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Digital Visual Effects, Spring 2006

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High dynamic range imaging
Commercial software
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VFX companies
Effects films
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Related courses

Digital Visual Effects, Spring 2005, National Taiwan University
Comnputer Vision, University of Washington
Vision for Graphics, University of Washington, 2001
Computational Photography, MIT, 2006
Digital Video Special Effects, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004
Digital Video Special Effects, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003
Digital Video Special Effects, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2002
Digital Video Special Effects, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2001
Digital Video Special Effects, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2000
Computer Graphics for Film Production, University of Virginia, 2004
3-D Animation & Special Effects, University of Virginia, 2001
Rendering and Image Processing, Carnegie Mellon University, 2004
Digital Photography, University of Washington, 2003
Machine Learning for Computer Graphics, University of Toronto, 2004
Vision Algorithms, University of Washington, 2004
Introduction to Computer Vision, Brown University, 2004
3D Photography, UNC, 2004
Advanced Topics in Computer Vision, Johns Hopkins University, 2005
Computer Vision II, UCSD, 2004
3D Photography, Columbia, 2005
Advances in Computer Vision: Learning and Interfaces, MIT, 2005

High dynamic range imaging

Columbia University HDR Research
High Dynamic Range Image and Video Processing
A list of HDR related software
HDRShop
RASCAL
AHDRIA & AHDRIC
Greg Ward's HDR creation tool
Reinhard's tone mapping for HDRShop
logview program for tone mapping
Photomatix a commercial HDR and tone mapping tool
The Future of Digital Imaging - High Dynamic Range Photography
Aperture Based High Dynamic Range Imaging
Wikipedia on HDR
FAQ - High Dynamic Range Images in Photography

Commercial software

2d3
Mokey
Ultimatte
Shake
Pixel Farm
REALVIZ
RE:Vision Effects
Avid
TIMETRACK
DARTFISH

Free software

Linux Motion Picture Pipeline Software List
Blender3D
VirtualDub
Snoop
KLT tracker
AHDRIA: automated HDR software
hugin: Panorama Tools GUI
AutoPano
sba: A Generic Sparse Bundle Adjustment Package
Camera Calibration Toolbox for Matlab
A Flexible New Technique for Camera Calibration

Visual effects companies

Industrial Light & Magic
Dreamworks
Rhythm & Hues
Weta Digital
Double Negative Visual Effects
Blur Studio

Effects films

Film Milestones in VFX
The Matrix
The Lord of the Rings
Spider-man

Papers

SIGGRAPH 2005 papers
SIGGRAPH 2004 papers
SIGGRAPH 2003 papers
SIGGRAPH 2002 papers
SIGGRAPH 2001 papers
SIGGRAPH 2000 papers
Other graphics papers maintained by Ke-Sen Huang
ICCV 2003 papers

Other interesting links

Cinefex Magzine
VFXHQ: Visual Effects Headquarters
VFX Online
VFXPro
fxguide
Matchmoving software list
405: The Movie
Peerless Production
George Borshukov
Forsyth and Ponce's Computer Vision book
GaTech, Computer Vision course
PSU, Computer Vision course
Weizmann, Advanced Topics in Computer Vision
Bilkent, Computer Vision course
University of Toronto, Foundations of Computer Vision
MIT, Advances in Computer Vision
Useful Matlab functions for computer vision by Peter Kovesi
Affine Covariant Features