Topical outline for EECS 556 -- Background material 1. 2D continuous-space signals & systems (216 in 2D) 2. 2D Fourier transforms 3. Optical imaging basics (elementary Fourier optics and lenses) 4. 2D sampling 5. 2D discrete-space signals & systems (351 in 2D) 2D DSFT 6. Filter design 7. 2D DFT / 2D FFT / 2D DCT -- Non-statistical image processing 8. 2D interpolation applications: image resizing, rotation, image registration [Exam 1 about here] 9. Basic image analysis: edge detection / corner detection 10. Basic image enhancement: contrast enhancement / image sharpening / image denoising -- Statistical image processing 11. Random process image models WSS (wide-sense stationary): image denoising / Wiener filter MRF (Markov random fields): image segmentation [Exam 2 about here] 12. Image restoration (deblurring) 13. Sparsity models: image denoising, image deblurring, image compression 14. Image coding / quantization / compression