Math 155, Lecture 1, Spring 2006

Mathematical Imaging

Lecture Meeting Time: MWF 1.00PM - 1:50PM.
Lecture Location: MS 5117.
Discussion Section: T 1.00PM - 1:50PM, MS 5117.

Instructor: Luminita A. Vese
Office: MS 7620D
Office hours: M3-4, W3-4pm, Friday after 3pm (schedule subject to change), or by appointment.
E-mail: lvese@math.ucla.edu

Teaching Assistant: Ben Cook, E-mail: bencook@math.ucla.edu
Office: MS 7310.
Office hours: M 2-3, F 12-1 in MS 7310.

Textbooks:
Required: Rafael C. Gonzalez and Richard E. Woods, Digital Image Processing, 2nd edition, Prentice-Hall, 2002.
(placed on reserve for 2 hours/overnight at SEL Library).
Recommended: R.C. Gonzalez, R.E. Woods and S.L. Eddins, Digital Image Processing Using Matlab, Prentice-Hall, 2004.

Pre-requisites: courses 32B and 33B, 115A and PIC 10A.

Useful Links:

Virtual Office Hours

PIC Lab: Boelter Hall 2817 and Mathematical Sciences 3970
http://www.pic.ucla.edu/piclab/

MATLAB Documentation (thanks to Prof. C. Anderson, UCLA)

Class Web Page: http://www.math.ucla.edu/~lvese/155.1.06s/

Getting started with MATLAB

Assignments Policy: There will be several homework assignments on theoretical questions and computer projects. Homework will be assigned every week and collected the next week. Please start working from now at the PIC Lab, using the computer language Matlab.

Examinations:

One Midterm Exam: Monday, May 15.
Sections covered for the midterm: 2.3.4, 2.4 (except 2.4.4), 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4.1, 3.4.2, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, Chapter 4 (except 4.3.4, 4.6.6, 4.6.7).
Definitions and proofs of properties of various filters and transforms will be given (up to 5 questions). There will be no programming questions.

One Final exam: Friday, June 9.
These are closed note and closed book written exams.

Grading Policy: HW 35%, Midterm 30%, Final 35%

Class materials:

SampleMatlabCode.m

Illustration of shifting the center of the FT in 1D

Matlab code for the example above of computing the DFT in 1D and shifting the center

Matlab code reproducing the result in Fig. 4.3, using the DFT and IDFT
Fig4.03(a).jpg

The following material is obtained from the book web page:

http://www.imageprocessingplace.com/

Errata to the textbook