DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING
B.E., VII Semester, Electronics & Communication Engineering
[As per Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) Scheme]
Course Code 17EC72 CIE Marks 40
Number of Lecture Hours/Week 04 SEE Marks 60
Total Number of Lecture 50 (10 Hours / Module) Exam 03
Hours Hours
CREDITS – 04
Course Objectives: The objectives of this course are to:
Understand the fundamentals of digital image processing
Understand the image transform used in digital image processing
Understand the image enhancement techniques used in digital image processing
Understand the image restoration techniques and methods used in digital image
processing
Understand the Morphological Operations and Segmentation used in digital image
processing
Module-1
Digital Image Fundamentals: What is Digital Image Processing?, Origins of Digital
Image Processing, Examples of fields that use DIP, Fundamental Steps in Digital
Image Processing, Components of an Image Processing System, Elements of Visual
Perception, Image Sensing and Acquisition, Image Sampling and Quantization, Some
Basic Relationships Between Pixels, Linear and Nonlinear Operations.
[Text: Chapter 1 and Chapter 2: Sections 2.1 to 2.5, 2.6.2] L1, L2
Module-2
Spatial Domain: Some Basic Intensity Transformation Functions, Histogram
Processing, Fundamentals of Spatial Filtering, Smoothing Spatial Filters, Sharpening
Spatial Filters
Frequency Domain: Preliminary Concepts, The Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) of
Two Variables, Properties of the 2-D DFT, Filtering in the Frequency Domain, Image
Smoothing and Image Sharpening Using Frequency Domain Filters, Selective
Filtering.
[Text: Chapter 3: Sections 3.2 to 3.6 and Chapter 4: Sections 4.2, 4.5 to 4.10]
L1, L2, L3
Module-3
Restoration: Noise models, Restoration in the Presence of Noise Only using Spatial
Filtering and Frequency Domain Filtering, Linear, Position-Invariant Degradations,
Estimating the Degradation Function, Inverse Filtering, Minimum Mean Square Error
(Wiener) Filtering, Constrained Least Squares Filtering.
[Text: Chapter 5: Sections 5.2, to 5.9] L1, L2, L3
Module-4
104
Color Image Processing: Color Fundamentals, Color Models, Pseudocolor Image
Processing.
Wavelets: Background, Multiresolution Expansions.
Morphological Image Processing: Preliminaries, Erosion and Dilation, Opening and
Closing, The Hit-or-Miss Transforms, Some Basic Morphological Algorithms.
[Text: Chapter 6: Sections 6.1 to 6.3, Chapter 7: Sections 7.1 and 7.2, Chapter 9:
Sections 9.1 to 9.5] L1, L2, L3
Module-5
Segmentation: Point, Line, and Edge Detection, Thresholding, Region-Based
Segmentation, Segmentation Using Morphological Watersheds.
Representation and Description: Representation, Boundary descriptors.
[Text: Chapter 10: Sections 10.2, to 10.5 and Chapter 11: Sections 11.1 and 11.2]
L1, L2, L3
Course Outcomes: At the end of the course students should be able to:
Understand image formation and the role human visual system plays in
perception of gray and color image data.
Apply image processing techniques in both the spatial and frequency (Fourier)
domains.
Design image analysis techniques in the form of image segmentation and to
evaluate the Methodologies for segmentation.
Conduct independent study and analysis of Image Enhancement techniques.
Text Book:
Digital Image Processing- Rafel C Gonzalez and Richard E. Woods, PHI 3rd
Edition 2010.
Reference Books:
1. Digital Image Processing- [Link], [Link], [Link], Tata
McGraw Hill 2014.
2. Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing-A. K. Jain, Pearson 2004.
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