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You work as an image processing specialist at the Malayan National Hospital. You are given an ultrasound of a baby scan shown in Figure 1 (ultrasound.jpg). Your task is to enhance this image by sharpening it to bring out more of the baby body’s detail. The narrow dynamic range of the intensity levels and high noise content make this image difficult to enhance. Try to come out with a strategy to increase the dynamic range of the intensity levels. You can combine various types of image processing techniques like sharpening/smoothing filter, contrast stretching, and noise removal to achieve your objective. A sample output image is shown in Figure 2.
You are an expert in the computer vision field. Recently, you are consulted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to assist in the investigation of a famous painting from the Tang Dynasty. The people believe that some secret messages have been hidden in the painting that will lead to an important discovery of ancient Chinese civilization. Try to make use of the template (template.jpg) and reference images (reference.jpg) provided to find the secret messages. Report the secret messages that you discover in the picture.
Answer: AWESOME
This time, you are asked to work on a plantation project. In this project, you need to develop a program to automatically count the number of trees in a photo (Figure 3) taken by a remote sensing aircraft. Your program needs to automatically highlight and count the number of trees contain in the picture (Figure 4). Use the image called plantation.jpg in this task.
