About the course

About the lecturer

Students interested in taking this course should register with the Department. The students will form a group of three students and each group will be doing different project in image processing.

Students taking this course MUST have knowledge in programming in MATLAB or other high-level programming languages.

The theme this year: Image Processing and and Its Applications.

Quota: 9 students in 3 groups of three. Please arrange your partner yourselves.

Grade:

• Two Presentations = 30%
• Bi-weekly Project Presentations = 30%.
• Project Defense = 30%
• Project Summary = 10%

• Organization Meeting: September 9 (Wednesday) 4:30pm-5:00pm at my office (Rm 201, Lady Shaw Building)
• First Presentation (on image restoration): 1.5 hours on September 21, 22 or 23
• Second Presentation (on your specific project): 1.5 hours October 5, 6, or 7
• Bi-Weekly Project Meetings (to report on the progress of your project): 45 minutes on October 21, November 04 and 18
• Project Defense: 30 minutes on December 2 (Wednesday)

Reference texts and paper:

• Deblurring Images: Matrices, Spectra, and Filtering, by Per Christian Hansen, James G. Nagy, and Dianne P. O'Leary
• Digital Image Processing using Matlab, by Gonzelez, Woods and Eddins
• Medical Imaging, Signals and Systems, by Jerry L. Prince, and Jonathan M. Links
• R. Chan, M.K. Ng, T.F. Chan, and A.M. Yip, Cosine Transform Preconditioners for High Resolution Image Reconstruction, Linear Algebra Appls., 316 (2000), 89-104

Materials for the first presentation:

Chapters 1 to 3 in Deblurring Images: Matrices, Spectra, and Filtering, by Per Christian Hansen, James G. Nagy, and Dianne P. O'Leary

Projects: to be presented on your second presentation.

• high-resolution image reconstruction: Chen Teng, Wang Tiao, Wu Yi
• computerized tomography (CT): Lee Yin Tat, Lam Chi Yeung, Yip Sai Ho
• magnetic resonance imaging (MRI): Lam Wai Yeung, Lam Wai Kit, Choi Chi Po

Things to know about the presentations and bi-weekly meetings:

• Please make your appointment with me at least a week before the scheduled meeting date.
• We will meet in my office: Rm 201, Lady Shaw Building.
• The first and second presentations: 90 minutes long for each group. Time: 4:30pm-6:00pm.
• The bi-weekly meetings: 45 minutes long for each group. Time slots: 4:30pm-5:15pm, 5:15pm-6:00pm, and 6:00pm-6:45pm.

• Date will be December 2. Time is from 4:30pm to 6:00pm.
• Duration of your whole defense is 30-minute sharp, including 5 minutes Q&A.
• A presentation of your project, including the aim, the problem, the method used, the results obtained, and suggestions for improvement. The presentation should be in Power-Point.