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Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

Image Acquisition, Handling and Processing

Code

7412

Academic unit

Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

Department

Departamento de Informática

Credits

5.0

Teacher in charge

António Eduardo Cardoso Pinto Baptista Dias, Nuno Manuel Robalo Correia

Weekly hours

5

Total hours

75

Teaching language

Português

Objectives

The course describes the different computational techniques for image acquisition, representation and processing. Students are intended to learn about the different formats and their applications. The hypermedia mechanisms and their relation with the Internet and Web technologies will be analysed. Multimedia authoring process will be studied.

 

Objectives
Knowledge
  • The main charateristics of the different types of media and their computational representation.
  • Identify the different computational techniques for image aquisition, representation and processing.
  • Undestand the hypermedia mechanisms.
  • Build multimedia nd hypermedia documents integrating images and other types of media.
Know-how
  • Use tools for image edition and analysis.
  • Develop multimedia applications with visual language tools.
Soft-Skills
  • Undestand the whole process of image editing and analysis.
  • Ability to write a proposal for a multimedia project.
  • Ability to interact and specify requirements for the different participants in a multimedia project.
  • Ability to document the process of conservation and restore.

Subject matter

1. Introduction to Computers

1. Architecture
2. Information representation
3. User interface
4. Web

2. Multimedia Information

1. Text, images, audio, video
2. Sampling and signal representation
3. Formats and standards for representation, compression and transmission

 3. Hypermedia

1. Concepts: Structure and navigation
2. Hypermedia on the Internet
3. HTML

 4. Image

1. Representation
2. Compression
3. Color
4. Image Processing
5. Histograms
6. Filters, convolution
7. Noise removal, image restoration
8. Edge detection
9. Segmentation

5. Construction of multimedia documents

1. Authoring tools
2. Authoring paradigms
3. Example: Adobe Flash CS3

4. The ActionScript language 

Bibliography

Hypermedia

Multimedia and Hypertext, Jakob Nielsen, Academic Press, 1996

Image Processing

Introduction to Document Image Processing Techniques, R. Matteson, Artech House, 1995

Teaching method

Lectures and laboratory classes with projects.

Evaluation method

Final Exam (60%). Laboratory sessions (40%). Grade above 10 for each of the components.

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