Unit

Topics for Coverage  

Component 1

Unit 1

Digital Image Fundamentals‐ Simple image model, digital image formation, sampling, quantization, resolutions and representation, relationship among pixels, types of digital images. Color Image Processing: Color Representation, Chromaticity Diagram and Color Spaces, types of digital imaging and application areas. Enhancement‐ Point Processing:  Contrast Stretching, Power‐law and Gamma Transformation. Histogram Processing: Histogram Equalization and Matching.

Unit 2

Filtering and Restoration‐ Degradation function and Noise Models, Spatial Domain Filtering: Correlation and Convolution, Smoothing Linear and Nonlinear Filters: Mean and Median Filters, Adaptive Filtering, Sharpening Linear and Nonlinear Filters:  Derivative, Laplacian, Unsharp Masking, High‐boost Filtering. Frequency Domain Filtering: Filtering: Low‐pass (Smoothing) & High‐Pass (Sharpening), Ideal, Butterworth and Gaussian Filtering, Unsharp Masking and High‐Boost  Filtering,  Homomorphic  Filtering,  Periodic  Noise Reduction and Inverse Filtering & Wiener Filtering.

Component  2

Unit 3

 Edges, Lines and Boundary Detection‐ First and Second Order Edge Operators,  Multi‐scale  Edge  Detection,  Canny  Edge  Detection Algorithm,   Hough   Transform:   Line   and   Edge   Detection, Morphological Operations and Application:  Boundary, Skelton, Convex‐Hull, Thinning, Pruning etc.  Segmentation  &  Feature Extraction:  Model‐based  and  probabilistic  methods  and  Image Classification  Optimal  and  Multilevel  Thresholding,  Gray  Image Segmentation, Watershed Algorithm.

Unit 4

Compression:  Lossy  and  Lossless  compression  techniques,  JPEG, JPEG2000  and  Variants,  Introduction  to  video  processing, Compression  standards  and  formats  (MPEG  &  H.XXX),  Video Streaming.