ECE 613
Image Processing and Visual Communication
Winter 2025
Topics
- Course Description
- Digital image and video processing Intensity transformations for image enhancement; spatial domain linear filtering; frequency domain linear filtering; nonlinear image filtering; image sampling and interpolation ; motion and digital video processing.
- Image analysis and understanding Edge detection; image segmentation; energy preserving and energy compaction; principle component analysis and independent component analysis; sparse representations ; wavelet and multiresolution image analysis; non-linear image analysis.
- Statistical and perceptual image modeling and processing Spatial domain image statistics; Fourier domain statistical image models; wavelet domain statistical image models; Markov random field models; computational models of the human visual system; perceptual image quality assessment and processing ; data -driven and learning - based image processing algorithms.
- Visual communications: compression, quality, streaming, robustness and scalability Video compression and standards; quality-of-service and quality- of-experience; adaptive video streaming; error resilient visual coding and communications; scalable image and video coding and communications.
Winter 2024
Topics
- Course Description
- Digital image and video processing Intensity transformations for image enhancement; spatial domain linear filtering; frequency domain linear filtering; nonlinear image filtering; image sampling and interpolation; motion and digital video processing.
- Image analysis and understanding Edge detection; image segmentation ; energy preserving and energy compaction; principle component analysis and independent component analysis; sparse representations ; wavelet and multiresolution image analysis; non-linear image analysis.
- Statistical and perceptual image modeling and processing Spatial domain image statistics; Fourier domain statistical image models; wavelet domain statistical image models; Markov random field models; computational models of the human visual system; perceptual image quality assessment and processing ; data -driven and learning - based image processing algorithms.
- Visual communications: compression, quality, streaming, robustness and scalability Video compression and standards; quality -of-service and quality -of-experience; adaptive video streaming; error resilient visual communications; multiple descriptive coding; scalable image and video coding and communications.
Readings
- Handbook of Image and Video Processing, Bovik Ed., 2nd Edition, Academic Press, 2005.
- Digital Image Processing, Gonzalez and Woods, 4th Edition, 2017.
- 3) Recent research papers found through se arch engines and public reservoirs, such as Google Scholar, ieeexplore.ieee.org, www.webofknowledge.com, arxiv.org, researchgate.net
Fall 2018 · Image Processing and Visual Communications
Readings
- Handbook of Image and Video Processing
- Digital Image Processing
- Digital Image Processing with MATLAB
- Digital Video Processing
- Digital Video Image Quality and Perceptual Coding
- Modern Image Quality Assessment
- No required textbook. Electronic copies of lecture notes/slides will be provided. Additional reference books and materials include:
- IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- course_outline ↗Winter 2025
- course_outline ↗Winter 2024
- course_outline ↗Fall 2018
- Official public PDF outline or course description. Materials and topic extracts may be partial; consult the linked source for the full list. Display title supplied from the current catalogue; use the source for the historical topic title.
- Official public PDF outline or course description. Materials and topic extracts may be partial; consult the linked source for the full list. Display title supplied from the current catalogue; use the source for the historical topic title.
- Public departmental course outline. Source may be archival; no current-term assignment is implied. Bibliographic details are preserved in textbook notes.