About the course

About the lecturer

Students interested in taking this course should register with the Department.
The students will form a group of 2 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: 8 students in 4 groups of two. Please arrange your partner yourselves.

Grade:

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

• Organization Meeting: September 7 (Tuesday) 4:30pm-5:00pm at my office (Rm 201, Lady Shaw Building)
• First Presentation (on image restoration): 1.5 hours on September 21 or 22
• Second Presentation (on your specific project): 1.5 hours on October 5 or 6
• Bi-Weekly Project Meetings (to report on the progress of your project): 30 minutes on October 19, November 02 and 16
• Project Defense: 30 minutes on November 30 (Tuesday)

Reference texts and paper:

1. Deblurring Images: Matrices, Spectra, and Filtering, by Per Christian Hansen, James G. Nagy, and Dianne P. O'Leary
2. Medical Imaging, Signals and Systems, by Jerry L. Prince, and Jonathan M. Links
3. 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
4. R. Chan, Y.W. Wen, and A.M. Yip, A Fast Optimization Transfer Algorithm for Image Inpainting in Wavelet Domains, IEEE Trans. Image Proc., 18 (2009), 1467-1476.

Materials for the first presentation:

Chapters 1 to 3 in Reference 1: 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.

• computerized tomography (CT): Chapter 6 in Reference 2
  Xueying Ni and Yaxin Wang
  First Meeting: September 22, 9:30am to 11:00am
  Second Meeting: October 6, 9:30 to 11:00am
  
• magnetic resonance imaging (MRI): Chapters 12 and 13 in Reference 2
  Tony Tung and Tsz Ching Wong
  First Meeting: September 20, 4:15pm to 5:45pm
  Second Meeting: October 5, 4:30pm to 6:00pm
  
• inpainting in the wavelet domain: Reference 4
  Sze Wai Wong and Qi Zhang
  First Meeting: September 21, 4:30pm to 6:00pm
  Second Meeting: October 5, 6:00pm to 7:30pm
  
• high-resolution image reconstruction: Reference 3
  Man Chung Yue and Baoluo Wang
  First Meeting: September 21, 6:00pm to 7:30pm
  Second Meeting: October 7, 5:00pm to 6:30pm
  

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, and 6:00pm-7:30pm.
• The bi-weekly meetings: 30 minutes long for each group. Time slots: 4:30pm-5:00pm, 5:00pm-5:30pm, 5:30pm-6:00pm, and 6:00pm-6:30pm.

• Date will be November 30. Time is from 4:30pm to 6:30pm.
• 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.