University of Bordeaux

This course is an introduction to digital image processing and analysis. Students benefit from an overview of image processing methods (histogram restauration, convolution filters, mathematical morphology, segmentation) and image analysis methods (pattern recognition, identification, etc.). During the course students: learn how to manage 2D, 3D, and animated images; understand human perception and image acquisition; discover image segmentation, registration, and analysis; concrete implementation through existing tools or simple script development; study algorithms to obtain features from images (histogram, filters, descriptors).

This course studies the theories and concepts of Judaism. It examines its principal texts and practices as the literature and customs of this religion serve as a gateway to understanding its fundamental philosophical structure.

This course provides an introduction to the existence of phonetic variation and change in modern English, as well as tools to detect and analyze this variation. Far from being a theoretical course on the major changes that took place in the history of English, this course focuses on language as can be directly accessed using recent and contemporary sources and tools. The first part of the course discusses how pronunciation was indicated in older dictionaries as objects of knowledge and culture, starting from 16th and 17th century books, and mainly focusing on 18th to 20th century dictionaries. The second part investigates how a collection of dictionaries from various periods can be used as a relevant corpus to identify and explain phonetic variation and change in present-day English as well as from a historical perspective, including the way new linguistic features can be born and spread through the language. The final part of the course demonstrates how to collect, annotate, and analyze oral English. It includes an introduction to the use of the speech analysis software PRAAT.

This is a second level beginning French course that covers oral comprehension, grammatical structure, reading, writing, and pronunciation. Students actively engage in conversations in French to gain access to the level of fluency that is spoken among the French population.

This course provides an introduction to the concepts, formalism, and applications of quantum mechanics in different disciplinary fields of science and technology: mathematics, computer science and information technology, basic physics, and physico-chemistry. It includes instruction from specialists within these disciplines in connection with current research issues.