NSF LogoNSF Award Abstract - #9983806 AWSFL008-DS3

CAREER: Mixing and Separating Digital Images

NSF Org IIS
Latest Amendment Date May 16, 2003
Award Number 9983806
Award Instrument Continuing grant
Program Manager Junku Yuh
IIS DIV OF INFORMATION & INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS
CSE DIRECT FOR COMPUTER & INFO SCIE & ENGINR
Start Date June 1, 2000
Expires May 31, 2005 (Estimated)
Expected Total Amount $316232 (Estimated)
Investigator Hany Farid farid@cs.dartmouth.edu (Principal Investigator current)
Sponsor Dartmouth College
11 Rope Ferry Road #6210
Hanover, NH 037551404 603/646-3007
NSF Program 7339 COMPUTER VISION
Field Application 0104000 Information Systems
Program Reference Code 1045,1187,9216,HPCC,

Abstract

The objective of this award is to build an education and a research program in digital image processing. The development of digital technology is facilitating advances in virtually every area of science. Further advances will surely accrue as the technology improves.

The objective of this award is to build an education and a research program in digital image processing. The development of digital technology is facilitating advances in virtually every area of science. Further advances will surely accrue as the technology improves.

The rapid development of digital technology is due to work that spans several disciplines. As a result, students interested in this area must cobble together courses from a range of departments. Even if students are able to take all of the necessary courses, the material is certainly not presented to them within a cohesive framework. One objective of this award is the creation of a curriculum for the study of digital image processing. This curriculum will draw from topics in computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, optics, and psychology.

The second objective of this award is the creation of a research group dedicated to topics in digital image processing and computer vision. My group will undoubtedly be involved in a variety of research projects, but the emphasis will be on studying the mixing process that typifies the formation of digital images. This research will have a dual focus: (1) the first focus will be in separating the various components that contribute to the appearance of an image (e.g., lighting, reflectance, and shape); (2) the second focus will be in understanding how these image components are mixed to form natural images, and in characterizing the statistics of natural images.

The rapid development of digital technology is due to work that spans several disciplines. As a result, students interested in this area must cobble together courses from a range of departments. Even if students are able to take all of the necessary courses, the material is certainly not presented to them within a cohesive framework. One objective of this award is the creation of a curriculum for the study of digital image processing. This curriculum will draw from topics in computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, optics, and psychology.

The second objective of this award is the creation of a research group dedicated to topics in digital image processing and computer vision. My group will undoubtedly be involved in a variety of research projects, but the emphasis will be on studying the mixing process that typifies the formation of digital images. This research will have a dual focus: (1) the first focus will be in separating the various components that contribute to the appearance of an image (e.g., lighting, reflectance, and shape); (2) the second focus will be in understanding how these image components are mixed to form natural images, and in characterizing the statistics of natural images.


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