Plenary Lecture

Content Aware Image Processing

Associate Professor Raimondo Schettini

DISCo (Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Comunicazione)
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca,
Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi 8, 20126 Milano,
ITALY
Email: schettini@disco.unimib.it

Abstract: The great diffusion of digital cameras and the widespread use of the internet have produced a mass of digital images depicting a huge variety of subjects, generally acquired by non-professional photographers using unknown imaging systems under unknown lighting conditions. The quality of these real-world photos can be considerably improved by digital image processing .In this lecture we describe our approach for content-aware image processing and enhancement. According to our approach, the overall quality of a digital photo is improved by modular, fully automatic, image enhancement procedures driven by the image class and content. Single processing modules can be considered as autonomous elements that are suitably combined to improve the overall quality according to image and defect categories.

Brief Biography of the Speaker:
Raimondo Schettini is an Associate Professor at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. He is Vice–Director of the Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication, and head of Imaging and Vision Lab. He has lead several research projects and published more than 200 papers on image processing, analysis and reproduction, and on image content-based indexing and retrieval. Associated Editor of the Pattern Recognition Journal, he was Chairman of several International Conferences related to color imaging.