Human vision; geometric camera models; image segmentation; object recognition; video signals and standards; video input and output circuits; computer vision and digital video applications.
Image perception; image digitization; image enhancement; image restoration; image segmentation; image compression; morphological image processing; image representation and description.
Analog and digital video; video sampling and rate conversion; video modeling; two-dimensional motion estimation; foundation of video coding: binary coding, quantization, transform coding; image and video compression standards; error control in video communications
Statistical independence and conditional probability; Hilbert space of 2nd–order random variables; conditional mean and covariance of multidimensional Gaussian distribution; Bayesian estimator; stationary discrete-time random signals; discrete-time linear systems with random signals input-output relation; rational spectral densities factorization; continuous-time stationary Gaussian processes and spectral factorization; ergodic processes; Hilbert space of square integrable functions on a time interval; karhunen-Loeve vs. Fourier series expansion of random signals; discrete-time Kalman áltering problem formulation; innovation sequence and update formula; propagate formula; Kalman álter equations.