Course Desc<x>ription
<br>This course covers several fundamental and interesting topics in computational photography and computer 
<br>vision, such as colorization, texture synthesis, inpainting, HDR imaging, tone mapping, deblurring, 
<br>stabilization, super-resolution, matting, warping, matchmoving, and so on. The goal of this course is to learn 
<br>the selected topics and know how they can be used to create visual effects in images and videos. Students 
<br>are expected to get hands-on experience of related techniques. 
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<br>Textbook
<br>Computer Vision for Visual Effects, Richard J. Radke, Cambridge University Press, 
<br>2012
<br>http://cvfxbook.com/
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<br>Reference
<br>Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications, Richard Szeliski, 2010
<br>http://szeliski.org/Book/
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<br>Teaching Method
<br>3-hour lectures and discussions every week
<br>All assignments, readings, and projects are done in groups. 
<br>Each group contains 2-3 students.
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<br>Topics
<br> 1 introduction, image formation, color, color harmonization, color grading
<br> 2 colorization, chrominance blending
<br> 3 texture synthesis, image analogies
<br> 4 inpainting, seam carving, internet-ba<x>sed inpainting, sparse coding
<br> 5 HDR imaging, tone mapping
<br> 6 bilateral filtering, nonlocal means, joint bilateral filtering
<br> 7 gradient domain compression, HDR related
<br> 8 intrinsic images, relighting
<br> 9 graphical models
<br>10 matting
<br>11 poisson image editing, patch-ba<x>sed editing
<br>12 warping and morphing, rigid morphing
<br>13 faces
<br>14 features and matching
<br>15 matching and dense correspondences
<br>16 dense correspondences
<br>17 matchmoving
<br>18 term project poster
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<br>Evaluation
<br>80%: 10 assignment + 4 projects
<br>10%: weekly readings
<br>10%: participation
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