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Image and Video Processing: From Mars to Hollywood with a Stop at the Hospital

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Duke University

Image and Video Processing: From Mars to Hollywood with a Stop at the Hospital

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In this course, you will learn the science behind how digital images and video are made, altered, stored, and used. We will look at the vast world of digital imaging, from how computers and digital cameras form images to how digital special effects are used in Hollywood movies to how the Mars Rover was able to send photographs across millions of miles of space. The course starts by looking at how the human visual system works and then teaches you about the engineering, mathematics, and computer science that makes digital images work. You will learn the basic algorithms used for adjusting images, explore JPEG and MPEG standards for encoding and compressing video images, and go on to learn about image segmentation, noise removal and filtering. Finally, we will end with image processing techniques used in medicine. This course consists of 7 basic modules and 2 bonus (non-graded) modules. There are optional MATLAB exercises; learners will have access to MATLAB Online for the course duration. Each module is independent, so you can follow your interests.

À partir de la leçon

Geometric PDEs

This is all optional material. It will help the students that are more mathematically oriented and want to better understand the math behind next unit's lectures. But you will be able to handle without it.The quiz is therefore practice only.This is the first “advanced” unit and smoothly follows from the previous one. Students will learn very modern tools, widely used today, and will contrast with units 3,4 to illustrate how significantly more advanced mathematical tools are also very useful in image and video analysis. We will connect some of these advanced tools with classical ones, e.g., average with heat flow and median with anisotropic diffusion. This will help to provide unified views to the students.

1 - Introduction to PDEs in Image and Video Processing - Duration 10:2210:22

2 - Planar Differential Geometry - Duration 38:33 - Optional breaks at 12:46, 21:03, and 29:4138:32

3 - Surface Differential Geometry - Duration 11:4311:43

4 - Curve Evolution - Duration 31:10 - Optional breaks at 08:50, 19:25, and 24:2231:10

5 - Level Sets and Curve Evolution - Duration 25:34 - Optional break at 14:3025:34

6 - Calculus of Variations - Duration 14:03 - Optional break at 06:2314:03

7 - Anisotropic Diffusion - Duration 11:1711:17

8 - Active Contours - Duration 16:57 - Optional break at 06:2316:57

9 - Bonus: Cool Contrast Enhancement via PDEs - Duration 08:328:32

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Guillermo Sapiro
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Hello, and welcome back. We are going to now give an example of

Calculus of variations used in image processing, and these are the techniques

we just saw in the previous video. Let's apply them to image processing now.

And we're going to do that with one of the most famous equations in image

processing, in the area of partial differential equations in image

processing, and that's Anisotropic Diffusion.

What is that? If you remember, when we discussed the

Gaussian filtering and averaging images, we talked that those are, were like

diffusion of the pixel values all across the image.

What was happening is that we obtained blurring.

Because if there were edges basically, we were averaging across edges.

We were letting the pixels' values across edges to be basically mixed up and that's

when we obtained blurry. And that was Isotropic Smoothing.

It was just going all around. It didn't matter if it had boundaries or

not boundaries. What Anisotropic Smoothing or Anisotropic

Diffusion is trying to do is going to try to average pixels value, pixel values,

only on the right side of the object, on the right side of the edge, on the

correct object. So, pixel values here are going to be

averaged among themselves, to basically denoise or enhance the image.

Pixel values here are going to be basically mixed among themselves.

How do we do that? We do that with equations,

partial differential equations as we see here. Before we look at the equations,

let us look at the images, this is an original image.

And if we do basically, Gaussian Smoothing or Averaging, we know that we

are going to blur. We blur across the boundaries because

it's just mixing pixels from different objects and that's what we see here.

On the other hand, if we try not to blur, try not to mix, we only mix pixels on the

same side of the boundary without going in this direction, then we get the much

sharper. We still see that we have removed noise

inside the object, inside the grey matter of these MRI picture of the brain, we see

that this is much smoother, that we are still preserving the boundaries very,

very, nicely. The difference between these two is here,

we have what we have marked here with red background, is isotropic diffusion, heat

equation. We actually already talked about it that

we're going to to derive it in the next slide using Calculus of variations.

Here, we have added isotropic before we take the second derivative which is a

divergence. I have to basically remind you that the

Laplacian of the image is the divergence of the gradient.

And we are ready to define gradient and the divergence in the previous slides.

So, before we take it as here, we introduce a function in between here.

This is a very similar function as the one that we used for active counters.

It's, for example, one over the gradient, we are going to see that in the next

slide. So, a function is going to say,

wait a second. Don't diffuse if there is a strong

gradient. Stop the diffusion.

And that's why there is diffusion in certain directions when there is not a

strong gradient. And there is no diffusion or reduced

diffusion where there is a strong gradient, meaning across edges.

And that's where we get very sharp boundaries.

We preserve them while at the same time, regularizing inside the objects.

And that's what we want. These equations are the results of

Calculus of variations. So, if we basically define any function

of the gradient, so here,

this is what we saw the last time that we were basically taking functions of u or

derivatives of u. And basically, the gradient is the

derivative of the image and rho here takes the role of f.

So, we take any function of the magnitude of the gradient.

If we compute the Euler-Lagrange, this is what we get.

That's the Euler-Lagrange of that equation if we follow exactly the formula

that we show in the previous video. And remember, the partial differential

equation is obtained by deforming the image equal to the Euler-Lagrange.

And then, when this doesn't change anymore, we have

solved the Euler-Lagrange and we have obtained may be only local, but at least

we obtained that minimizer of this functional.

So, once again, this is just by doing the Euler-Lagrange that we learned in the

previous video. We just pick a couple of examples of this

raw function to show how nice this is. For example, let us consider rho of a to

be a squared. So here, I am trying to minimize the

magnitude of the gradient squared. And then, the Euler-Lagrange,

so ir rho of a is a squared, then rho prime is 2a,

okay? So, instead of rho prime, I have to put

two times whatever is inside rho, which is the gradient,

okay? So basically, have here, and then the

Euler-Lagrange that I get is, the Euler-Lagrange equation is pie t,

this is this, equal to divergence of rho prime, basically 2a.

Let me ignore the two, it's just scale. So, a time, we mean, replace the

gradient, okay?

a is taking basically the position of the gradient, the absolute magnitude of the

gradient, sorry. And this is this part.

So, this part stays and this part is rho prime.

Now, these two cancel and I go divergence of basically the gradient and this is the

Laplacian. For this function, the Euler-Lagrange is

basically the heat flow and that's isotropic.

That's basically smoothing it in an isotropic fashion,

okay? So, that's the Euler-Lagrange of the

square of the absolute value of the magnitude, we get the regular heat flow,

the Isotropic Diffusion, diffusion all around.

Let's just pick another example that is really, really, really interesting.

Let's just pick, for example, a function that basically, rho of a = a, okay?

Just itself, we could take the absolute value of a but let's just leave that

technicality aside for a second. Then, rho prime is one,

okay? So, I'm basically going to try to

minimize the absolute value of the gradient,

not the gradient square, the absolute value of the gradient

without putting it to the square. And then, what do I get as the

Euler-Lagrange equation of that? So, rho prime is now a constant.

So, I go, divergence of gradient normalized by the gradient.

So, I didn't get anymore the heat flow. I got this normalization factor that is

saying, wait a second, if the grand is very high, you are one over the gradient

so slow down and try to preserve those edges.

So, this is one example of an Isotropic Diffusion.

It's actually called the total variation. Total [SOUND] variation, that's basically

the name of this equation. And now, I want you to think for a

second, what is this? We learned it a couple of videos ago.

This is curvature of the level lines of the image I.

We actually use it as a genetic function. We use it phi, in that case, or, or phi,

we use this in that case. Now, this is the curvature of every level

line of the image. So, we are basically considering the

image as a surface and we are deforming the image, we are doing an Isotropic

Diffusion of the image in such a way that basically it's moving according to the

curvature of the level lines and that's getting us an Isotropic Diffusion.

This is an extremely interesting connection.

We talked about curve evolution, we talked about curvature type of motions.

This is a curvature type of motion. That basically the image is moving based

on curvature of the level lines and that's, we don't really care about the

level lines or we didn't derive this equation from the level lines, we derived

it from the Euler-Lagrange of the total variation.

But we connected between the both, between both of them moving according to

curvature type of equations and moving curvature of the level lines and moving

according to the Euler-Lagrange. The curvature of what?

The curvature of the level lines of the image.

A very interesting connection between curve evolution, level set, and Calculus

of variation, and that gives us a very, very nice equation for Anisotropic

Diffusion. And this basically is one of the most

famous examples of the use of Calculus of variations in image processing.

What's left in this week is to conclude the week in the next video with a bit

more of active contours, one of the main clients of curve

evolution and Calculus of variations as we have discussed in the past and that's

we're going to see in the next video. Thank you very much.

I'm looking forward to that. Thank you.

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