Engineering prof teaches image processing with BB photo

BoingBoing reader Richard Alan Peters is Assistant Director of the Center for Intelligent Systems at Vanderbilt University School of Engineering. He teaches two courses there about image processing. Not long ago, he asked us for permission to use a group photo of the BoingBoing crew shot by Bart Nagel in a lecture slide about the mathematics of image manipulation. Nagel kindly obliged, and professor Peters in turn said,

I've decided that I'd like to make the .ppt lectures for "EECE-253, Image Processing" and "EECE-254 Computer Vision" freely available with a Creative Commons license that requires only that I get cited for their use. Do you know where a good place would be to make them available?
Here is a link to the slides from the intro lecture from my course, EECE/CS Image Processing (Vanderbilt University, Fall 2006).
I'm happy to make all of them available, but they are pretty large (e.g., this one is 16MB). I might be able to get enough webspace at Vanderbilt to put them up for public access, but I don't have it right now. Right now the whole set totals out at 340MB.
I used Bart Nagel's photo on pages 32 and 33 of this lecture. They are also in the lecture on the Fourier Transform. The slides look best and display best if viewed in full-screen mode with Adobe Acrobat (hit control-l that's little ell).

Thanks, Dr. Peters! Alas, Mark didn't fit on the math donut. Slides, large size: one, two. In the photo, L-R: Mark, David, John, Cory, Xeni.

Discussion

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#1 posted by d012560c , December 5, 2007 11:50 AM

I've converted all of the 18 lecture notes into the DjVu format and uploaded them as a TAR to:
http://mihd.net/cey6u0
They are 96 Mb (compared to 236 Mb for original PDF's).

===================== DJVU INFO.=====================
DjVu plug-in (free)for Windows, Mac OS X, or UNIX: http://www.lizardtech.com/download/dl_options.php?page=doc

Open Source Reader for Windows or Mac OS X:
http://windjview.sourceforge.net/
====================================================

For those not familiar with the DjVu format (or prefer PDF's), I've uploaded optimized versions as a TAR to:
http://mihd.net/pejyis.
They are 148 Mb

Both uploads include a MPG version of the AVI animation found on: http://www.archive.org/details/Lectures_on_Image_Processing

For a screen-shot of what the files look (original PDF, optimized PDF, DjVu), here is a screen-shot:
http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/a2c67d6d4c.jpg

Cheers--