CS590 Image Processing and Computer Vision

Fall 2004

(this syllabus is subject to change)


Instructor: Dr. Jiang Yu Zheng
Meeting Times: 2:30-3:45pm, TR at NU (may be changed to a room in the department)
Credits: 3 Cr.
Textbook: Alan Watt, Fabio Policarpo, The Computer Image, ACM Press, Addison-wesley, ISBN 0-201-42298-0.
Reference books: Robert M Haralick, Linda G. Shapiro, Computer and Robot Vision, I, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-10877-1.
Robert M Haralick, Linda G. Shapiro, Computer and Robot Vision, II, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-56943-4.


Description: Computer Images are pervasive now, occupying a large part of the computer culture. Three main fields of computer imagery are computer graphics, image media and computer vision. Computer vision techniques are also used in computer graphics to collect and model complex scenes; image processing techniques are routinely used by graphic designers to manipulate photographs. This course, however, emphasizes image processing and computer vision, and their merging with many other applications such as autonomous driving. We will discuss image input, image transform, feature detection and recognition in 2D image processing, and stereo, dynamic image, and 3D measure in computer vision for different applications. A project and final presentation are required.

Covered contents:

Image processing for enhancement or basic processing in image space
Edges and their detection
Image transforms
Image segmentation
Image matching

Object detection and recognition

Human and face detection
Scene understanding
3D Reconstruction and Shape from Xs,

3D Sensors
Dynamic image tracking
Motion extraction in image sequences

Human articular motion and video analysis
Image applications in communication, VR, transportation, robots, and multimedia

Evaluation: Term project, Presentation, Exercises (programming), Discussion

We will use Oncourse to provide materials and transmit image data.