Digital Visual Effects

Digital Visual Effects, Spring 2025

Jump to...

02/19 introduction
02/26 cameras
02/26 HDR Imaging
03/12 tone mapping
03/19 image morphing
03/26 features
04/02 image stitching
04/09 motion estimation
04/16 camera calibration
04/23 structure from motion
04/30 matting and compositing

Lectures

Date	Topic	slides	readings/related links

2025/02/19	introduction	ppt/pdf/4-up pdf	405: The Movie Gatech VFX course (2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003) Introduction video for CV4VE by Rich Radke Computer Vision for Visual Effects by Rich Radke
2025/02/26	cameras	ppt/pdf/4-up pdf	Ramanath, Snyder, Bilbro, and Sander. Demosaicking Methods for Bayer Color Arrays, Journal of Electronic Imaging, 11(3), pp306-315. Karaimer and Brown. A Software Platform for Manipulating the Camera Imaging Pipeline, ECCV 2016.
2025/02/26 2025/03/05	HDR imaging	ppt/pdf/4-up pdf	Paul E. Debevec, Jitendra Malik. Recovering High Dynamic Range Radiance Maps from Photographs, SIGGRAPH 1997. G. Ward. Fast Robust Image Registration for compositing High Dynamic Range Photographs from Hand-held Exposures, Journal of Graphics Tools, 2003. Notes on Robertson's algorithm
2025/03/12	tone mapping	ppt/pdf/4-up pdf	Erik Reinhard, Michael Stark, Peter Shirley, Jim Ferwerda, Photographics Tone Reproduction for Digital Images, SIGGRAPH 2002. Raanan Fattal, Dani Lischinski, Michael Werman, Gradient Domain High Dynamic Range Compression, SIGGRAPH 2002. Fredo Durand, Julie Dorsey, Fast Bilateral Filtering for the Display of High Dynamic Range Images, SIGGRAPH 2002.
2025/03/19	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
2025/03/26 2025/04/02	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.
2025/04/02	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.
2025/04/09 2025/04/16	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. impressionist program
2025/04/16 2025/04/23	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
2025/04/23	structure from motion	ppt/pdf/4-up pdf >	SFMedu: A Structure from Motion System for Education 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
2025/04/30 2025/05/07	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.