Prof. Michel Kocher
In this course 2 major approaches of image processing will
be developed. First, the linear approach based on the Signal Processing theory.
This methodology is based on linear models, convolution, Fourier transform,
correlation and filter design. Second, a non-linear approach provided by the
Mathematical Morphology framework. This paradigm, developed in France about 50
years ago only used minimum and maximum operators as well as intersection,
union and negation. It produces astonishing good results, very robust to noise
and is, in certain cases a very interesting alternative to the linear approach.
These 2 methodologies will be described in theory and with numerous
applications taken from the industrial world as well as from the biomedical
domain. The students will apply the described algorithms by the help of the Matlab language and the Image Processing toolbox. At the
end of the course, the students will be able to describe an image processing
problem in term of different algorithms. They will also be able to program some
of them and to compare them in term of speed performance (complexity) and noise
robustness.
Michel Kocher is a
professor of Computer Science at HEIG-Vd, Switzerland