Digital Video Signal Processing Lecture Note

Digital Image and Video Processing is a true multimedia, hands-on, Web-intensive, demonstration-rich course on digital image and video processing offered in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UT-Austin. Though intended for an electrical and computer engineering (ECE) curriculum, this junior/senior course attracts students (graduate and undergraduate alike) from various other majors such as psychology; geology; astronomy; mechanical, chemical, and aerospace engineering; and computer science. This popular course regularly attracts more than 80 students and is often the largest upper-division undergraduate class in ECE. There is also a steady enrollment of professionals from the local industries at Austin, Texas. In line with the academic variety of the audience, the main objective of this courses is “to make image processing accessible to an audience with heterogenous backgrounds by augmenting theory with numerous visual examples.” Introductory material covered in this course includes binary image processing, image analysis, and image enhancement, while the more advanced material covers topics like Hough transforms, edge detection and video processing.