Digital Visual Effects

Digital Visual Effects, Spring 2012

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02/23 introduction
03/01 image morphing
03/08 features
03/15 image stitching
03/22 motion estimation
04/12 camera calibration
04/19 structure from motion
04/26 matting and compositing
05/03 matting and compositing
05/10 Image-based modeling
05/17 3D Photography
05/24 Image-based lighting and faces
06/07 Stereoscopic media
06/14 Textures and Inpainting

Lectures

Date	Topic	slides	readings/related links

2012/02/23	introduction	ppt/pdf/4-up pdf	405: The Movie Gatech VFX course (2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003)
2012/03/01	image morphing	ppt/pdf/4-up pdf	George Wolberg, Image morphing: a survey, The Visual Computer, 1998, pp360-372. Thaddeus Beier, Shawn Neely. Feature-Based Image Metamorphosis, SIGGRAPH 1992. Tommer Leyvand, Daniel Cohen-Or, Gideon Dror, Dani Lischinski. Data-Driven Enhancement of Facial Attractiveness, SIGGRAPH 2008. Michael Jackson's "Black or White" MTV Morphing software review
2012/03/08	features	ppt/pdf/4-up pdf	Chris Harris, Mike Stephens, A Combined Corner and Edge Detector, 4th Alvey Vision Conference, 1998, pp147-151. David Lowe, Distinctive Image Features from Scale-Invariant Keypoints, IJCV, 60(2), 2004, pp91-110. Known implementations of SIFT. SIFT Keypoint Detector, David Lowe. Matlab SIFT Tutorial, University of Toronto. Matthew Brown, Richard Szeliski, Simon Winder, Multi-Scale Oriented Patches, MSR-TR-2004-133, 2004.
2012/03/15	image stitching	ppt/pdf/4-up pdf	Richard Szeliski, Image Alignment and Stitching: A Tutorial, Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Computer Vision, 2006. Richard Szeliski and H.-Y. Shum, Creating full view panoramic image mosaics and texture-mapped models, SIGGRAPH 1997. M. Brown and D. G. Lowe, Recognising Panorama, ICCV 2003.
2012/03/22	motion estimation	ppt/pdf/4-up pdf	B.D. Lucas and T. Kanade, An Iterative Image Registration Technique with an Application to Stereo Vision, Proceedings of the 1981 DARPA Image Understanding Workshop, 1991, pp121-130. S. Baker and I. Matthews, Lucas-Kanade 20 Years On: A Unifying Framework, IJCV, 2004, pp221-255. J. R. Bergen, P. Anandan, K.J. Hanna and R. Hingorani, Hierarchical Model-Based Motion Estimation, ECCV 1992, pp237-252. J. Shi and C. Tomasi, Good Features to Track, CVPR 1994, pp593-600. Michael Black and P. Anandan, The robust estimation of multiple motions: parametric and piecewise-smooth flow fields, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, pp75-104.
2012/04/12	camera calibration	ppt/pdf/4-up pdf	K. Madsen, H.B. Nielsen, O. Timgleff, Methods for Non-Linear Least Squares Problems, 2004. Camera Calibration Toolbox for Matlab
2012/04/19	structure from motion	ppt/pdf/4-up pdf	Richard Hartley, In Defense of the 8-point Algorithm, ICCV, 1995. Carlo Tomasi and Takeo Kanade, Shape and Motion from Image Streams: A Factorization Method, Proceedings of Natl. Acad. Sci., 1993. Manolis Lourakis and Antonis Argyros, The Design and Implementation of a Generic Sparse Bundle Adjustment Software Package Based on the Levenberg-Marquardt Algorithm, FORTH-ICS/TR-320, 2004. sba: A Generic Sparse Bundle Adjustment Package
2012/04/26 2012/05/03	matting and compositing	ppt/pdf/4-up pdf	Yung-Yu Chuang, Brian Curless, David Salesin, and Richard Szeliski, A Bayesian Approach to Digital Matting, CVPR 2001, pp264-271. Yung-Yu Chuang, Aseem Agarwala, Brian Curless, David H. Salesin, Richard Szeliski, Video Matting of Complex Scenes, SIGGRAPH 2002.
2012/05/10	image-based modeling	ppt/pdf/4-up pdf	P. Debevec, C. Taylor and J. Malik, Modeling and Rendering Architecture from Photographs: A Hybrid Geometry- and Image-Based Approach, SIGGRAPH 1996. Y. Horry, K. Anjyo and K. Arai, Tour Into the Picture: Using a Spidery Mesh Interface to Make Animation from a Single Image, SIGGRAPH 1997.
2012/05/17	3D Photography	ppt/pdf/4-up pdf	D. Scharstein and R. Szeliski. A Texonomy and Evaluation of Dense Two-Frame Stereo Correspondence Algorithm, IJCV 2002. S. Seitz and C. Dyer. Photorealistic Scene Reconstruction by Voxel Coloring, CVPR 1997. J.-Y. Bouguet and P. Perona. 3D Photography on Your Desk, ICCV 1998. A. Hertzman and S. Seitz. Shape and Materials by Example: A Photometric Stereo Appraoch, CVPR 2003.
2012/05/24	Faces and IBL	ppt/pdf/4-up pdf	Paul Debevec, Rendering Synthetic Objects into Real Scenes: Bridging Traditional and Image-based Graphics with Global Illumination and High Dynamic Range Photography, SIGGRAPH 1998. F. Pighin, J. Hecker, D. Lischinski, D. H. Salesin, and R. Szeliski. Synthesizing realistic facial expressions from photographs. SIGGRAPH 1998, pp75-84. Li Zhang, Noah Snavely, Brian Curless, Steven M. Seitz, Spacetime Faces: High Resolution Capture for Modeling and Animation, SIGGRAPH 2004. Blanz, V. and Vetter, T., A Morphable Model for the Synthesis of 3D Faces, SIGGRAPH 1999, pp187-194. Paul Debevec, Tim Hawkins, Chris Tchou, Haarm-Pieter Duiker, Westley Sarokin, Mark Sagar, Acquiring the Reflectance Field of a Human Face, SIGGRAPH 2000. Paul Debevec, Chris Tchou, Andreas Wenger, Tim Hawkins, Andy Gardner, Brian Emerson, Ansul Panday, A Lighting Reproduction Approach to Live-Action Compositing, SIGGRAPH 2002. Christoph Bregler, Malcolm Slaney, Michele Covell, Video Rewrite: Driving Visual Speeach with Audio, SIGGRAPH 1997. Tony Ezzat, Gadi Geiger, Tomaso Poggio, Trainable Videorealistic Speech Animation, SIGGRAPH 2002.
2012/06/07	stereoscopic media	ppt/pdf/4-up pdf	C.-H. Chang, C.-K. Liang and Y.-Y. Chuang, Content-Aware Display Adaptation and Interactive Editing for Stereoscopic Images, IEEE TMM 2011.
2012/06/14	Textures and Inpainting	ppt/pdf/4-up pdf	Alexei A. Efros, Thomas K. Leung, Texture Synthesis by Non-parametric Sampling, ICCV 1999. Li-Yi Wei, Marc Levoy, Fast Texture Synthesis Using Tree-Structured Vector Quantization, SIGGRAPH 2000. Aaron Hertzmann, Charles E. Jacobs, Nuria Oliver, Brian Curless, David H. Salesin, Image Analogies, SIGGRAPH 2001. Alexei A. Efros, William T. Freeman, Image Quilting for Texture Synthesis and Transfer, SIGGRAPH 2001.