Courses / Modules / ELEC6213 Image Processing

Image Processing

When you'll study it: Semester 2
CATS points: 15
ECTS points: 7.5
Level: Level 7
Module lead: Sasan Mahmoodi
Academic year: 2025-26

Module overview

This module is useful to introduce: - Image processing and its relation to signal processing. - Image transformations for filtering, coding and etc. - Histogram processing algorithms to enhance image qualities and visibility. - Theories analysing and understanding images using feature extraction, segmentation, and texture modelling. - Linear and nonlinear methods for shape registration, noise reduction and restoration. - Image classification and object recognition. - Edge detection

Aims and Objectives

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

How computers can process digital images
The relation to signal processing and other fields
How images can be digitised and stored in computers

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

How to do linear and nonlinear filtering on images
What segmentation is and how to do segmentation in digital images
How to extract features from images

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

How to use features to classify images for recognition

Learning and Teaching

Study time
Type	Hours
Revision	10
Supervised time in studio/workshop	24
Follow-up work	12
Completion of assessment task	18
Lecture	24
Wider reading or practice	50
Preparation for scheduled sessions	12
Total study time	150

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

R.C. Gonzalez, R.E. Woods (2008). Digital Image Processing. Pearson International Edition.

Nixon M S and Aguado A S (2012). Feature Extraction and Image Processing. Academic Press.

W.K. Pratt (1991). Digital Image Processing. John Wiley.

Assessment

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Final Assessment	70%
Continuous Assessment	30%

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Set Task	100%

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Set Task	100%

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External