PREMIA (Singapore)

Venue: Programming Lab 2, Block S15, Level 2, Room S15/214, School of Computing, NUS. Please visit http://www.nus.edu.sg/campusmap/ and click "Computing" under "UniversityAdmin/Faculties/Schools" -> "Information Technology Unit-School of Computing". If you are driving, please park at Car Park 10(Cashcard payment) across the road opposite Blk 15.

Admission:
Members of PREMIA: S$580.00
Non-members: S$680.00
Student members of PREMIA*: S$400.00
Student non-members*: S$450.00 (* Limited seats only)
(The above registration fees include instructional material, a textbook and one year free membership renewal for members and one year free membership for non-members).

To register, please visit www.premia-sg.org and register online. Registration will be confirmed upon receipt of registration fee. Please send your cheque to the following address:

Prof Graham Leedham, Head - Division of CPS
(PREMIA Short-Course)
N4-2A.32
School of Computer Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore 639798

Please cross your cheque and make it payable to PREMIA. Please write the name and contact number of each registrant on the back of your cheque. Alternatively, you may pay through interbank transfer. Please email EKLCHAN@ntu.edu.sg for further details.

Registration: Please register online via http://www.premia-sg.org/index.php?option=com_events&event_id=14&task=register
(Registration is closed now).

Synopsis:

This short course provides an introduction to basic image processing techniques with some exposure of the latest advanced development. The course aims at strengthening the attendees the fundamental principles in image acquisition, image processing and manipulation to better serve effective application of these techniques in real applications. Some real-life examples will be used to reinforce the teaching. Matlab/C instructions implementing the image processing techniques will be demonstrated to the attendees. Two 3 hour hands-on sessions are planned to reinforce the principles learned in the course. Attendees can contact the instructor before July if they wish their own images to be used in their hands-on session as well as the objective of processing these images.

Outline:
Day I
–Introduction to digital image processing
–Image Perception
–Image Acquisition and Image Formation
–Common Image File Formats
–Geometric Operations
–Image Transforms
–Linear Image Processing Operations(Point processing/Neighborhood processing/Edge detection)

Day II:
–Multiresolution Image Processing(Gaussian, Laplacian Pyramids/Wavelet and Gabor Transforms)
–Non-linear Operations(Rank Value Filtering/Mathematical Morphology)
–Color Image Processing(Color Spaces and their conversions/Color image enhancement)
–Feature Extraction(Gray level, color, texture and interest points)
–Hands-on Session I

Day III:
–Image Region Segmentation(Split and Merge/Region growing/Feature space clustering)
–Pattern Matching & Statistical Pattern Classification Techniques(Template matching/Minimum Distance Classification/Bayes classification)
–Hands-on Session II

Biography:

Dr. Terence Sim obtained his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in June 2002, with a thesis entitled "Statistics-based Face Rendering and its Application to Face Recognition". His previous degrees are: an M.Sc. from Stanford University in 1991, and a S.B. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1990. Dr. Sim is interested in many aspects of computer vision and image-based rendering, especially issues that require the use of machine learning. He believes strongly in applying such inter-disciplinary techniques to solve real-world problems: multimedia, music analysis, digital photography. Currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Dr. Sim is also passionate about teaching, and getting students excited about research. He currently teaches a graduate course in multimedia, another in movie special effects, and a senior undergraduate course in computer vision. Dr. Sim won the 4th Temasek Young Investigator's Award in 2005. This award is given by the Defence Science and Technology Agency for promising young scientist to pursue security-related work for the benefit of Singapore's national security.

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