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Image Processing I

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MICRO-511: Image processing I

Introduction to the basic techniques of image processing. Introduction to the development of image-processing software and to prototyping using Jupyter notebooks. Application to real-world examples in industrial vision and biomedical imaging. ...

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This lecture covers fundamental concepts in image processing, including preprocessing techniques such as histogram normalization and combining images through spatial averaging. It also delves into matching and detection methods like correlation and feature extraction, as well as segmentation approaches like variational thresholding. The instructor emphasizes the importance of tasks like contour detection and texture analysis, providing insights into the intricacies of graylevel histograms and linear contrast adjustments. Additionally, the lecture explores local normalization for compensating non-uniformities in images and spatial averaging methods for noise reduction and local statistics estimation. Practical examples and experiments are used to illustrate the concepts of template matching, correlation measures, and impulsive noise reduction.

Instructors (2)

Michaël Unser

Expertise Image Processing, Medical Imaging, Biological Imaging, Wavelets, Splines, Multiresolution Michael Unser is Full Professor with EPFL’s school of Engineering and the academic director of EPFL's Center for Imaging, Lausanne, Switzerland. His primary areas of investigation are signal processing, biomedical imaging and applied functional analysis. He is internationally recognized for his research contributions to sampling theory, wavelets, the use of splines for image processing, stochastic processes,

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville

Expertise Brain and spinal cord imaging, signal and image processing, network science, dynamic systems Teaching & PhD PhD Students Alexandre Cionca, Chun Hei Michael Chan, Flavia Petruso, Bassam El Rawas, Nikolaos Molochidis, Christophe Pascal Jérémie Chênes, Fabrice Jean Guibert, Alessio Siviglia, Ekansh Sareen, Beatrice Lugli Past EPFL PhD Students Djano Kandaswamy, Fikret Isik Karahanoglu, Nora Leonardi, Zafer Dogan, Jeffrey Adam Kasten, Naghmeh Ghazaleh, Rotem Roza Kopel, Daniela Maria Zöller, Thomas

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