Image Processing and Analysis

Lecturer (Coordinator):
José Crespo
jcrespo@fi.upm.es
Lecturer:
Raúl Alonso
ralonso@fi.upm.es

Semester

Second semester

Credits

4 ECTS

Outline

This subject explores major image processing and analysis techniques. These days, image information availability is growing and adequate techniques and methods are needed to process and analyse the relevant information for this data type.

This course will stress morphological processing and analysis, which is particularly useful for image processing and analysis systems because it can satisfactorily account for image structure patterns within a sound and elegant formal framework based, above all, on set and lattice theory.

This subject will address both the filtering and the region of interest analysis and segmentation phases, discussing their distinctive features.

This subject will deal with algorithmic and implementation-related issues of some operators and techniques, examining efficient implementations. The use of queuing algorithms will be examined. Aspects of data structures, formats and storage will be commented.

Learning Goals

  • Understand the theoretical foundations of image data processing and analysis
  • Learn filtering techniques, and segmentation methods for separating regions of interest
  • Extract relevant features of input images
  • Analyse some relevant image classification methods, and study image indexation and image searching techniques and applications

Syllabus

  1. Introduction
  2. Filtering
    1. Introduction
    2. Morphological filtering
    3. Other techniques
  3. Segmentation and extraction of features and regions of interest
    1. Introduction to image segmentation and feature extraction
    2. Morphological approaches
    3. Other methods
  4. Image classification
    1. Introduction
    2. Image features for clustering and learning
    3. Indexation of images
    4. Image search applications

Recommended Reading

Prerequisites

  • Programming skills.
  • Program development in a general purpose programming language as Java, C or C++.

Lecture Theatre

A-6202

Tuition language

English

Subject-Specific Competences

Code, description and proficiency level for each subject-specific competence
Code Competence Proficiency Level
CEM7 Evaluation and application of diverse mathematical and statistical theories, and available knowledge extraction and discovery processes, methods and techniques for large data volumes A
CEM8 Application of the theoretical and mathematical foundations of heterogeneous functions and data processing and analysis and evaluation and design of related methods for application in practical domains S

Learning Outcomes

Code, description and proficiency level for each subject learning outcome
Code Learning Outcome Associated competences Proficiency level
RA-APDI-65 Understand the theoretical foundations of image data processing and analysis CEM7, CEM8 A
RA-APDI-66 Be able to apply and comparatively evaluate image processing techniques considering their efficient implementation and be familiar with image data warehousing system problems CEM7, CEM8 S
RA-APDI-67 Be able to apply and comparatively evaluate image processing methods for segmenting regions of interest and obtaining characteristic parameters, considering their efficient implementation CEM7, CEM8 S

Learning Guide

Learning Guide: Image Processing and Analysis