Winter 2004 Homework  

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See the IOngineering Class Syllabus for the general requirements of all homework assignments.
Quizzes and other such announcements are generally not listed below, only the HW TO BE HANDED IN.
See past Calendars for the complete listing of all previous assignments, quizzes, and tests for the class.
All lab report requirements and deadlines are stated in the VAB Lab Requirements for each
Chapter and are not usually listed here. R = Grades normally worth 10 points.
 
Due Date
Assignment
Assignment Details    Assignment Links:
11/18/2003 Read Ch. 3.1.    
12/1/2003 Read Ch. 3 through p. 173. Possible quiz on 12-2.    
12/4/2003 Take Kodak imaging tutorial for 30 minutes.
There is a self-test at the end of  each module. This tutorial leans more to the hardware side of the equation.

We'll have you finish the tutorial on Thursday night.
Kodak Imaging Tutorial
12/12/2003 Be prepared for a quiz over the Kodak Imaging Tutorials.    
12/16/2003 Finish Kodak imaging tutorial Chapters 2 & 3. Please do these Lesson modules and self-tests by Tuesday, 12-15-03. Note that the side navbar has the Chapter links in it.

Chapter 1: Lessons 1,2,3,5

Chapter 2: Lessons 1-3

Chapter 3: Lesson 1,4

 Kodak Imaging Tutorial
1/6/2004 Read part of Section 4.1 (p.181-189) in the book.    
1/7/2004 Finish reading through p. 194 of the book and answer Exercises 4.1 #1-9 on p. 195.    
1/8/2004 Read section 4.2 from p. 196-204. Do Exercise 4.2 #1-3 on p. 212    
1/9/2004 Work on Coin Counter VAB in class Progress from creating a VAB that will:

A) read a static bitmap image and total the value of all of the coins in the image TO

B) read coins off a CCD in a controlled light environment in order to do the same thing.
 

  
1/9/2004 Read p.205-211; do Ex. #4-7 on p.212    
1/12/2004 Read p. 211- 217; see the rest here.
Please watch the refresher on matrix multiplication below.

We'll finish the CCD coin counter on Monday afternoon.

All late work must be in by next Thursday, 11-15 before the midmark grading period ends.
 
Matrix Multiplication Demonstration
1/13/2004 Do Exercises 4.2 #8-16 on p. 212, 213
Email or have hard copy for Mr. R.

CCD camera coin counter should be @ 85 % accuracy by the end of class today. Email your VAB at the end of the period to Mr. R. 
 
Use email lab heading format found here
1/15/2004 Read p. 213-222. See more here. Do Exercise 4.3 #1-3 on p. 223.  
1/21/2004 Create a written/typed outline for the major image processing concepts in Ch. 4.1-4.3 Spend 35 minutes on this outline tonight. Attempt to illustrate each operation using simple examples. Email or bring the outline to class.  
1/22/2004 Spend 40 minutes on Ch. 4 outline. Add details under the major chapter headings.
The goal is to get the VAB "toolbox" for Ch. 4 characterized and understood.

The matrix math in 4.2 is much easier to understand in context with VAB examples used to illustrate the matrix manipulations.
 
1/23/2004 Continue to add VAB examples to each of the Ch. 4 major topics We'll try and analyze edge detector differences and blue screen technology today.

Spend 35 min on the additional outline details tonight.

  
1/26/2004 Finish adding specifics to your CH. 4 outline
We'll finish the Blue-screen VAB on Monday and add a few new image blocks to our toolbox.

Please email me your fleshed-out Word outline of Ch. 4 by 2:15  pm on Monday.
 
 
2/3/2004 Optical Flow Navigation Web site
This site shows how to use the changes in edges from frame to frame in a video game to generate an "optical flow". These vectors show the direction that the robot (or game character) must be moving and how far they are from other objects. The goal is obstacle detection- like having your sniper run through a building instead of bounce off of it in half-life.
 
Please read the entire web page and be ready to discuss the major ideas of optical flow navigation in class. 
 
Optical Flow Navigation
2/4/2004 Basic Concepts in Digital Image Processing Web Site
Please read the page below on how to apply the techniques from Ch. 4 to observing living or preserved tissue- and finding out what is going on in the cells!

Try and find Ch. 4 concepts as used by cell biologists using color CCD cameras on microscopes.
Image Processing in Cell Biology
2/6/2004 Ch. 4 Concepts to know. Open note/book quiz on Friday. Please know how to explain and give examples of these terms or processes in image processing

1) neighborhood operation
2) convolve kernel (see the microscope web site from 2-4)
3) math needed to change:
     a) brightness
     b) contrast
4) lookup tables and color curves
5) thresh holding
6) edge detectors
7) optical flow navigation (See 2-3 website)
8) creating an image mask and "blue screening"

  
2/10/2004 Read Ch. 5 through p. 263    
2/11/2004 Read p. 268-273; 276-277 We'll practice the binary conversions and do the basic s(t) math operations in class; bring your calculator!  
2/12/2004 Do Exercises 5.2 on p. 266; #8-14, 17-20. Use graph paper or Excel.    
2/17/2004 Do Exercises 5.2 on p. 266, #21-32. Read through 295. Do by hand or in Excel. Bring printout to class.  
2/18/2004 Do Selected Exercises 5.3 on p. 278-79 Please do these and bring in a hard copy to class:

Exercises 5.3 #3-6, 8,11,15,16,20,&25

  
2/19/2004 Do selected 5.4 Exercises on p. 290, 291 Do Exercises 5.4 #1-7, 11-14.  
2/20/2004 Virtual Data Drive design tour Please take the web tours for hard drives below.

First, take a look at "How Hard Drives work" at

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/hard-disk.htm

Secondly, you can go to the Berkeley virtual Design Lab where you to choose what components you might want in a hard drive. This is much more technical, but it does give you an idea about some of the engineering trade-offs that come with digital storage.

Spend about 40 minutes tonight total on this.

Magnetic media reads the magnetic field associated with the electron spin orientation of iron filings pointing North ("on") or South ("off") in order to encode bits of information.
 

 UC Berkeley interactive site

Hard Drive Components-jpg

2/23/2004 Take the web tour of optical storage. Please visit the Digital Storage page and look at how optical storage (CD, DVD) systems work.

http://www.smtexas.net/faculty/rummel/io/weblinks2.htm#Digital_Storage

CD players can also be found at:

http://www.music-cd-player.com/how_they_work.htm
 

  
2/24/2004 Take the semiconductor memory tutorial Take the web tutorial here:
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/computer-memory2.htm for the basics.

Please track down the areal densities for these media in bits/ in^2 or bits/ cm^2:

  • SD card

  • CF card

  • DVD

  • CD-ROM

  • Hard Drive

  • Memory Stick

  
2/26/2004 Prepare for a quiz on Digital Storage
  • The quiz will be on Thursday and will cover:

  • Nyquist Theorem

  • Analog to Digital conversion

  • Basic Binary

  • Hard Drives

  • Optical Storage

  • Semiconductor memory

From the Rewriteable Optical packet, be able to identify these components and their function:

  • Atip
  • Organic Dye layer
  • Polycarbonate layer
  • red vs. blue laser
  • Stripes
  • Read Head
  • CR-R vs CD-ROM: how are the physical creations of bits the same and different?
  • DVD-RW crystalline vs. amorphous phase
  
2/27/2004 Finish and email me the rest of your quiz responses before class.    
3/2/2004 Read Ch. 6.1. Pages 297-305. Do Exercises 6.1 #1-4.    

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