(IT/PC/B/T/424) Digital Image Processing

Fundamentals: Overview of Image Processing System, image digitization (sampling and quantization),
basic relationship between pixels, Fundamentals of Color image and Color Models
Image Transform: Fourier transform (1D, 2D) and its properties, FFT, DCT, Hadamard transform,
Karhunen – Loeve transforms.
Image Enhancement: Spatial Domain methods- Contrast Intensification (linear and nonlinear
stretching), Histogram equalization, Histogram specification, Spatial filtering: Smoothing (liner, order-
statistic), sharpening filters (Laplacian), Frequency domain filters : Smoothing, Sharpening filters,
Homomorphic filtering.
Image Segmentation: Detection of discontinuities (point, line & edge), Edge Linking and Edge
Following by Local Processing, Hough Transform, Region Extraction by Pixel based Approach
(Thresholding, Choice of Feature, Optimum Threshold etc.), Region Extraction by Region based
Approach (Region Growing, Splitting, Merging, Split and Merge).
Morphological Image Processing: Preliminaries, Erosion and Dilation, Opening and Closing, Some
Basic Morphological Algorithms: boundary extraction, region filling.
Image representation & description: Representation: Chain Codes, Polygonal Approximation,
Skeletons, medial axis transform, thinning, Descriptor: shape number, Fourier descriptor, statistical
moments, Geometrical Attributes (perimeter, area, etc.), Texture Descriptor (GLCM).
Image Compression: Objective, Feasibility, performance measure, lossy/lossless compression, Huffman
coding, Arithmetic coding, block truncation coding, vector quantization, JPEG.

After completing this course the students should be able to:

CO1: Review the fundamental concepts of digital image processing (K2)

CO2: Analyze images in the transform domain using different transforms like FT, DCT, HT, KLT, etc.
(K3)

CO3 : Demonstrate the techniques for image enhancement. (K3)

CO4: Illustrate different techniques of Image segmentation including morphology. (K3)

CO5 : Interpret image representation and description techniques. (K3)

CO6 : Describe and illustrate various image compression techniques. (K3)

CO-PO Mapping (3 – Strong, 2 – Moderate and 1 – Weak)

PO1 PO2 PO3 PO4 PO5 PO6 PO7 PO8 PO9 PO10 PO11 PO12 PSO PSO2 PSO3
1
CO1 3 1 1 1 2 3
Digital Image CO2 2 1 3 1 2 1 2 3
Processing CO3 1 1 3 1 2 1 2 3
CO4 1 1 3 1 2 1 2 3
CO5 1 1 3 1 2 1 2 3
CO6 1 1 3 1 2 1 2 3