27^th September 2000

10:30 Coffee and registration - Nelson Complex, DERA Malvern

11:00 Welcome - Dr Chris West (DERA)

11:10    Introduction: Image Modelling

Dr Margaret Varga (DERA)

• Image basic functions
• Discrete transform

11:40 Image Enhancement

Dr Margaret Varga (DERA)

• Point/corner operations
• Histogram modelling
• Spatial operations
• Transform operations
• Multispectral image enhancement
• Pseudo-colour

12:30 Lunch

13:30 Digital Image Processing and Applications

Professor Mike Brady (University of Oxford)

• What is a "feature"? – conventional feature detection, the phase congruency approach: various applications
• Image matching, communication, and learning
• The role of AI: adaptive image analysis systems

14:50 Feature Detection/Extraction/Representation

Dr Paul Ducksbury (DERA)

• Spatial feature extraction
• Edge detection
• Boundary extraction/representation
• Region representation

15:35 Tea and discussion

16:00 Image Registration and Change Detection

Mr Phil Kent (DERA)

• Area correlation
• Feature matching
• Phase techniques
• Re-sampling and Warping
• Change detection

17:00 Breast Image Analysis: a principled approach to image processing

Professor Mike Brady (University of Oxford)

• X-ray image formation: enhancing mammograms
• MRI and contrast-enhanced MRI: breast MRI

18:00 End of Day One

19:00 Evening event (including dinner)

  

28^th September 2000

09:00 Image Database Retrieval

Dr Farzin Mokhtarian (University of Surrey)

• Introduction to image database systems
• Commercial database systems
• Conventional database theory
• Case study of DIMAP system
• Content based retrieval including shape, texture, colour and edges
• Case study of QBIC and SQUID systems
• Video database systems in brief

10:00 Introduction to Wavelet Analysis

Mr Graham Watson (DERA)

• Harr transform
• Orthogonal wavelets
• Bi-orthogonal wavelets
• Variable shape wavelets and wavelet packets
• Feature detection and extraction

11:00 Tea and discussion

11:30 Texture Analysis

Dr Doug Carmichael (DERA)

• Parametric texture models
• Feature based discrimination
• Physical scattering models
• Non-parametric techniques
• Fast classifier algorithms

12:30 Shape Analysis

Dr Farzin Mokhtarian (University of Surrey)

• Concept of shape similarity
• Global shape measures, Compactness, Eccentricity, Rectangularity
• Shape descriptors, Moments, Fourier Descriptors
• Curvature Scale Space Representation
• CSS computation, properties and examples
• CSS matching
• Retrieval under affine transforms
• Application to robust, multi-view object recognition

13:30 Lunch

14:30 Image Projection

Dr Roberto Cipolla (University of Cambridge)

• Orthographic, weak perspective projection, pin-hole camera model and perspective
• Lengths, area, parallelism (vanishing points) and symmetry under affine and perspective projection, co-ordinate transformations, homogenous co-ordinates
• Projection, calibration and pose estimation
• Projective invariants: cross ratio, 2D and 3D invariants

15:30 Image Sequence Analysis

Dr Mark Hodgetts (SIRA)

• Image segmentation using Markov Random Fields
  - Basic theory

- Optimisation methods

• MRF extension to Image Sequences by exploiting:
  - Continuity in Space-Time
  - Predictive Kalman Filter Theory

• Introduction to Optical flow
  - Horn and Schunk’s Algorithm
  - Recent Advances

16:30 Tea and discussion

17:00 Stereo Vision & 3D Reconstruction

Dr Roberto Cipolla (University of Cambridge)

• Stereo vision
• Epipolar geometry
• Essential and Fundamental matrices
• Projective, affine and euclidean reconstruction
  

18:00 End of Day Two

19:00 for 19:30 - Course dinner

 

29^th September 2000

09:00 Image Compression

Dr Margaret Varga (DERA)

• Lossless and lossy compression techniques
• Still image compression
• Video image compression
• Compression standards

09:45 Colour Processing

Professor Maria Petrou (University of Surrey)

• Colour spaces
• Colour texture
• Colour constancy
• Colour models

10:45 Tea and discussion

11:15 Supervised and Unsupervised Classification

Dr Andrew Webb (DERA)

• Supervised learning
• Non-supervised learning/clustering

12:15 Lunch

13:30 Overview of Fusion of Information

Professor Maria Petrou (University of Surrey)

• Bayesian systems
• Fuzzy Logic

14:30 Real-time Hardware Architectural Design

Dr Bill Smith (DERA)

• Requirements for real-time image processing architectures
• Multiprocessor architectures
• Interprocessor communications
• Processor technologies – GPP, DSP and FPGA
• Software frameworks for real-time systems

15:30 Tea and end of course