CSC2530 Schedule

Note: The last 2 weeks in the schedule are tentative. They are placeholders to account for the two 'lost' lectures in the semester (Jan 7th and Jan 14th).







Date	Topic	Papers
Thu, Jan 13	Introduction



Part I: Basic Concepts



Thu, Jan 20	Modeling camera noise & non-linearities	[Kyros]: E. Martinec, Noise, dynamic range and bit depth in digital SLRs, S. Kuthirummal, A. Agarwala, D. B. Goldman, S. K. Nayar, Priors for Large Photo Collections and What They Reveal about Cameras, ECCV 2008 (WRR paper) S. W. Hasinoff, F. Durand, W. T. Freeman, Noise-Optimal Capture for High Dynamic Range Photography, CVPR 2010 (WRR paper) Y. Hwang, J.-S. Kim, I.-S. Kweon, Sensor noise modeling using the Skellam distribution: Application to the color edge detection, CVPR 2007 Additional background: P. Debevec, J. Malik, Recovering High Dynamic Range Radiance Maps from Photographs, ACM SIGGRAPH 1997 M. D. Grossberg, S. K. Nayar, Modeling the space of camera response functions, IEEE PAMI 2004 G. Healey, R. Kondepudy, Radiometric CCD Camera Calibration and Noise Estimation, IEEE PAMI 1994 R. N. Clark, Procedures for Evaluating Digital Camera Sensor Noise, Dynamic Range, and Full Well Capacities; Canon 1D Mark II Analysis, (web page) C. Liu, R. Szeliski, S. B. Kang, C. L. Zitnick, W. T. Freeman, Automatic Estimation and Removal of Noise from a Single Image, IEEE PAMI 2008 S. Lin, J. Gu, S. Yamazaki, H.-Y. Shum, Radiometric Calibration from a Single Image, IEEE CVPR 2004



Part II: Photo Manipulation, Restoration & Reconstruction



Thu, Jan 27	Using gradients	P. Perez, M. Gangnet, and A. Blake., Poisson Image Editing, ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 Z. Farbman, R. Fattal, D. Lischinski, R. Szeliski, Edge-preserving decompositions for multi-scale tone and detail manipulation, ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 (WRR paper) S. Avidan and A. Shamir, Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing, ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 Additional background: F. Durand, J. Dorsey, Fast bilateral filtering for the display of high-dynamic-range images, ACM SIGGRAPH 2002 M. Rubinstein, A. Shamir, S. Avidan, Improved seam carving for video retargeting, ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 R. Fattal, D. Lischinski, M. Werman, Gradient Domain High Dynamic Range Compression, ACM SIGGRAPH 2002 J. Elder, R. Goldberg, Image editing in the contour domain, IEEE PAMI 2001






Thu, Feb 3	Using texture & image regularity	V. Kwatra, A. Schodl, I. Essa, G. Turk, A. Bobick, Graphcut Textures: Image and Video Synthesis Using Graph Cuts, ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 D. Glasner, S. Bagon, M. Irani, Super-Resolution from a Single Image, IEEE ICCV 2009 (WRR paper) Additional background: D. Simakov, Y. Caspi, E. Shechtman, M. Irani, Summarizing visual data using bidirectional similarity, IEEE CVPR 2008 N. Jojic, B. J. Frey, A. Kannan, Epitomic analysis of appearance and shape, IEEE ICCV 2003 X. An, F. Pellacini, AppProp: all-pairs appearance-space edit propagation, ACM SIGGRAPH 2008






Thu, Feb 10	Using pixel similarity	Y.-Y. Chuang, B. Curless, D. Salesin, R. Szeliski, A Bayesian Approach to Digital Matting, IEEE CVPR 2001 A. Levin, A. Rav-Acha, D. Lischinski, Spectral Matting, IEEE CVPR 2007 (WRR paper) Additional background: A. R. Smith and J. Blinn, Blue Screen Matting, ACM SIGGRAPH 1996






Thu, Feb 17	Inpainting & deblurring	J. Hays and A. Efros, Scene Completion Using Millions of Photographs, ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 R. Fergus, B. Singh, A. Hertzmann, S. Roweis, W.Freeman , Removing camera shake from a single image, ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 (WRR paper) Additional background: M. Bertalmio, G. Sapiro, V. Caselles and C. Ballester, Image Inpainting, ACM SIGGRAPH 2001 A. Criminisi, P. Perez, K. Toyama, Region filling and object removal by exemplar-based inpainting, IEEE TIP 2004






Thu, Feb 24	No class






Thu, Mar 3	Using color	A. Levin, D. Lischinski, Y. Weiss, Colorization Using Optimization, ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 H. Y. Chong, S. J. Gortler, T. Zickler, A perception-based color space for illumination-invariant image processing, ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 (WRR paper) Additional background: E. Hsu, T. Mertens, S. Paris, S. Avidan, F. Durand, Light mixture estimation for spatially varying white balance, ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 P. Gehler, C. Rother, A. Blake, T. Sharp, T. Minka, Bayesian Color Constancy Revisited, IEEE CVPR 2008 R. Fattal, Single image dehazing, ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 E. Vazquez, J. van de Weijer, R. Baldrich, Image Segmentation in the Presence of Shadows and Highlights, ECCV 2008



Part III: Computational photography: integrating sensors, optics, lighting & computation



Thu, Mar 10	Computational illumination	S. Nayar, G. Krishnan, M. Grossberg, R. Raskar, Fast Separation of Direct and Global Components of a Scene using High Frequency Illumination, ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 (WRR paper) G. Petschnigg, M. Agrawala, H. Hoppe, R. Szeliski, M. Cohen, K. Toyama, Digital Photography with Flash and No-Flash Image Pairs, ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 L. Zhang and S. K. Nayar, Projection Defocus Analysis for Scene Capture and Image Display, ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Additional background: L. Yuan, J. Sun, L. Quan, H.-Y. Shum, Image Deblurring with Blurred/Noisy Image Pairs, ACM SIGGRAPH 2007






Thu, Mar 17	Temporal coding & motion blur	J. Telleen, A. Sullivan, J. Yee, P. Gunawardane, O. Wang, I. Collins, J. Davis, Synthetic Shutter Speed Imaging, Eurographics 2007 R. Raskar, A. Agrawal, J. Tumblin, Coded exposure photography: motion deblurring using fluttered shutter, ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 (WRR paper) Additional background: A. Levin, P. Sand, T. S. Cho, F. Durand, W. T. Freeman, Motion-invariant photography, ACM SIGGRAPH 2008






Thu, Mar 24	Optical coding & defocus blur	S. Hasinoff, K. Kutulakos, F. Durand, W. Freeman, Time-Constrained Photography, IEEE ICCV 2009 H. Nagahara, S. Kuthirummal, C. Zhou, S. K. Nayar, Flexible Depth of Field Photography, ECCV 2008 A. Levin, R. Fergus, F. Durand, W. T. Freeman, Image and depth from a conventional camera with a coded aperture, ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 (WRR paper) Additional background:






Thu, Mar 31	Light fields & wavefront coding	M. Levoy and P. Hanrahan, Light Field Rendering, ACM SIGGRAPH 1996 R. Ng, Fourier Slice Photography, ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 (WRR paper) A. Levin, S. Hasinoff, P. Green, F. Durand, W. Freeman, 4D Frequency Analysis of Computational Cameras for Depth of Field Extension, ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 Additional background: W. T. Cathey, E. R. Dowski, New paradigm for imaging systems, Applied Optics Z. Zhang, M. Levoy, Wigner Distributions and How They Relate to the Light Field, IEEE ICCP 2009 R. Ng, M. Levoy, M. Bredif, G. Duval, M. Horowitz, P. Hanrahan, Light Field Photography with a Hand-Held Plenoptic Camera, CSTR 2005-02 R. Ng, M. Levoy, M. Bredif, G. Duval, M. Horowitz, P. Hanrahan, Light Field Photography with a Hand-Held Plenoptic Camera, CSTR 2005-02



Part IV: Photography and the web



Thu, Apr 7		N. Snavely, R. Garg, S. M. Seitz, R. Szeliski, Finding paths through the worlds photos, ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 M. Goesele, N. Snavely, B. Curless, H. Hoppe, S. Seitz, Multi-View Stereo for Community Photo Collections, IEEE ICCV 2007 Additional background: M. Brown, D. Lowe, Recognizing Panoramas, IEEE ICCV 2003 D. Bitouk, N. Kumar, S. Dhillon, P. Belhumeur, S. K. Nayar, Face swapping: automatically replacing faces in photographs, ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 M. Brown and D. Lowe, Unsupervised 3D Object Recognition and Reconstruction in Unordered Datasets, 3DIM 2005 N. Snavely, S. Seitz, R. Szeliski, Photo tourism: Exploring photo collections in 3D, ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 R. Szeliski, Image Alignment and Stitching: A Tutorial, Foundations & Trends in Computer Vision 2006

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