Workshop on

Image Processing and Computer Vision

Theme of the workshop:

Digital Image Processing and Computer Vision

Need of the workshop

Computer vision is an interdisciplinary field that deals with how computers can be made to gain high-
level understanding from digital images or videos. From the perspective of engineering, it seeks to
automate tasks that the human visual system can do. Computer vision tasks include methods for
acquiring, processing, analyzing and understanding digital images, and in general, deal with the extraction
of high-dimensional data from the real world in order to produce numerical or symbolic information, e.g.,
in the forms of decisions. Understanding in this context means the transformation of visual images (the
input of the retina) into descriptions of the world that can interface with other thought processes and elicit
appropriate action. This image understanding can be seen as the disentangling of symbolic information
from image data using models constructed with the aid of geometry, physics, statistics, and learning
theory.As a scientific discipline, computer vision is concerned with the theory behind artificial systems
that extract information from images. The image data can take many forms, such as video sequences,
views from multiple cameras, or multi-dimensional data from a medical scanner. As a technological
discipline, computer vision seeks to apply its theories and models for the construction of computer vision
systems.Sub-domains of computer vision include scene reconstruction, event detection, video tracking,
object recognition, object pose estimation, learning, indexing, motion estimation, and image restoration.

There is tremendous need of engineers in the industries like Adobe, KLA-Tencor, Intellivision, Sony,
Samsung etc. to solve computer vision and image processing related challenges.

Objectives:

1. To create interest among final year students of E&TC engineering department about computer
vision related applications
2. Develop a theoretical foundation of fundamental Digital Image Processing concepts.
3. Provide mathematical foundations for digital manipulation of images; image acquisition;
preprocessing; segmentation; Fourier domain processing; and compression.
4. To introduce students about hands on knowledge about cutting edge technologies like MATLAB

Workshop Outcomes:

Knowledge and Understanding

Have a clear understanding of the principals the Digital Image Processing terminology used to
describe features of images.
Have a good understanding of the mathematical foundations for digital manipulation of images;
image acquisition; preprocessing; segmentation; Fourier domain processing, compression and
analysis.
Be able to write programs using Matlab language for digital manipulation of images; image
acquisition; preprocessing; segmentation; Fourier domain processing; and compression.
 Have knowledge of the Digital Image Processing Systems.
Be able to understand the documentation for, and make use of, the MATLAB library and
MATLAB Digital Image Processing Toolbox (IPT).
Learn and understand the Image Enhancement in the Spatial Domain.
Learn and understand the Image Enhancement in the Frequency Domain.
Understand the Image Restoration, Compression, Segmentation, Recognition, Representation and
Description.

Cognitive skills (thinking and analysis).

Be able to use different digital image processing algorithms.
Be able to design, code and test digital image processing applications using MATLAB language.
Be able to use the documentation for, and make use of, MATLAB library and MATLAB Digital
Image Processing Toolbox (IPT).
Analyze a wide range of problems and provide solutions related to the design of image processing
systems through suitable algorithms, structures, diagrams, and other appropriate methods.

Practical and subject specific skills (Transferable Skills).

Plan and undertake a major individual image processing project.
Be able to work effectively alone or as a member of a small group working on some
programming tasks.
Be able to write programs in Matlab language for digital manipulation of images; image
acquisition;preprocessing; segmentation; Fourier domain processing; and compression.