Computer Vision and Image Processing

Subject 433-683 (2009)

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Credit Points: 12.50
Level: 9 (Graduate/Postgraduate)
Dates & Locations:

This subject is not offered in 2009.
Time Commitment: Contact Hours: 24 hours of lectures, 11 hours of workshops; Non-contact time commitment: 84 hours
Total Time Commitment: Not available
Prerequisites: Previous study in artificial intelligence (433-303 or equivalent) and computer graphics (433-380 or equivalent) would be helpful but is not essential.
Corequisites: None
Recommended Background Knowledge: None
Non Allowed Subjects: None
Core Participation Requirements:

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Subject Overview:

This subject gives an introduction to computer vision and image processing. Computer vision is the business of using computers to extract useful information automatically from digital images and videos; image processing is the business of transforming images to be more suitable for human interpretation, storage, transmission, or subsequent analysis by computer vision. Computer vision and image processing can be used in such practical applications as: automated inspection for quality control in industry; medical imaging; visual guidance for robots; face recognition; automated surveillance and monitoring; remote sensing - to a degree providing a visual sense for machines.

Topics to be covered include low-level, mid-level, and high-level vision; image formation; synopsis of human vision; segmentation and feature extraction; perceptual organisation; visual motion analysis; stereo; shape from shading and other properties; colour processing; shape analysis; texture; the Hough transform; image compression; object recognition; image interpretation and scene understanding.
Objectives: On successful completion, students will:
  • know about the processes of image formation and digitization, at an elementary level, sufficiently to understand the basis of techniques for image processing and computer vision
  • know the common techniques used in computer vision and image processing, and be able to fit them into a conceptual framework of low-level, mid-level and high-level processing
  • be able to evaluate, select and adapt these techniques appropriately to solve problems in image processing and computer vision.
Assessment: A two-hour written exam (50%), a programming project expected to take approx. 24 hours (20%) and a report of 10-12 pages in length about some topic in computer vision and giving an in-class presentation about it of around 15 minutes duration (30%).
Prescribed Texts: None
Breadth Options:

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.
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Generic Skills:

On completion of this subject students should:

  • be able to undertake problem identification, formulation and solution;
  • have a capacity for independent critical thought, rational inquiry and self-directed learning; and
  • have a profound respect for truth and intellectual integrity, and for the ethics of scholarship.
Notes: Credit may not be gained for both 433-483: Computer Vision and Image Processing and 433-683: Computer Vision and Image Processing.

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