Image Processing

Associated faculty: Karl, Konrad

Image processing is a rapidly evolving field with growing applications in both professional and consumer markets. While computer-aided tomography (CAT), extensively used in life sciences, is an example of application in the professional market, digital photography is an example of a very successful application in the consumer market. Fundamental issues studied in this thrust cover problems related to visual perception, sampling and quantization of visual data, image restoration and enhancement, image segmentation, and image recognition, as well as image transmission and storage (image compression, watermarking, authentication, etc.)