Enticing general engineering undergrads into signal processing with Photo-Editing and image search

The University of Cambridge is unusual in that its Department of Engineering is a single department which covers virtually all branches of engineering `under one roof'. In their first two years of study, our undergrads study the full breadth of engineering topics and then have to choose a speci...

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Published in2011 IEEE Digital Signal Processing Workshop and IEEE Signal Processing Education Workshop pp. 390 - 395
Main Author Kingsbury, Nick
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.01.2011
Subjects
adaptive image enhancement
Basic image processing
Convolution
Gaussian filtering
Histograms
Image color analysis
Interpolation
Lighting
Noise
photo editing in Matlab
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Summary:The University of Cambridge is unusual in that its Department of Engineering is a single department which covers virtually all branches of engineering `under one roof'. In their first two years of study, our undergrads study the full breadth of engineering topics and then have to choose a specialization area for the final two years of study. Here we describe part of a course, given towards the end of their second year, which is designed to entice these students to specialize in signal processing and information engineering topics for years 3 and 4. The course is based around a photo editor and an image search application, and it requires no prior knowledge of the z-transform or of 2-dimensional signal processing. It does assume some knowledge of 1-D convolution and basic Fourier methods and some prior exposure to Matlab. The subject of this paper, the photo editor, is written in standard Matlab m-files which are fully visible to the students and help them to see how specific algorithms are implemented in detail.
ISBN:1612842267
9781612842264
DOI:10.1109/DSP-SPE.2011.5739246