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                              Competences  | 
                             
                            
                              | Students are able to understand, apply, analyze, and assess conventional and AI methods that are needed to enhance images, automatically analyze image, compress images, and protect copyrights on digital images.
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                              Skills  | 
                              Knowledge  | 
                             
                            
                              Students are able to (all skills on K2 to K5):
- Improve image quality problems that are related to adverse image capture conditions 
 - Improve image quality using contrast enhancement, smoothing, and sharpening
 - Extract relevant entities (edges, corners, regions) from images
 - Represent regions using expressive features 
 - Classify regions in images
 - Use suitable neural networks to master the tasks of image recognition, object detection, instance segmentation, and semantic segmentation 
 - Compress images using suitable JPEG standards
 - Protect copyrights on images using digital watermarks 
 
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                              - Image restoration in image and frequency domain
 - Image enhancement (contrast enhancement, image smoothing, image sharpening) 
 - Edge and corner detection  
 - Segmentation of images into regions
 - Feature extraction for object representation
 - Object classification
 - Image recognition using CNNs (Convolutional Neural Networks)
 - Object detection and segmentation using R-CNNs (Regions with CNN features) 
 - Semantic segmentation using FCNs (Fully Convolutional Networks) 
 - Image compression using JPEG standards
 - Copyright protection for images with digital watermarks
 
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