(September 2008) Digital Video and Image Processing

YouTube and HDTV brought the digital video revolution into our computers and living rooms. The impact of DV reaches beyond the consumer application and well into the medical, industrial, security and scientific fields. Hardware and software engineers will likely encounter DV and image processing on their jobs sooner or later.

UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley continues its tradition of providing top-quality, professional training to engineers in technologies that matter most. We have a popular series of courses on Digital Signal Processing (DSP). Starting with the Fundamentals of DSP, followed by DSP Using MATLAB and Simulink, and DSP and Image Processing. On the algorithm and design front, we offer courses on Digital Video Compression (including H. 264) and Digital Video Codec Design. We will be adding a new course on practical camera design in the coming winter quarter: Embedded Camera Design: Image Sensors and Image Processing.

These courses are applicable toward our certificate in Embedded Systems, which include other good embedded hardware and software courses. Embedded Systems remains one of the dominant industries in Silicon Valley.