type is left to the engineer. This format is
suited to experimental work, design work, and research. The general format and
content requirements must be met. Notes, program code, flowcharts, procedures,
data, and calculations are blended together logically and chronologically to
form a step-by- step diary describing work. Observations and conclusions are
entered as they are made, and summarized at the logical end of a section. This
format is well suited for research.
Brief Bibliography
Books
- Digital
Image Processing and Analysis: Human and Computer Vision Applications with
CVIPtools, 2nd
Edition, Scott E Umbaugh,
CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL, 2011, 956 pages, ISBN:
9781439802052
- Computer Imaging: Digital Image Analyis and Processing , Scott E Umbaugh, The CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, January 2005
- Digital Image
Processing, R.C.Gonzalez & R.Woods, Addison-Wesley, 2002
- 1a.Computer Vision and
Image Processing, S. E Umbaugh,
Prentice Hall, 1998
- 1. Computer and Robot
Vision, R.M. Haralick and L.G. Shapiro,
Addison-Wesley, 1992
- 2. Machine Vision,
Jain, Kasturi, Schnuck,
McGraw-Hill, 1995
- 3. Robot Vision, B.K.P.Horn, MIT Press, 1986
- 4. Computer Vision,
D.H.Ballard & C.M.Brown,
Prentice Hall, 1982
- 5. Object Recognition
by Computer, W.E.L. Grimson, MIT Press,
1990
- 6. Syntactic Pattern
Recognition: An Introduction, R.C.Gonzalez
and M.G.Thomason
- 7. Pattern
Classification and Scene Analysis, R.O. Duda
and P.E. Hart, Wiley 1973
- 8. Pattern Recognition
Statistical, Structural and Neural Approaches, R.J Schalkoff, Wiley, 1992
- 9. Artificial
Intelligence: An Engineering Approach, R.J. Schalkoff,
McGraw-Hill, 1990
- 10. Pattern Recognition
Engineering, M. Nadler and E.P. Smith, Wiley, 1993
- 11. Digital Image
Processing and Computer Vision, R.J. Schalkoff,
Wiley, 1989
- 12. The Image
Processing Handbook, J.C. Russ, CRC Press, 1992
- 13. Digital Image
Processing, K.R. Castleman, Prentice Hall,
1996
- 14. Digital Image
Processing, R.C.Gonzalez & R.Woods, Addison-Wesley, 1992
- 15. Digital Image
Processing, W.K. Pratt, Wiley 1991
- 16. Fundamentals of
Digital Image Processing, A.K. Jain, Prentice Hall, 1989
- 17. Digital Picture
Processing, A. Rosenfeld and A.C. Kak,
Academic Press 1982
- 18. Digital Pictures,
A.N. Netravali and B.G. Haskell, Plenum Press 1988
- 19. Vision in Man and
Machine, M.D. Levine, McGraw Hill 1985
Journals
- 1. IEEE Transactions on
Image Processing
- 2. IEEE Engineering in
Medicine and Biology
- 3. Computer Vision, Graphics
and Image Processing (CVGIP)
- 4. CVGIP: Graphical Models
and Image Processing
- 5. CVGIP: Image
Understanding
- 6. IEEE Transactions on
Medical Imaging
- 7. Computerized Medical
Imaging and Graphics
- 8. IEEE Transactions on
Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
- 9. IEEE Transactions on
Computers
- 10. Pattern Recognition
- 11. IEEE Transactions on
Signal Processing
- 12. IEEE Transactions on
Neural Networks
- 13. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
- 14. Photogrammetric
Engineering and Remote Sensing
- 15. International Journal of
Remote Sensing
- 16. Journal of Visual
Communication and Image Representation
- 17. IEEE Transactions on
Robotics and Automation
- 18. ACM Siggraph
publications
- 19. Numerous Conference
Proceedings and other journals from:
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
SMPTE - The Society of Motion Picture and Television
Engineers
PRS - Pattern Recognition Society
ACM - Association for Computing Machinery