Digital Image Processing

Introduction: definition, problems, and applications of digital image processing. Digital image acquisition devices. Digital image formats. Edge detection techniques, segmentation methods. Image Morphology. Image enhancement. Image restoration techniques. Morphology. Fourier transform and Wavelet transform in image processing. Image registration techniques. Shape analysis. Image understanding. Artificial neural network and image understanding. Colour representation standards, equations, processing, quantization, and dithering. Case study: practical application of image processing to face recognition, fingerprint, iris, etc. Introduction to image compression techniques.