Project 1 - Image Processing of Fine Art (100/100) (Due 09/02)

In order to finish this project, you need to understand the following:

• Image format (e.g. PGM/PPM)
• Color image format
• The Image library
• Image read/write
• How to view an image
• How to get around a gray-scale image using a double "for" loop
• How to get around a color image using a triple "for" loop

Tasks

• Implement two special effects listed in the Appendix that you like the most from this website.
• Use different tests images from the website. You can choose any images provided from the "testimage" link.
• Choose at least one black/white image and one color image for special effect

Sample Codes

• How to read/write a color or a gray-scale image (readwrite.cpp, readwrite_color.cpp, testImage.cpp, testmatrixProcessing.cpp)
• How to organize your code. This tar file shows you how to use the Image library given to code a simple image processing algorithm, i.e., to change the contrast of the image (for each pixel, change its intensity to m*r+b where r is the original intensity).

Image Viewers

I'd suggest "gimp". Do a search on the Internet. It has free installations for both Windows and Linux.

What to turn in

• a tar file or a zip file with all the necessary SOURCE code (do NOT zip executables or object files, i.e., *.exe, *.o, etc.), including a README file on how to compile, how to run and test the code.
• a written report (in pdf format) including the following contents
  • cover page with your name, class title, class number, date, etc.
  • an "Abstract" (no more than 300 words) summarizing what this project is about (objective), what you did, and what you find out.
  • a "Result" section (one page) that lists both the original image and the output image of the special effect. Make sure that there's caption to the figure and that parameters used that generate the result are elaborated in the caption.
  • a "Discussion" section summarizing lessons learned, your experience working on the project, potential future work if given time, etc. Note that this should be a short paragraph, between 50 to 400 words.
  • source code printout (you don't need to print out Image.h or Image.cpp. just print out the ones that you wrote yourself, including any header files that you wrote). PLEASE use formatted printout. Following is a command you can use on Linux:

    enscript -Ecpp -G2r ???.cpp -o out.ps