Sensor and Vision Systems

Undergraduate

Basics of sensors and transducers; sensor characteristics and applications; fundamentals of pressure, temperature, displacement and position sensors; accelerometer physics, strain gauges, and torque sensors; machine vision; image processing, image enhancement, edge and corner detectors; image segmentation techniques; image feature extraction and matching; colour models and processing; object recognition and classification; discussion on camera parameters and calibration; stereo vision, 3D range imaging techniques. (Prerequisites: completion of all Electrical Engineering courses from 1st year, 2nd year and 3rd year.) (3 lecture, 2 laboratory/tutorial hours a week.)