Today, almost all the images are in colour and a majority are only in a digital form. However, understanding their representation on the computer and processing them are almost completely neglected in our curricula. Image processing courses deal exclusively with grayscale images and students are often given the impression that colour image processing is only an extension of grayscale image processing.

The truth is that colour image processing is almost entirely different from grayscale image processing. From representation to enhancement, restoration to compression, primitive operations to feature extraction, colour image processing presents different challenges and poses questions that grayscale image processing cannot handle.

It is a fun course with emphasis on algorithms and small programming exercises. There is no available textbook, and the necessary material is collected from papers, reference books and the World-Wide-Web. Most of the material will be supplied before or by the first day of classes. However, material may be added as and when necessary, so please keep checking the above link for updates.