Basic concepts, Image digitization, Digital image properties
Image pre-processing: Brightness and geometrictransformations, local preprocessing.
Thresholding, Edge-based segmentation.
Region based segmentation, Matching
Image enhancement in the spatial domain:Background, Some basic gray level transformations, Histogram processing,Enhancement using arithmetic/ logic operations, Basics of spatial filtering,Smoothing spatial filters, Sharpening spatial filters. Image enhancement in thefrequency domain: Background, Introduction to the Fourier transform and thefrequency domain, Smoothing Frequency-Domain filters, SharpeningFrequency Domain filters, Homomorphic filtering.
Image compression: Fundamentals, Image compressionmodels, Elements of information theory, Error-Free Compression, Lossycompression.
Region identification, Contour-based shaperepresentation and description, Region based shape representation anddescription, Shape classes.
Basic morphological concepts, Morphology principles, Binarydilation and erosion, Gray-scale dilation and erosion, Morphologicalsegmentation and watersheds