The course will make extensive use of MATLAB and the Image Processing Toolbox.
Several of you have expressed a desire for a more convenient local copy of the author's power point presentations. This is for the Third Edition.
It is often interesting to compare what we do in EECS 490 to that done in similar classes at other schools.
CMU's 15-463 Computational Photography.More will be added. Let me know if you come across any other interesting courses.
This is a short list of image processing tutorials which can be found on the Web.
University of Washington's Image Processing tutorial for beginning undergraduate students.Let me know if you come across any other interesting sites.
Check out CMU's Computer Vision Home Page for links to conferences, software, research groups, test images, and the like.
You should also read IEEE's Transactions on Image Processing for the latest research. This site requires you be in the campus network or connected by VPN!
NIH has developed a pretty extensive public domain image processing program called NIH Image. This program was originally developed for the Mac and is now also available by Scion for the PC.
If you have little to no background in Fourier transforms this site may be helpful.
Information about the DARPA Grand Challenge.
Many engineering schools participate in the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition .
Some participating schools include:Virginia Tech's Autonomous Vehicle Team Autonomous Vehicle Team .
Cornell's DARPA Urban Challenge .
Stanford's Racing Team which won the last DARPA Grand Challenge.
Image registration and image warping is used to create Sportvision's "1st and 10" lines for broadcast football games.
Another more controversial application of image processing in sports is the K-Zone system (also developed by Sportvision) to automatically call balls and strikes in baseball.
An increasingly common image processing application is automatic license plate recognition which can be used for everything from parking lot access to automatic traffic ticketing.
Ever wonder how those special effects plug-ins in Photoshop work? John Waltman describes how a number of special effects filters (similar to some of the Photoshop plug-ins) based upon combinations of spatial filtering and geometric distortion (warping) are implemented. His website includes the full source-code and description of the filters. I personally liked the rain-drop filter..