GEOS 622 Overview |
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Syllabus & Notes |
0. Course overview and essentials (download/view pdf document, 20 kB)
1. Fundamentals of image processing
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1.1. Images: Image representation, components of an image
processing sequence
1.2. Image acquisition and digitization: Biology and optics of
image processing, cameras, scanners and other acquisition devices;
digitization
2. Greyvalue histograms and point operations
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2.1. Greyvalue histograms: Greyvalue distributions &
statistics, thresholding & segmentation
2.2. Point operations: Histogram transforms, pixels, gridding
& quantization
3. Spatial transforms (download/view
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3.1. Geometric transformations: Interpolation, geometric
operations and projections
3.2. Linear filtering: Neighbourhoods, kernels, convolutions
& their applications
3.3. Non-linear filtering: Morphological operators, erosion
& dilation of binary and greyscale images, variant
operations
4. Frequency domain transforms
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4.1. Fourier transforms: 1-D and 2-D transforms
4.2. Applications of frequency domain transforms: Analysis,
restoration &compression of images
5. Pattern recognition: Image segmentation & texture analysis (download/view
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5.1. Global and local thresholding
5.2. Gradient/edge detection
5.3. Adaptive segmentation
5.4. Texture analysis: Definitions and measures of
texture, point- and neighbourhood-based methods
6. Processing of colour and multi-spectral
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part 2/2)
6.1. Acquisition and representation: Image acquisition
from colour camera, spectral radiometer etc.; colour representations
and transforms
6.2. Multispectral transforms: Statistics, principal component
analysis, classification
7. Object measurements
7.1. Size, shape and orientation: Statistics of size
distributions, resolution and scale; shape analysis, orientational
statistics
7.2. Stereological models and microstructural analysis
7.3. Analysis of 3-D data sets
8. Image-processing applications in the geosciences: Strategies, applications and caveats - A summary
Class schedule till end of semester
Week 6, Oct 15 & 18 (Spatial transforms); October 18 9.30-12.00 with discussion of semester project (please come prepared)
Week 7, Oct 22 (Spatial transforms, Frequency-domain transforms) & 25 (9.30-12.00 noon) (Frequency-domain transforms)
Week 8, Oct 29 & Wednesday Oct 31, 8.45-10.15am (Frequency-domain transforms and image segmentation); Homework #2 due Oct 30 5.00pm
Week 9, Nov 5, Quiz #1 (everything up to spatial filtering); Nov 8 – no class
Week 10, Nov 12 & 15 – no class
Week 11, Nov 19 (Nov 22 Thanksgiving Break), Homework #3 due Nov 20 5.00pm
Week 12, Nov 26 (Pattern recognition & multispectral analysis) & 29 (9.30-12.00 noon) (multispectral analysis)
Week 13, Dec 3 & 6 (9.30-12.00 noon); Presentations on Thursday 12/6; Dec 7 9.30-11.00am Quiz 2, WRRB 101
Week 14, Dec 10, Quiz #2 10-11.30am WRRB 101 & Dec 13: AGU no class; Homework #4 due Friday Dec 14
Week 15, hand in final project report by Dec 18, 5.00pm
Original, tentative schedule:
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Week 1 |
Fundamentals |
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Week 2 |
Fundamentals; Grey values and point operations |
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Week 3 |
Grey values and point operations |
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Week 4 |
Spatial transforms (1st homework assigment due Oct 5) |
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Week 5 |
Spatial transforms |
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Week 5 |
Spatial transforms |
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Week 6 |
Frequency-domain transforms |
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Week 6 |
Frequency-domain transforms (1st quiz - covers everything up to and including spatial transforms) |
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Week 7 |
Frequency-domain transforms |
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Week 7 |
Spatial/frequency-domain transforms: Synthesis |
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Week 8 |
Pattern recognition: Image segmentation |
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Week 8 |
Pattern recognition: Texture analysis (2nd homework assignment due) |
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Week 9 |
Pattern recognition |
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Week 9 |
Pattern recognition, Quiz #1 |
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Week 10 |
Multispectral analysis |
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Week 10 |
Multispectral analysis |
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Week 11 |
Multispectral analysis (2nd quiz) |
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Week 11 |
Outline semester project: Problem, proposed solution, data etc. |
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Week 12 |
Multispectral analysis |
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Week 12 |
Synthesis |
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Week 13 |
Synthesis (3rd homework assignment due) |
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Week 13 |
Synthesis/Project Presentations |
Week 14 |
Project Presentations (4th homework assignment due) |
| Week 15 | Final exams week - Project work complete by Tuesday Dec 18 |
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Last update: November 26, 2007 |
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