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Image Processing II: Multiresolution Analysis and Wavelet Transform

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MICRO-512: Image processing II

Study of advanced image processing; mathematical imaging. Development of image-processing software and prototyping in Jupyter Notebooks; application to real-world examples in industrial vision and biomedical imaging. ...

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This lecture covers the concept of image pyramids introduced by Burt and Adelson in 1983, the theory of multiresolution analysis by Mallat and Meyer in 1987, and the wavelet transform. It also discusses perfect-reconstruction filterbanks, multirate operations, down-sampling, Hilbert-space interpretation, wavelet decomposition, orthogonal wavelet filters, and the example of Haar filterbank.

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Instructors (4)

Michaël Unser

Daniel Sage

Michael Stefan Daniel Liebling

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville

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Ontological neighbourhood

Information engineering

Signal processing: Time–frequency analysis

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