The educational scenario of the nation has been subjected to swift changes. It may not be an exaggeration to state that every passing day heralds a development, if not an upheaval. In every society, there have been attempts to organize the body of existing knowledge, to perceive the natural and also scientific phenomena not merely with awe and reverence but with inductive and deductive logic, reasoning and experimentation so as to understand various occurrences in an enlightened manner. It is to be noted that technological advancement has always been innovative and explorative. Image Processing is considered to be one of the most rapidly evolving areas of information technology today, with growing applications in all areas of business.

 

It forms the core area of research within the engineering disciplines at most of the top universities and institutes. Machine vision refers the industrial application of vision technology. It describes the understanding and interpretation of technically obtained images for controlling production processes. Cameras and computers give machines or devices the ability to actually "see", to recognize objects or situations and to make the right decisions accordingly. It has evolved into one of the key technologies in industrial automation, which is used in virtually all manufacturing industries. One of the main barriers to full industrial automation is in the practical realization of pattern-recognition and image-processing systems, for image inspection, robot vision, texture analysis, attitude estimation, etc.

 

The Proposed Centre of Excellence is functioning under the Technical Supervision of Prof. (Dr.) K. K. Biswas IIT Delhi

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Objectives

 

Image Processing and computer vision forms a core area of research within the computer science and engineering discipline.

 

1. The purpose of image processing centre is to make Image Systems Engineering emerge as a significant Customized Image Processing Hardware Centre for young students and researchers to move into the field of Real-Time Image Processing.  

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2. The aim of this centre set-up is to generate interest among the students towards the field of image processing & Computer Vision and also familiarize the students with the practical aspects of this field and gradually teach them the Industrial usage of Image Processing for Control applications, Quality inspections and Robotic Control systems.

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3. The establishment of digital image processing and machine vision centre can assist faculty members to explore research opportunities and carry out studious searches for new discoveries or innovative interpretations.

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4.  It would also prove to be an encouragement to students to take up related projects within the academic environment.

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5. One of the purposes the Center is to draw together the existing faculty with strong common interest in this area of research.

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6. The broader knowledge and expertise of several members of the Center will strengthen funding prospects.

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Proposed Projects

• Human tracking robot using Microsoft Kinect Camera

• Human action recognition with Microsoft kinect Camera

• Image and video enhancement; high-dynamic-range images and video

• Image and video processing for forensic applications;

• Restoration of antique movies and photographs;

• Finding irregularities on flat glass.

• Reading license plates of cars.

• Recognizing and identifying person.

• Guiding robots so that they can adapt to changes in their environment.

• Edge detection in noisy images;

• Document image processing;

• Texture discrimination and classification;

• Hardware realization of signal and image processing operators;

• Nonlinear interpolation of images and image sequences;

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Functional Areas

• Few certification programs on Image Processing & Computer Vision will be devised and inducted in the regular course of study. These programs will be conducted by internal faculty members & subject experts from other reputed organizations through invitation.

• Short-term Faculty Development Programs can be organized in collaboration with experts.

• Student’s workshops or training sessions can be conducted on regular basis.

• Technical consultancy can be provided to industry & other institute in the field of automation.

• Incoming engineers can work as interns, working on good projects.

• Submission of few projects for research grants

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Team

1. Prof. Vijai Singh, Assistant Professor, CSE Dept (Pursuing Ph.D. in the area of Image Processing, Teaching & research Experience of more than 10 years)

2.  Ms. Vinita, Assistant Professor, CSE Dept, M.Tech, She has been working on Image Processing since last three years.

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