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AMME5710: Computer Vision and Image Processing

2025 unit information

This unit of study introduces students to vision sensors, computer vision analysis and digital image processing. This unit will cover the following areas: fundamental principles of vision sensors such as physics laws, radiometry, CMOS/CDD imager architectures, colour reconstruction; the design of physics-based models for vision such as reflectance models, photometric invariants, radiometric calibration. This course will also present algorithms for video/image analysis, transmission and scene interpretation. Topics such as image enhancement, restoration, stereo correspondence, pattern recognition, object segmentation and motion analysis will be covered.

Unit details and rules

Managing faculty or University school:

Engineering

Study level Postgraduate
Academic unit Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic
Credit points 6
Prerequisites:
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30 credit points of any 3000- or higher level Engineering units of study and (ENGG1801 or ENGG1810 or INFO1110 or INFO1910)
Corequisites:
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None
Prohibitions:
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AMME4710
Assumed knowledge:
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The unit assumes that students have strong skills in either MATLAB or Python

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Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Semester 2 2025
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
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