Regular courses
The group is regularly solicited to take part in lectures and short courses in various areas of multimedia signal processing. This includes regular courses given at EPFL and other Swiss and European Universities, as well as short courses in International Conferences, varying from one day to one week in duration.
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Advanced image processing and analysis
by Prof. Touradj Ebrahimi (with Michael Unser, Pierre Vandergheynst, Jean-Philippe Thiran and Pascal Frossard)
Period: Summer semester
[Description]
The goal of this doctoral level course is to introduce Ph.D. degree candidates to advanced methods and mathematical tools for the processing and analysis of images. Prerequisites are a basic knowledge of signal processing (equivalent of a 2 semester bachelor course) and image processing (equivalent of a 2 semester master course).
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Bio-inspired processing of cognitive signals
by Prof. Touradj Ebrahimi (with Sabine Süsstrunk and Hynek Hermansky)
Period: Summer semester
[Description]
This course is intended to Doctoral degree students of Communication Systems, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Sections at EPFL. The goal of the course is to introduce engineering students to basic concepts of human processing of biological communication signals and to demonstrate advantages of emulation of the human-like signal processing by machine.
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Image and Video Processing
by Prof. Touradj Ebrahimi
Period: Summer semester
[Description]
This course which is intended to M.Sc. degree students of Communication Systems, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Sections at EPFL, aims at familiarizing them to fundamental aspects of image and video processing. After a short introduction to extend the fundamentals of sampling and quantization theory to that of image and video signals, it discusses basis of image acquisition (still and video camera, scanners) and rendition (printers, display). It then concentrates on basic tools of image and video processing, namely, multi-dimensional digital filtering, multi-dimensional transforms, linear and non linear operators (edge detection, color transforms, motion estimation). It also emphasizes the fundamentals of the human visual system, and its use in various imaging algorithms. Finally, complete systems such as still and moving images compression algorithms are analysed in details. This course takes place in the winter semester, in slots of six hours per week. One third of the course is devoted to laboratory sessions, whereas two third is an ex-cathedra lecture. It also includes optional mini-projects on various imaging issues (image watermarking, image and video compression standards).
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Media Security
by Prof. Touradj Ebrahimi
Period: Summer semester
[Description]
This course is intended to M.Sc. degree students of Communication Systems, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Sections at EPFL. Media security, while being a subset of data security, is of special interest for two main reasons. First, security applications involving media content are particularly rich in their technical challenges and business opportunities. Second, media content, as opposed to generic data, is intended for human consumption and therefore bears a perceptual dimension. Specifically, it is mostly the content, and not the data, that needs to be authenticated and/or protected. This brings additional degrees of freedom, as well as constraints on how such type of data can be secured. This course is composed of theoretical lectures covering essential elements of media security, as well as hands-on practical sessions in form of laboratories. Each student also explores in further details, specific elements of a given media security problem through a mandatory mini-project.
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Information Processing for Video Surveillance
by Prof. Touradj Ebrahimi and Dr. Frederic Dufaux
Location: SPIE/IS&T Electronic Imaging, San Jose, California and SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, Orlando, Florida.
Period: Winter and Spring
[Description]
The purpose of this short course is to give a broad view of the many aspects of video surveillance. In particular, we will review the state-of-the-art in video surveillance as well as discuss the latest developments and future trends. From a technical point of view, the short course will address several important areas which are relevant in a video surveillance system, including video analysis, video coding, security, transmission and video database management. Besides the technical aspects, the short course will also address societal issues and legal aspects.
