ELEC 6430 Project Ideas

  1. Deblurring due to camera shake - Space-variant deblurring using one blurred and one underexposed image
  2. Automated red-eye reduction
  3. Sparse reconstruction of blurred and/or noisy images
  4. Creating image mosaic from video
  5. Median filter algorithms and extensions - Median Filtering in Constant Time, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TIP.2007.902329
  6. Nonlocal means denoising - Buades
  7. Novel trilateral deringing filter http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.2844731
  8. Predicting dc using ac coefficients for JPEG coding, http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.2844508
  9. Comparison of demosaicking methods
  10. Removal of halftone artifacts
  11. Grayscale or color image reconstruction from halftoned images
  12. Rendering of color image mosaics with a palette of LEGOs http://www.ericharshbarger.org/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?mona_lego_0.jpg+lego/images/mona_lego
  13. Recovery of high dynamic-range radiance maps from photos, http://www.debevec.org/Research/HDR/debevec-siggraph97.pdf
  14. Lossless compression with DCT plus entropy coding of residual
  15. APCM, DPCM, or ADPCM compression
  16. Predictive compression based on Peano-Hilbert scans
  17. Lossless predictive compression with Huffman coder
  18. Bilevel (white-black) image compression using a method such as runlength, contour tracing, or white block skipping
  19. Block truncation coding
  20. Blockiness reduction in transform coding
  21. Image deblurring using FIR approximation of Wiener filters
  22. Regularization parameter estimation in image restoration
  23. Adaptive contrast enhancement
  24. Image registration by control points and geometric transformation
  25. Image matching (determining shift and/or scale without control points)
  26. Texture segmentation
  27. Segmentation by region growing
  28. Segmentation by split-merge
  29. Region filling
  30. Moment-preserving thresholding
  31. Motion detection
  32. Neural networks for image interpolation
  33. Nonlinear image interpolation
  34. Nonlinear smoothing algorithms (removing outliers and noise with median and/or hybrid linear and rank-order filtering)
  35. Reconstruction from projections
  36. Circularly symmetric filter design
  37. Geometrical transformations with various interpolation options
  38. Experimental determination of optical transfer function (OTF) or point-spread function (PSF) of image acquisition camera and system
  39. Others...