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Instructional Grants Program in Digital Image Systems Engineering
University of Pavia
Department of Computer and Systems Engineering
Participants: Virginio Cantoni, Massimo Savini, Massimiliano Pini
Management Summary:
With the academic year 1995/96 a new course (50 hours long) will be
activated, extending the previous two courses (50+25 hours long). This
allows to cover not only the traditional topics (the low and intermediate
levels of the image processing and pattern recognition courses, and the
high level of arficial vision ones) but for the first time the hardware and
software engineering aspects are introduced in detail. This request is made
to complete the classroom equipment in order to augment the student
practical esperimantation.
Current Image Systems Engineering Curriculum Status and Future Growth.
In the 1994/95 academic year, two specialized courses were given: fifty
hours covering segmentation, texture analisys, shapes from shading, motion,
stereo imaging , object recognition; 25 hours covering artificial vision
including knowledge representation, semantic nets, planning, etc..
Starting with the next year, a new 50 hours course will be introduced
covering: ASIC and arificial retinae, parallel and hierarchical
architectures for image processing and computer vision, languages and
programming environments for image processing, visual proramming and man
machine interfaces for hetherogeneous data-processing.
In particular we will start since this year the coordinating activity of
the courses in the fields in the Italian universities. In this first year,
we will involve a number of different sites, each one with a precise
training goal: tutorial packages in defined subtopics (mathematical
morphology, filtering, digital transforms, etc), comparison from the
educational view-point of existing IP packages, constitution of image
data-bases for training and comparison purposes; exploitation of network
facilities for IP courses. We will consider the opportunity of developing a
distributed set of facilities to be jointly exploitable by the Italian
education community.
Educational Facilities for IP at the Engineering School of the University of Pavia
Presently a classroom containing 32 HP 9000/705 workstations connected in
four clusters are used for all the IP courses. The requested HP equipment
is to complete this classroom with an adeguated plotter, and some software
packages to develop the training tools of the classroom.rained Vision Machine, Machine Vision