Module Descriptors
IMAGING AND SPECIAL EFFECTS
COSE50379
Key Facts
Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Sciences
Level 5
15 credits
Contact
Leader: Catherine French
Email: C.L.French@staffs.ac.uk
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: 36
Independent Study Hours: 114
Total Learning Hours: 150
Assessment
  • ASSIGNMENT weighted at 50%
  • EXAMINATION - UNSEEN IN EXAMINATION CONDITIONS weighted at 50%
Module Details
Module Additional Assessment Details
50% Assignment (learning outcomes 2 and 3)
50% Examination length 2 hours (learning outcomes 1 and 3)
Module Indicative Content
Image representations (binary, monochrome, colour, alpha channels), Grey-level transforms (thresholding, negation, quantisation), Contrast Enhancement (histogram equalisation, stretching), Filtering in the Spatial Domain (noise removal, edge detection, blurring, etc.), Morphing, Warping, simple colour image processing.
Module Learning Strategies
Two lectures per week.
One tutorial per week.
(1:n)2 (1:20)1
Module Special Admissions Requirements
CE00371-1 Introduction to Software and Development or equivalent
Module Resources
Labs with JAVA, Visual C and VCB.
Module Texts
A.A. Low, Introductory Computer Vision and Image Processing, (in-house publication)
R C Gonzalez, R E Woods, Digital Image Processing, Addison Wesley, 2002, ISBN: 0130946508