Processing and Computer Vision: A New Dimension for Under- graduate Electrical and Computer Engineering Programs

该项目涉及一个新的计算机视觉和图像处理实验室，以支持电气和计算机工程的三个高级课程。传统上，此类课程只向主要大学的研究生开放，在这些大学，复杂的工作站和辅助设备的费用可由外部资助的研究项目承担。新实验室将占用最近翻修的莫奇大厅的专用空间，该大厅将被称为图像处理和计算机视觉实验室。已经开设了一门名为《图像处理原理》的入门课程，但如果没有实验课的帮助，学生将被剥夺基本的实践经验。该设备将允许学生捕获真实图像，并学习与图像处理相关的一些操作(图像捕获、采样和量化、基于梯度的边缘检测、图像平均和统计图像分析)。他们还将能够认识到计算机视觉系统在目前的发展状态下的一些困难和局限性。为建立这个先进的实验室而提供的资金将为罗斯-胡尔曼理工学院的电气和计算机工程计划增加一个新的层面。该机构捐赠的金额与该奖项相同。*/

This project concerns a new Computer Vision and Image Processing Laboratory, to support three senior-level courses in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Traditionally such courses have been available only to graduate students at major universities where the expense of sophisticated workstations and support equipment can be borne by externally-funded research projects. The new laboratory will occupy dedicated space in the recently renovated Moench Hall that will be known as the Image Processing and Computer Vision Laboratory. An introductory course entitled "Principles of Image Processing" is already offereed, but without the benefit of a laboratory class students are deprived of essential hands-on experience. The equipment will allow students to capture real images and to learn some of the operations associated with image processing (image capture, sampling and quantization, gradient- based edge detection, image averaging, and statistical image analysis). They will also be able to appreciate some of the difficulties and limitations of computer vision systems at the present state of development. The provision of funds to put this advanced laboratory in place will add a new dimension to the Electrical and Computer Engineering program at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. The institution is contributing an amount equal to the award.***//