Course Content (Syllabus)
1. Introduction to computer science, historical evolution, computer categories, computer hardware and software, computer peripherals.
2. Number systems, coding alphanumeric characters, encoding of images.
3. Coding systems (vector-raster), image compression (lossy and lossless).
4. Image formats, image processing (examples, practice).
5. Images-photos and intellectual property rights, defamation by using images-photos, pictures authenticity.
6. Audio-digitizing process and situational analysis, video (technical possibilities-problems).
7. Digitization process (scanning, digital photography-technical concepts, operating principles, characteristics), color systems, practice.
8. Image processing-open source software GIMP(I)
9. Image processing-open source software GIMP(II)
10. Image processing-open source software GIMP(III)
11. Image processing-open source software GIMP(IV)
12. Image processing-open source software GIMP(V)
13. Sound and video processing with the use of open source software