Learning objectives:
Students acquire the skills to
- understand how graphics systems, image processing and image processing systems work internally and can work with them,
- master the basics of graphic programming in order to be able to model and animate 2D and 3D scenes themselves, e.g. for demonstration and simulation purposes,
- edit digital image data [e.g. with regard to analyzability], process it in a targeted manner [e.g. for computer vision applications] and save it appropriately for further use,
- know current image generation and image output techniques [e.g. also 3D output],
- know current rendering and visualization techniques and master the basic algorithms for these,
- understand the structure of digital images and color models and be able to assign them to the various application areas and issues,
- know the data formats of graphic data processing and understand the underlying compression methods,
- master the mathematical fundamentals of graphical data processing.
Course content:
- Introduction and overview of the entire subject area and related areas
- Special features of graphical data
- Digital images, object and image space
- Color models
- Elementary image editing and image processing
- Image compression and file formats
- Graphic objects and their creation, graphic programming
- Mathematical basics, geometric transformations
- Rendering techniques, visualization
- Acquisition and output of digital images, device technology
