ELE 882

The course will cover basic theory and principles of digital image processing. The topics covered include: 2-D Sampling and Quantization of Images, Image Capture and Display, Digital Image Storage and formats, Grey-level image processing (histogram equalization, contrast stretching, etc.), 2-D Discrete Fourier transform, 2-D image filtering operations (lowpass, highpass, edge detection, etc.), color and trichromacy, planar color image processing (simple extension of gray scale), an in-depth look at Image Processing Software (GIMP, Photoshop), and selected areas of application (remote sensing, biomedical, compression)