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Scheduled Public Events:
Monday, May 23 - Thursday, May 26, 2011 - A four-day hands-on workshop on Forensic Image Processing will be presented at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. This is the second year for this workshop, which provides attendees with a thorough grounding in Photoshop, image processing and measurement, courtroom presentation, and an opportunity to work on their own images. Information on the course, contents, facilities, and on-line registration is available at the N. C State University College of Textiles (who are hosting the workshop). A brief introduction to the processing of forensic images, with illustrations of typical before-and-after images, is intended for beginners in the field who wish to learn about the most useful functions and workflow.
Tuesday, June 7 - Friday, June 10, 2011 - The four-day hands-on course on Quantitative Image Analysis will again be presented at the University of Missouri, Columbia, MO. This will be the ninth year for this well-attended workshop, which provides attendees with a thorough grounding in Photoshop, image processing and measurement, stereology, and an opportunity to work on their own images. Contact Dr. Lou Ross, Electron Microscopy Core Facility, W136 Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211-5120, (573) 882-4777, fax 884-5414. Information on the course, contents, and facilities is available on-line.
These courses utilize Adobe Photoshop as a basic imaging platform, with plug-in routines that implement the algorithms for processing and measurement illlustrated in my book The Image Processing Cookbook, 2nd edition which was written to support these courses and to provide a hands-on teaching guide for the processing and analysis of technical, scientific and forensic images. (See more about all my books on the "Books" page.) The set of Photoshop plug-ins described in the Cookbook and used in the courses can be downloaded from the "Software" page
On-site workshops on image analysis can be customized to your organization's needs, which typically run 2 to 4 days and are very cost effective for 8-15 persons. Either Adobe Photoshop or Media Cybernetics Image Pro Plus can be used as a base program. You can download an outline (Acrobat pdf format) that shows the main topics that are usually covered. For more information, scheduling, and costs contact me directly.
I estimate that I have now taught three- and four-day courses to approximately 4000 students, and at least that many more have attended a one-day tutorial (plus teaching semester-long courses at NCSU for 20 years). But there are lots more people who would benefit from this information than I will ever be able to reach personally, so I've turned to technology to help. The Molecular Expressions microscopy web site hosted by Mike Davidson's group at Florida State University has an on-line set of my lecture notes enhanced by dozens of interactive Java applets, covering many of the topics that I present in a typical one-day tutorial. I encourage you to check it out.For further info: