Image analysis

elective courses

(in Polish) Wykorzystanie obrazu (fotografii) jako narzędzia intelektualnego w nauce i życiu codziennym. Ćwiczenie sprawności "patrzenia" w kategoriach intelektualnych i emocjonalnych.

Zapoznanie z najważniejszymi technikami obrazowania z uwzględnieniem szerokiego zakresu skali przestrzennej i spektrum elektromagnetycznego.

Blended learning
Classroom and field classes

Classes in image information involve the technology of taking photos in the individual ranges of electromagnetic radiation, on various scales (from molecular imaging to radio images of outer space) and in various environments (underwater, subterranean, aerial, outer space). A significant element of the classes is acquiring skills in the interpretation of images as well as reading and using the language of images both in the intellectual and emotional (aesthetic). One of the tasks the students have is the unassisted execution of a photographic work (meeting the norms of a publication) in the form of a reportage, exhibition, album or www. The classes are held in groups that are tailored to the knowledge of photography techniques, from the beginner's level to advanced. The level of knowledge of imaging techniques and equipment had is not significant - above all the skills of creative thought, perceptiveness and ability to express oneself will be developed. In the further part of the semes

Classes in image information involve several interrelated domains of knowledge: the functioning of the brain and thinking in image categories, the image recording techniques in the different radiation ranges (including classical photography techniques) that enhance it, as well as information technology systems.

It is likely that the development of our brain was shaped in the course of evolution to a considerable degree by signals transmitted by the organ of sight. Image information especially in Man, dominates with respect to signals perceived by the other senses and in consequence determines the capabilities of our thought. The development of computer technologies in the last two decades has resulted in the development of modern image processing and analysis techniques that have expanded the capacity of our brain. Image information, though being a tool, has at the same time become one of the fastest developing fields of research and technology. The amount of information accessed this way stimulates the development of consecutive leading domains connected with civilization, beginning with electron microscopy imaging to satellite studies of the Earth and Outer Space in broad ranges of electromagnetic radiation, from X-rays to radio waves.

In spite of the violent development of modern digital image analysis techniques our brain is still irreplaceable. Image information processing simultaneously takes place at different neural transformation levels - at the molecular, cellular and psychic levels, both in our subconsciousness as well as realized

The basic element of image analysis, which sometimes is a goal in itself, is perceiving an object, that is distinguishing it from a set of other objects. This achievement allows carrying out further operations involving the selected element: it allows determining the attributes that make it stand out (similarities and differences compared to other ones), adjust and analyze it in the context of other objects, study its relationships and connection to its environment, comparing it to standards acquired/learned in the course of life. Once the object is described and in consequence explicitly identified and interpreted we are able to give it a name and enter it into our memory archives.

One of the problems discussed during the classes will also be the building of two-dimensional representations of GIS concerning the environment, based on images (including orthophotomaps) and the building of multi-dimensional interdisciplinary image databases - qualitative and quantitative cartographic elaborations of varied natural, social, historical, economic, etc. phenomena.

Image information, together with concluding based on it (elements of the cognition theory), is one of the basic creative tools in the majority of scientific disciplines.

Ostrowski M., 1994, Informacja obrazowa, praca zbiorowa, WNT

Ostrowski M., 1996 Informacja obrazowa strategią ewolucji, SCI-ART

- Basic knowledge of classical photography

- Awareness of what the picture as an information carrier means

- Knowledge of the basic imaging techniques

- Recognition of the principles of the space perception at the level of subconscious and conscious

(rational) intelligence

- Using a picture as a research tool on one hand and as a form of expression on the other one.

Grade from exercises based on tasks done with imaging methods, ability to prepare longer writing forms (essay, reportage). Passing the lectures based on the written exam.