The focus of this short course is to introduce the audience to the basics of digital image and video compression, and enable them to apply these techniques to their projects. The attendees will learn how lossless and lossy compression schemes work on still images and video. The audience will become familiar with Differential Pulse Code Modulation (DPCM), Discrete Fourier Transform (DCT) and Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) in the context of image and video compression. Attendees will also learn some of the popular compression standards in use for TV and wireless communications such as MPEG and H.264. Due to the limited duration of this short course, the contents are dealt with less mathematical rigor.

This course deals with the theory of digital image processing. The focus of this short course is to introduce the audience to basics of digital image processing and to motivate them to learn the subject in depth and apply the concepts in their projects. The attendees learn basic techniques involved in improving a picture quality as in image sharpening or contrast enhancement. Image transforms deal with the representation of an image in orthogonal basis images. They are useful in image compression, classification and understanding. This course has been taught several times at senior undergraduate level by the author at San Diego State University and other institutions. However, due to the limited duration of this short course, the contents are dealt with less mathematical rigor.