Image and Video Processing: From Mars to Hollywood with a Stop at the Hospital

3 credits · Graduate

Intro to image formation, image compression, image enhancement & image segmentation. Covers geometric and non-geometric tools, as well as spatial and non-spatial operations. Extension to color images and video. Addresses recent progress in the area, including image inpainting (how to remove objects from images and video), image processing via sparse modeling & compressed sensing, geometric partial differential equations for image analysis, image processing for HIV & virus research, image processing for neurosurgery & other medical applications. Prerequisite: [ECE 280L and (Mathematics 216, 218D-1, 218D-2, or 221) and (STA 130L or STA 240L or Mathematics 230 or Mathematics 340 or ECE 380 or ECE 555 or EGR 238L)] or graduate student standing.