3 Credit hours (3 h lectures). This course provides a comprehensive introduction to digital image processing. It is therefore primarily concerned with the problem of formation and acquisition of digital images. The field draws heavily on many major subjects including image representation and transformation; image enhancement and restoration; image compression; morphological image processing; image segmentation, and object recognition. Students will learn and develop the intuitions of image processing methods in class as well as hands on experience to solve real-life digital problems.