198:334   Introduction to Imaging and Multimedia

Spring 2011

 

 

 

 

CS334 Course Syllabus

 

 

Instructor: Dr. Ahmed Elgammal -- email: elgammal a-t cs  rutgers  edu

Office hours: Mon 2:30-4:30pm  CoRE 316

 

TAs: Tarek El-Gaaly (tgaaly) and Turgay Senlet (tsenlet)

TA Office hours: TBA, will be held at CBIM lab

 

Class Calendar and Lecture Slides and Assignments

 

 

Regular class time:

 

Lectures: M&Th 12:00- 1:20pm   SEC-210

Recitations and Lab:

Sec 01 M                 10:35-11:30AM    SEC-203

Sec 02 Th                6:55-7:50PM         HLL-009

 

 

  

Overview:

This is a basic undergraduate-level class that intends to cover fundamentals image processing, computer vision, and multimedia computing.

 

Topics:

 

Introduction to Multimedia: Historical overview, multimedia representations, software tools, authoring tools.

 

Basics of Image Formation: Camera and lenses, image formation, basic camera models and geometry. Image formats. Colors in images and videos.

 

Image Computing I: Binary image analysis: The basics of processing 2D images thresholding, connected component analysis, mathematical morphology, shape descriptors. Application: implementation of a simple Optical Character Recognition (OCR) System.

 

Image Computing II: Low level processing of images: Convolution, basics of Fourier transform, edge detection, texture representation and synthesis, image segmentation.

 

Video Processing: Fundamental concepts of video, image and video compression, MPEG video coding, MPEG4,7 and beyond.

 

Audio Processing: Basics of digital audio, quantization and transmission of Audio. Audio compression, Audio MPEG.

 

Multimedia applications:  content-based retrieval in digital libraries: case studies.

  

Recommended Background:

Linear algebra and basic probability and statistics. 

 

PreReq:

 

198:112 OR 14:332:351 &

198:206 OR 14-332:321 &

640:250

 

Textbook

 

W. Burger & M. Burger ÒDigital Image Processing: An algorithmic introduction using JavaÓ, Springer 978-1-84628-379-6

 

Z. Li and M. S. Drew, ÒFundamentals of MultimediaÓ, Prentice Hall 0-13-061872-1

 

 

Other useful textbooks

 

L. Shapiro, G. C. Stockman ÒComputer VisionÓ, Prentice Hall.

 

 

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