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Digital Image Processing
DR TANIA STATHAKIREADER (ASSOCIATE PROFFESOR) IN SIGNAL PROCESSINGIMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON
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Introduction
“One picture is worth more than ten thousand words”
Anonymous
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Miscellanea
Teacher:
Dr. Tania Stathaki, Reader (Associate Professor) in Signal Processing, Imperial College London
Lectures:
•Mondays 11:00 – 12:00, 408
•Thursdays 10:00 – 11:00, 509
Web Site: http://www.commsp.ee.ic.ac.uk/~tania/
Course notes and slides will be available here
E-mail: [email protected]
Office: 812
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Logistics of the course
Duration• 20 lectures
Assessment• 100% exam• There isn't any coursework or homework
Textbook• “Digital Image Processing”, Rafael C. Gonzalez & Richard E.
Woods, Addison-Wesley, 2002
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Content of this lecture
This lecture will cover:• What is a digital image?• What is digital image processing?• History of digital image processing• Image processing problems• Material covered in this course• Applications of image processing
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Digital Image
• What is a digital image?
• In what form is a digital image stored?
• Why are we able to use digital images?
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What is a Digital Image?
A digital image is a representation of a two-dimensional image as a finite set of digital values, called picture elements or pixels
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What is a Digital Image? (cont…)
Pixel values typically represent gray levels, colors, distance from camera, etc.
Remember digitization implies that a digital image is an approximation of a real scene
1 pixel
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In What Form is a Digital Image Stored?
Common image formats include:
• 1 sample per point (grayscale)
• 3 samples per point (Red, Green, and Blue)
• Video (above information plus time)
For most of this course we will focus on grey-scale images
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What is Digital Image and Video Processing?
Digital image (and video) processing focuses on two major tasks• Improvement of pictorial information for human interpretation• Processing of image data for storage, transmission and representation for
autonomous machine perception
Some argument about where image processing ends and fields such as image analysis and computer vision start !
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What is DIP? (cont…)
The continuum from image processing to computer vision can be broken up into low-, mid- and high-level processes
Low Level Process
Input: ImageOutput: Image
Examples: Noise removal, image sharpening
Mid Level Process
Input: Image Output: Attributes
Examples: Object recognition, segmentation
High Level Process
Input: Attributes Output: Understanding
Examples: Scene understanding, autonomous navigation
In this course we will stop here
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In Terms of Signal Representation
Digital Image and Video Processing is the manipulation of still and moving images, treated as multidimensional signals
• still images
• moving images
• other signals (CT, MRI)
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History of Digital Image Processing
Early 1920s: One of the first applications of digital imaging was in the newspaper industry
• The Bartlane cable picture transmission service• Images were transferred by submarine cable between London and New York• Pictures were coded for cable transfer and reconstructed at the receiving end
on a telegraph printer
Early digital image
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History of DIP (cont…)
Mid to late 1920s: Improvements to the Bartlane system resulted in higher quality images
• New reproduction processes based on photographic techniques
• Increased number of tones in reproduced images
Improved digital image
Early 15 tone digital image
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History of DIP (cont…)
1960s: Improvements in computing technology and the onset of the space race led to a surge of work in digital image processing
• 1964: Computers used to improve the quality of images of the moon taken by the Ranger 7 probe
• Such techniques were usedin other space missions including the Apollo landings
A picture of the moon taken by the Ranger 7 probe minutes before landing
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History of DIP (cont…)
1970s: Digital image processing begins to be used in medical applications• 1979: Sir Godfrey N.
Hounsfield & Prof. Allan M. Cormack share the Nobel Prize in medicine for the invention of tomography, the technology behind Computerised Axial Tomography (CAT) scans
Typical head slice CAT image
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Digital Image Acquisition: Sampling
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Sampling and Quantisation
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Sampling and Quantisation cont.
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Key Stages in Digital Image Processing
Image Acquisition
Image Restoration
Image Compression
Morphological Processing
ObjectRecognition
Image Enhancement
Segmentation
Real life sceneColour Image Processing
Representation & Description
Image Modelling
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Image Acquisition
Image Acquisition
Image Restoration
Image Compression
Morphological Processing
ObjectRecognition
Image Enhancement
Segmentation
Real life sceneColour Image Processing
Representation & Description
Image Modelling
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Image Modelling-Image Transforms (Part 1)
Image Acquisition
Image Restoration
Image Compression
Morphological Processing
ObjectRecognition
Image Enhancement
Segmentation
Real life sceneColour Image Processing
Representation & Description
Image Modelling
(Transforms)
Original Image Fourier Transform Amplitude Phase
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Image Enhancement (Part 2)
Image Acquisition
Image Restoration
Image Compression
Morphological Processing
ObjectRecognition
Image Enhancement
Segmentation
Real life sceneColour Image Processing
Representation & Description
Image Modelling
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Image Restoration (Part 3)
Image Acquisition
Image Restoration
Image Compression
Morphological Processing
ObjectRecognition
Image Enhancement
Segmentation
Real life sceneColour Image Processing
Representation & Description
Image Modelling
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Image Compression (Part 4)
Image Acquisition
Image Restoration
Image Compression
Morphological Processing
ObjectRecognition
Image Enhancement
Segmentation
Real life sceneColour Image Processing
Representation & Description
Image Modelling
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Morphological Processing
Image Acquisition
Image Restoration
Image Compression
Morphological Processing
ObjectRecognition
Image Enhancement
Segmentation
Real life sceneColour Image Processing
Representation & Description
Image Modelling
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Segmentation
Image Acquisition
Image Restoration
Image Compression
Morphological Processing
ObjectRecognition
Image Enhancement
Segmentation
Real life sceneColour Image Processing
Representation & Description
Image Modelling
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Object Recognition
Image Acquisition
Image Restoration
Image Compression
Morphological Processing
ObjectRecognition
Image Enhancement
Segmentation
Real life sceneColour Image Processing
Representation & Description
Image Modelling
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Representation and Description
Image Acquisition
Image Restoration
Image Compression
Morphological Processing
ObjectRecognition
Image Enhancement
Segmentation
Real life sceneColour Image Processing
Representation & Description
Image Modelling
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Colour Image Processing
Image Acquisition
Image Restoration
Image Compression
Morphological Processing
ObjectRecognition
Image Enhancement
Segmentation
Real life sceneColour Image Processing
Representation & Description
Image Modelling
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Original Image Fourier Transform Amplitude Phase
Part 1: Image Transforms
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Original Image High Pass Filtering
Part 2: Image Enhancement
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Examples: Image Enhancement
One of the most common uses of DIP techniques: improve quality, remove noise etc
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Distorted Image Restored Image
Part 3: Image Restoration
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Distortion due to camera misfocus
Original image Distorted image
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Distortion due to camera misfocus
Camera lens
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Distortion due to motion
Camera lens
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Distortion due to random noise
Distorted imageOriginal image
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Part IV: Image Compression
Signal-Processing Based:
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Medical images Satellite images Astronomy Industrial inspection Artistic effects Geographical Information Systems Law Human computer interfaces
Applications
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Medicine
Take slice from MRI scan of canine heart, and find boundaries between types of tissue
• Image with gray levels representing tissue density• Use a suitable filter to highlight edges
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Medical ImagesMRI of normal brain
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Medical ImagesX-ray of knee
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Medical ImagesFetal ultrasound
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Satellite imageryVolcanos in Russia and Alaska
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Astronomical images
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Examples: The Hubble Telescope
Launched in 1990 the Hubble telescope can take images of very distant objects
However, an incorrect mirror made many of Hubble’s images useless
Image processing techniques were used to fix this
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Industrial Inspection
• Human operators are expensive, slow and unreliable
• Make machines do the job instead
• Industrial vision systems are used in all kinds of industries
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Artistic Effects
Artistic effects are used to make images more visually appealing, to add special effects and to make composite images
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Geographical Information Systems
Geographic Information Systems• Digital image processing techniques are used extensively to manipulate
satellite imagery• Terrain classification• Meteorology
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Examples: GIS (cont…)
Night-Time Lights of the World data set• Global inventory of human settlement• Not hard to imagine the kind of analysis
that might be done using this data
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Law
Image processing techniques are used extensively by law enforcers
• Number plate recognition for speed cameras/automated toll systems
• Fingerprint recognition• Enhancement of CCTV images
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HCI
• Try to make human computer interfaces more natural• Face recognition• Gesture recognition
• Does anyone remember the user interface from “Minority Report”?
• These tasks can be extremely difficult