ECE 439 DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING SYLLABUS

Professor: Dr. Scott E Umbaugh  Office: Engineering Building, Room EB3037

Phone: 650-2524, 2948 e-mail: sumbaug@siue.edu

Textbook: DIPA: Digital Image Enhancement, Restoration and Compression, 4th  Edition, SE Umbaugh, Taylor&Francis/CRC Press, 2023; Supplementary documents are available at the publisher’s web site

Prerequisite: ECE 351 and programming experience, or consent of instructor

Class Format: Two lectures and 1 lab per week, two tests, and term project

Web Site Imaging Examples: CVIPtools Imaging Examples

Goals and Objectives: Introduce the student to analytical tools and methods which are currently used in digital image processing as applied to image information for human viewing. Then apply these tools in the laboratory in image enhancement, image restoration and an introduction to image compression.

COURSE OUTLINE

  • Image Sensing and Representation, 2 Lectures, Chapter 1
  • Image Processing Development tools, CVIPlab, 2 Lectures, Chapter 2
  • Human Visual Perception, 2 Lectures, Chapter 3
  • Discrete Transforms, 4 Lectures, Chapter 4
  • Transform  and Spatial Filters, Wavelet transform, 2 Lectures, Chapter 5

TEST #1

  • Image Enhancement, 5 Lectures, Chapter 6
  • Image Restoration, 6 Lectures, Chapter 7
  • Image Compression, 2 Lectures, Chapter 8

TEST #2

PROJECT DUE -- 16th week

Project will be some application of image enhancement, restoration or coding/compression technique to digital image(s). Software will be written in Matlab or C/C++ to implement the image processing method.

GRADING: Test #1 - 25%, Test #2 - 25%,  Lab Exercises - 25%, Project - 25%

HOMEWORK is not collected, but it is highly recommended to work through the problems, as many test problems are based on the homework. The Solutions Manual is available below with the lecture slides.

ECE 439 LECTURE SCHEDULE

Ø Labs are due at the beginning of the first class period the week after assigned; see late policy below

WEEK

TOPICS

READING

HOMEWORK & LAB

1

Overview, Computer imaging systems

Chapter 1

 

Chapter 2

Chap 1: 1-4,7,20,22-25,29,30

Chap 2: Programming: Introduction to CVIPlab

2

Image analysis, preprocessing, CVIPlab

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chap 2: Programming: Introduction to CVIPlab

Chap 3:1-9

3

Human visual system, image model

Chapter 3

Chap 3:11-16,18,19,23, 25,26,28

Program: Objective Fidelity Measures

4

Discrete transforms, Fourier

Chapter4: Sections 4.1, 4.2

Chap 4: 1-11, 19

Suppl Exercises: 1,2

Program: Fourier transform

5

discrete cosine, Walsh-Hadamard, Haar, PCT, filtering

Chapter 4:

Sections 4.3-4.8

Chapter 5:

Sections 5.1,5.2,5.3

Chap 4: 12-16,18,20,21; Supplementary Exercises: 3,4,5

Program: Ideal Filters

6

filtering, wavelet transform, Intro image enhancement

Chapter 5: Sections 5.4-5.8

Chapter 6: Section 6.1,6.2.1

Chap 5: 1-15, Suppl Exercises: 1,4,5

Chap 6: 1-7,9,10

7

Review and TEST #1, Study Guide, 439SAMPLEtst1.docx , Sample Test KEY

 

 

8

Image enhancement, gray scale mods, histogram mod, pseudocolor

Chapter 6: Section 6.2

Chap 6:11-14,16,18,20-24

Programing (Chap 5): Lowpass and Highpass spatial Filters

9

Image enhancement, sharpening, smoothing

Chapter 6: Sections 6.3, 6.4 6.5

Chap 6: 30-42, Suppl Exer: 2,4

Program: Unsharp masking

10

Image restoration, overview, system model, noise removal: order filters

Project Proposal Due

Must be approved by Professor

Chapter 7: Sections 7.1, 7.2, 7.3.1

Project: Chap2, Section 2.7

Chap. 7: 1-10

Program: Order filters

11

Image restoration: noise removal: mean & adaptive filters, degradation model, inverse filter

Chapter 7: Sections, 7.3.2, 7.3.3, 7.4, 7.5.1

Chap 7: 11-18, Suppl Exer: 1,3

Project

12

Freq. filters, geometric transforms

Chapter 7: Sections 7.5.2, 7.5.3, 7.5.4, 7.5.4, 7.5.7, 7.6

Chap 7: 19,20,21,23,27,28,33

Project

13

image compression: system model, lossless methods

Chapter 8: Sections 8.1, 8.2.1, 8.2.2

Chap 8: 1-7,10-14

Project

14

Lossy/JPEG; Work on project, Oral Presentations.pptx

Section 8.3: pages 413-414, 439-443 (JPEG)

Project

15

Review and TEST #2 ,Study Guide, 439SAMPLEtst2.docx , Sample Test Key

Project

16

Presentation of term project to class, professor and TA

Project Paper Due

 

 

 

 

 

Class Attendance Policy: Based on University Class Attendance Policy 1I9: It is the responsibility of students to ascertain the policies of instructors with regard to absence from class, and to make arrangements satisfactory to instructors with regard to missed course work. Failure to attend the first session of a course may result in the student’s place in class being assigned to another student.

Class Policies:  If you have a documented disability that requires academic accommodations, please go to Disability Support Services for coordination of your academic accommodations. DSS is located in the Student Success Center, Room 1270; you may contact them to make an appointment by calling (618) 650-3726 or sending an email to disabilitysupport@siue.edu.  Please visit the DSS website located online at: www.siue.edu/dss  for more information.

Students are expected to be familiar with and follow the Student Academic Code. It is included in the SIUE Policies and Procedures under Section 3C2.2.

ECE 439 Digital Image Processing Lab Outline

Ø Lab reports/program listings will be handed in at the beginning of the first class period the week after assigned

Ø Late lab work is worth 50% up until 2 days late, after that it is worth 10%

Ø Students can do their labs using CVIPlab in either C or Matlab

Ø Useful document for those familiar with C++, but not C programming: C for C++ Programmers.htm

Week

TOPICS - reading: Chapter 2,  CVIPtools

1&2

Chapter 2: Introduction to CVIPlab (MATLAB or C)

3

Chapter 3: Objective Fidelity Measures, RMS error and Peak SNR

Extra credit: Root-mean-square SNR

4

Chapter 4: Fourier Transform (p.172). Extra credit: supplemental Fourier Transform (p. 173)

5

Chapter 5: Ideal Filters, lowpass and highpass with FFT (p. 207), Extra credit: DCT, bandpass filter

6

 (Study)

7

(Test #1)

8

Chapter 5: Lowpass and Highpass Spatial filters (p. 208), parts 1, 2 .

Extra credit: parts 3,4

9

Chapter 6: Unsharp masking

10

Chapter 7: Order Filters, part 1, let the user select window size of 3×3 or 5×5, Extra credit: let the user specify any mask size, and part 2.

Project proposal due. See Chapter 2: Section 2.7

Must be approved by Professor.

11-15

Work on project: application of image enhancement, restoration or coding/compression.

16

Present project to the class

 

ECE 439 Digital Image Processing - Semester Project

Semester Project: The project will consist of designing experiments, implementing algorithms, and analyzing the results for an image processing problem. You should work in groups of 2. The project will be selected by the students, subject to approval by the professor. The proposal, due week 10, will include: 1) topic, 2) algorithms to be explored, 3) number and type of images to be used, 4) method of evaluation of results

A paper will be written describing the project and discussing what was learned during the project. The final paper should be about 8 to 15 pages, typed and double-spaced; include images ! In the paper include an appendix containing program listing(s). The students will give a 5 minute presentation of their project in the lab to the class, the professor, and the lab instructor. Do NOT go over 5 minutes and do not have more than 10 PowerPoint slides! Also, an evaluation for each group member will be handed in or emailed with the report.

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.

Grading: The project is worth 25% of your term grade, broken down as follows:

  • Overall Project.. 15%
  • Paper................. 5%
  • Presentation........ 5%

Due Dates

Ø  Week 10:  Brief, 1 page max., project proposal

Ø  Week 16 (Finals week): Project paper due. Presentation//demo (finals week)

Suggested Project Process:

  • 1) Find an area of interest from the lab or from class; see Section 11.5.2 in textbook for project ideas.
  • 2) Design experiment(s) you wish to pursue
  • 3) Design algorithms/C function(s)/Matlab code 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) Compare and contrast your results to other similar results from using CVIPtools functions, or research results in library from similar experiments - Analyze results using appropriate metrics, tabulate or plot, etc. Use the objective and subjective fidelity measures in Chapter 7 to compare images. Design your subjective measure experiments carefully as outlined in Chapter 7.
  • 8) Write report, include images
  • 9) Present/demo to the class

·  NOTE: If you do not have any specific images that you want to use, take a look at the image databases on the Internet, such as:

 

DIP Image Databases

 

http://www.imagescience.org/

Project 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.
  • 4. Introduction/Project overview
  • 5. Body of paper. Broken down into sections as required for you project. For example: Background/theory, experimental methods, discussion and analysis of results, program descriptions, etc. Present results using graphs, images, etc.,
  • 6. Summary and conclusions. Summarize any results and draw conclusions as based on these results.
  • 7. Suggestions for future work. Include any ideas you have based on your work and conclusions about follow-up experiments and/or research.
  • 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. Number of pages?- do what is necessary, but keep it concise, extra stuff can go in an appendix. DO NOT put in plastic folder, simply staple in upper left hand corner.

Brief Bibliography

Books

  • 1. Digital Image Processing - R.C.Gonzalez & P.Wintz
  • 2. Robot Vision - B.K.P.Horn
  • 3. Computer Vision - D.H.Ballard & C.M.Brown
  • 4. Syntactic Pattern Recognition : An introduction -R.C.Gonzalez and M.G.Thomason
  • 5. Pattern Recognition - A Statistical Approach - P.A. Devijver and J. Kittler
  • 6. Digital Image Processing - W. K. Pratt
  • 7. Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing - A.K. Jain
  • 8. Digital Picture Processing - A. Rosenfeld and A.C. Kak
  • 9. Pattern Classification and Scene Analysis - R.O. Duda and P.E. Hart
  • 10. Object Recognition by Computer - W.E.L. Grimson
  • 11. Digital Pictures - A.N. Netravali and B.G. Haskell
  • 12. Vision in Man and Machine - M.D. Levine
  • 13. Pattern Recognition Statistical, Structural and Neural Approaches, R.J Schalkoff, John Wiley & Sons NY
  • 14. Digital Image Processing and Computer Vision, R.J. Schalkoff, Wiley
  • 15. Artificial Intelligence: An Engineering Approach, R.J. Schalkoff, McGraw-Hill
  • 16. Algorithms for Graphics and Image Processing, Theo Pavlidis, Computer Science Press, call no.: T385.P381982
  • 17. Handbook of Pattern Recognition and Image Processing, K.S. Fu and T.Y. Young, Academic Press
  • 18. The Image Processing Handbook, John C. Russ, CRC Press SIUE Library call #: TA1632.R881992 (reference)

Journals

  • 1. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • 2. IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • 3. Pattern Recognition
  • 4. Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing
  • 5. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
  • 6. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
  • 7. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
  • 8. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology
  • 9. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
  • 10. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
  • 11. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • 12. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing
  • 13. International Journal of Remote Sensing
  • 14. Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation

Numerous Conference Proceedings from the following professional groups:

  • IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
  • SPIE - Society of Photographic and Instrumentation Engineers, The International Society for Optical Engineering
  • SMPTE - The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
  • PRS - Pattern Recognition Society