i have been given a project where i will need to write code such that it parts of images. For example the project will require me to extract a river part from the scenery or so. I have no experience in this context. Please tell me where do i start studying form. Which are good books? Which technologies will i need to learn. What are the tools that are helpful?
openCV is probably the most complete free image processing library.
There is also a book which describes both the library and some image processing techniques.
This is a reasonably complex problem, not exactly graduate research but challenging!
See this question for a list of other books.
ImageJ is an easy to use, scriptable, modular, open source software, which may be quite useful in learning image processing. As for books, Digital Image Processing by Gonzalez et al. is de facto standard.
Unsure if this Q is closed but I recommend NetPBM and similar packages. This allows you to define images as text and perform operations but in a manner (albeit slow processing) that makes it very easy to understand.
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I am trying to Code a genetic algorithm in Matlab but really dont know how it works in images and how to proceed? Is there any basic tutorial that can help me understand how to apply GA on images (starting from 2d to multidimentional images ).
That will be a great help for me.
Thanking everyone in anticipations.
Kind Regards.
For GA you need two things: a fitness function that can evaluate any solution and tell how good it is, and a representation of your solution so that you can do crossover and mutation. Once you have these, you are good to go. I'm not an expert on image processing so I can't help you with that exactly.
Look at the book Essentials of metaheuristics which is a very good resource for start with evolutionary computation (and not only that) in general. It's free.
There is a paper on this subject which you can find at the IEEE library. I believe it solves the problem you vaguely describe.
I'd like to programatically do some signal processing on a live sound feed.
Specifically I'd like to be able to isolate certain bands of frequencies and play around with phase shifting.
I've not worked in this area before from a purely software perspective and a quick google search turned up very little useful information.
Does anyone know of any good information resources for this topic area?
Matlab is a good starting point. It has the necessary toolboxes and functions that will allow you to capture audio signals, run different kind of filters over them and write them to wav files. The UI is easy to navigate through and it's simple enough to generate plots and visualize results.
http://www.mathworks.com/products/signal/
If, however, you're looking to develop real-world applications, then Python can come in handy. They have toolkits like SciPy, Numpy, Audiolab that offer the same functions as Matlab does.
http://www.scipy.org
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http://scikits.appspot.com/audiolab
In a nutshell, Matlab is good for testing ideas and prototyping, Python is good for testing as well as real-world application development. And Python is free. Matlab might cost you if you're not a student anymore.
http://www.dspguide.com/
This is a super excellent reference on digital signal processing techniques in general. It's not a programming guide, per se, but covers the techniques and the theory clearly and simply, and provides pseudocode and examples so that you can implement in the language of your choice. You'll be hard up to find a more complete reference, and you can download it for free online!
I have decided to spend my personal time after office hours to learn the building blocks of how images jpeg type are parsed and represented in screen. My interest is on object recognition in an image.so I want to know where to start , I know there are math involved in this.so I needed step by step on what resources in Internet specifically to look at.
Need a lot more information on what you want, but take a look at OpenCV
http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary/
To see good examples.
I'd get Ritter's book (warning: costly!) and give it serious studying. If you just want to grab existing code and go play then perhaps you should look at libraries like OpenCV (see Lou's answer).
The ultimate goal of most image processing is to extract information about some high-level and application-dependent objects from an image available in low-level (pixel) form. The objects may be of every day interest like in robotics, cosmic ray showers or particle tracks like in physics, chromosomes like in biology, houses, roads, or differently used agricultural surfaces like in aerial photography or synthetic-aperture radar, etc.
This task of pattern recognition is usually preceded by multiple steps of image restoration and enhancement, image segmentation, or feature extraction, steps which can be described in general terms. The final description in problem-dependent terms, and even more so the eventual image reconstruction, escapes such generality, and the literature of application areas has to be consulted.
I'm looking for good research papers and tutorials for creation of image processing tool/application which are free. They may not have full-blown description. Papers and tutorials dedicated to a single feature are good enough. Thanks in advance.
There's not any papers for it, but if you take a look at the source code for AForge.NET you will be able to see how several image processing algorithms are implemented.
The project comprises of the core library and a GUI application that lets you try out the filters. So it will give you and idea of what is involved.
I'm new to image processing and I want to do a project in object detection. So help me by suggesting a step-by-step procedure to this project. Thanx.
Object detection is a very complex problem that includes some real hardcore math and long tuning of parameters to the computation methods involved. Your best bet is to use some freely available library for that - Google will help.
There are lot of algorithms about the theme and no one is the best of all. It's usually a mixture of them what makes the best solution to the solution.
For example, for object movement detection you could look at frame differencing and misture of gaussians.
Also, it's very dependent of your application, the environment (i.e. noise, signal quality), the processing capacity you may have available, the allowable error margin...
Besides, for it to work, most of time it's first necessary to do some kind of image processing to the input data like median filter, sobel filter, contrast enhancement and a large so on.
I think you should start reading all you can: books, google and, very important, a lot of papers about the subjects (there are many free in internet) you are interested in.
And first of all, i think it's fundamental (at least it has been for me) having a good library for testing. The one i have used/use is OpenCV. It's very complete, implement many of the actual more advanced algorithms, is very active, has a big community and it's free.
Open Computer Vision Library (OpenCV)
Have luck ;)
Take a look at AForge.NET. It's nowhere near Project Natal's levels of accuracy or usefulness, but it does give you the tools to learn the algorithms easily. It's an image processing and AI library and there are several tutorials on colored object tracking and motion detection.
Another one to look at is OpenCV from Intel. I believe it's a bit more advanced, but it's written in C.
Take a look at this. It might get you started in this complex field. The algorithm pages that it links to are interesting reading.
http://sun-valley.stanford.edu/projects/helicopters/final.html
This lecture by Jeff Hawkins, will give you an idea about the state of the art in this super-difficult field.
Seems that video disappeared... but this vid should cover similar ground.