Course Title

Digital Image Processing (Elective I)

Course Code

CP906
Theory : 3
Practical

:1

Course Credit
Tutorial

:0

Credits : 4
Course Objective
At the end of the course, students will be able to:

Evaluate and Implement 1D and 2D filter design methods.

Design and apply edge detection, image restoration, image compression, image
segmentation and image matching methods.

Apply various image processing techniques appropriate for practical applications.

Demonstrate a high level of practical ability in the specification and design of image
processing systems.

Develop and implement software to demonstrate various image processing application.

Identify and evaluate alternative solutions to engineering problems related to Digital

Image Processing.

Detailed Syllabus
Sr.
No.

Name of chapter & details

Section I
DIGITAL IMAGE FUNDAMENTALS AND TRANSFORMS
Elements of visual perception, Image sampling and quantization Basic
relationship between pixels, Basic geometric transformations,
Introduction to Fourier Transform and DFT, Properties of 2D Fourier
Transform, FFT, Separable Image Transforms, Walsh Hadamard,
Discrete Cosine Transform, Haar, Slant Karhunen Loeve
transforms.
IMAGE ENHANCEMENT TECHNIQUES
Spatial Domain methods: Basic grey level transformation, Histogram
equalization, Image subtraction, Image averaging, Spatial filtering:
Smoothing, sharpening filters, Laplacian filters, Frequency domain
filters : Smoothing, Sharpening filters, Homomorphic filtering.
IMAGE RESTORATION
Model of Image Degradation/restoration process, Noise models,
Inverse filtering, Least mean square filtering, Constrained least mean
square filtering, Blind image restoration, Pseudo inverse, Singular
value decomposition.

Hours
Allotted

08

10

10

Section II

Wavelets and Multi-resolution Processing

Image pyramids, subband coding, Harr transform; multi resolution
expression, Wavelet transforms.
IMAGE COMPRESSION
Lossless compression: Variable length coding, LZW coding, Bit plane
coding,
predictive
coding,
DPCM.
Lossy Compression: Transform coding Wavelet coding, Basics of
Image compression standards: JPEG, MPEG,Basics of Vector
quantization.
IMAGE SEGMENTATION AND REPRESENTATION
Edge detection, Thresholding, Region Based segmentation, Boundary
representation: chair codes, Polygonal approximation, Boundary
segments, boundary descriptors: Simple descriptors, Fourier
descriptors , Regional descriptors, Simple descriptors, Texture.

08

10

10

Instructional Method and Pedagogy:

L
ectures will be conducted with the aid of multi-media projector,
blackboard, OHP etc. Assignments based on course contents will be
given to the students at the end of each unit/topic and will be evaluated
at regular interval
Minimum five experiments shall be there in the laboratory related to course
contents
Minimum six tutorials which includes solution of minimum five computer programs
in each head

Reference Books:

Rafael C Gonzalez, Richard E Woods 2nd Edition, Digital Image Processing,

Pearson Education 2003.
William K Pratt, Digital Image Processing, John Willey Publishers
Millman Sonka, Vaclav hlavac, Image Processing Analysis and Machine Vision,
Thompson Learning (1999).
A.K. Jain, Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing, PHI.

Additional Resources

NPTEL Lecture Series on Digital Image Processing in Computer Science and

Engineering, By Prof.G Harit, IIT Kharagpur.
NPTEL Lecture Series on Digital Image Processing in Electronics &
Communication Engineering, By Prof. Suman Gupta, IIT Kanpur.
NPTEL Lecture Series on Digital Image Processing in Electronics &
Communication Engineering, By Prof. P K Biswas, IIT Kharagpur.
NPTEL Lecture Series on Digital Image Processing in Electronics &
Communication Engineering, By Prof. S C Dutta Roy, IIT Delhi.