ADR Awareness Centre

This lecture overviews Digital Image Restoration that has many applications in scientific/medical imaging and in digital photography.

This lecture overviews Computational Aesthetics  that has many applications in visual arts and computer graphics. It covers the following topics in detail: Neuroaesthetics. Computational Aesthetics. Critical problems in aesthetics.

This lecture overviews Image Formation, which is of primary importance in ensuring image quality and enabling image processing. It covers the following topics in detail: Light reflection models. Camera structure and models, e.g., Pinhole Camera.

This lecture overviews spatial image frequency content and image sampling.  Rectangular and hexagonal sampling grids are presented. Sampled image frequency content is analyzed and a 2D version of Shannon theorem is presented.

This lecture overviews Image Filtering, which is very important to ensure high image quality and image denoising.  It covers the following topics in detail: Image noise. 2D FIR filters, including Moving average filters.

This lecture overviews the Human Visual System that has many applications in understanding image perception and image quality issues.  It covers the following topics in detail:  Human Visual System (eyes and visual pathway, stereo vision).