ECE 418 Introduction to Image & Video Processing (SP2026)

Instructor:

Prof. Pierre Moulin
Office: 310 Coordinated Science Lab
Office hour: Wednesday 10:00 - 11:30  
Email: pmoulin@illinois.edu

Lecture:

Tuesday and Thursday 14:00 - 15:20 
Location: 2015 ECEB

TA:

Pei You
Office hour: Tuesday 10:00 - 12:00, ONLINE
Lab section: Friday 13:00 - 17:00, ONLINE
Email: peiyou2@illinois.edu

Both OHs and Labs will be on Zoom. Links

Lab session recording (valid for 20 days): Links.

Gradescope:

List of topics

• Due on May

Exams: 

Textbooks:

(The following books are on reserve in the Grainger Library)

      [1] YaoWang, Jorn Osterman, Ya-Qin Zhang, Video Processing and Communications, Prentice-Hall, 2002.
      [2] R. Gonzalez and R. Woods, Digital Image Processing, 2nd Ed., Prentice-Hall 2002.
      [3] A. K. Jain, Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing, Prentice-Hall, 1989.
      [4] W. K. Pratt, Digital Image Processing, Wiley, 1991.
      [5] A. M. Tekalp, Digital Video Processing, Prentice-Hall, 1995.
      [6] M. Ghanbari, Video Coding - an introduction to standard codecs, IEE Telecommunications Series, 1999.
      [7] YaoWang, Jorn Osterman, Ya-Qin Zhang, Video Processing and Communications, Prentice-Hall, 2002.

Homeworks: 

• Due date: HW is usually assigned bi-weekly on Thursday and due by the end of the following Thursday
• Submission: Homework should be uploaded as a PDF file (either handwritten or typed) to Gradescope. Please use the access code: 3DZDVJ
• Regrade requests must be submitted on Gradescope within one week of grades being posted. All regrade requests must have a brief justification
• Late submissions will not be accepted

Lab sections: 

• A lab section is held weekly to let you obtain hands-on experience with materials covered in this course
• Attendance is encouraged but not required
• Due date: same as the HWs
• Submission: A lab report as a PDF file (either handwritten or typed), the source code, and other required files should be combined and uploaded as a .zip file, to Gradescope, using the same access code as the HWs
• Regarde requests policy: same as the HWs
• Late submissions will not be accepted

Grading:

• Lab (except Lab 1)      25%
• Homeworks (biweekly)        10%
• Midterm1        15%
• Midterm2        15%
• Final                 35% or 20%
• Optional Project                 0% or 15%