Electronics and Communication Engineering

Acharya Institute of Technology

Acharya Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Road,
Bangalore-560107
Course File
(Student)
A) Course Administrator Details
Course Title

Course Code

Core/Elective

Image Processing

10MT762

Elective

Semester
07

Contact Hours/ week

Lecture

Tutorials

Practical

Department
Name of the faculty with
Designation and mail ID

Prerequisites for the Course

(exemption from the prerequisites
is provided only in exceptional
circumstances)

Year
2016

Electronics and Communication Engineering

KIRAN KUMAR K, APG III
kirankumarkommu@acharya.ac.in

1. Since DIP is a subfield of signal processing, knowledge of

signals and systems, digital signal processing is required.
2. Basics of Vectors, Matrices, calculus, probability and statistics
are also required for better understanding.

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B) Course Related Specifics

Syllabus (from VTU manual www.vtu.in)
UNIT - 1
DIGITAL IMAGE FUNDAMENTALS:
What is Digital Image Processing? Fundamental Steps in Digital Image Processing, Components of
an Image processing system, elements of Visual Perception.
6 Hrs
UNIT - 2
Image Sensing and Acquisition, Image Sampling and Quantization, Some Basic Relationships
between Pixels, Linear and Nonlinear Operations.
6 Hrs
UNIT - 3
IMAGE TRANSFORMS: Two-dimensional orthogonal & unitary transforms, properties of unitary
transforms, two dimensional discrete Fourier transform.
7 Hrs
UNIT - 4
Discrete cosine transform, sine transform, Hadamard transform, Haar transform, Slant transform, KL
transform.
7 Hrs
UNIT - 5
IMAGE ENHANCEMENT: Image Enhancement in Spatial domain, Some Basic Gray Level Trans
-formations, Histogram Processing, Enhancement Using Arithmetic/Logic Operations. 7 Hrs
UNIT - 6
Basics of Spatial Filtering Image enhancement in the Frequency Domain filters, Smoothing
Frequency Domain filters, Sharpening Frequency Domain filters, homomorphic filtering. 6 Hrs
UNIT - 7
Model of image degradation/restoration process, noise models, Restoration in the Presence of Noise,
Only-Spatial Filtering Periodic Noise Reduction by Frequency Domain Filtering, Linear PositionInvariant Degradations, inverse filtering, minimum mean square error (Weiner) Filtering, 7 Hrs
UNIT - 8
Color Fundamentals. Color Models, Pseudo color Image Processing., processing basics of full color
image processing
6 Hrs
Course Objectives

1. To provide an introduction to basic concepts and methodologies

for digital image processing.
2. To familiarize with image transformation techniques.
3. To provide an understanding of image enhancement in spatial and
frequency domain, image restoration.
4. To provide an insight to color image processing.

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Recommended Text Books: 1. Digital Image Processing, Rafael C.Gonzalez, Richard E.

Woods, etl , TMH , 2nd Edition 2010.
Recommended Reference Materials
1Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing, Anil K. Jain, Pearson Education, 2001.
2. Digital Image Processing and Analysis, B. Chanda and D. Dutta Majumdar, PHI, 2003.

Course Outcomes
At the end of the course students should demonstrate the ability to :
CO 1: Perceive various technologies and concepts of a Digital Image processing system.
CO 2: Apply various transformations techniques on images.
CO3: Develop algorithm for enhancing and restoring images in various domains.
CO4: Apply various color image processing techniques.
Web URL:
1. https://www.coursera.org/course/digital/imageprocessing
2. https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/Engineering/EE_368/Spring2014/about
3. https://moocs.qut.edu.au/learn/robotic-vision-april-2015
4. http://nptel.ac.in/video.php?subjectId=117105079

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