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MAT 265: Open Projects in Optical/Motion - Computational Processes Resources

 

Research Labs and People


Advanced Graphics Lab, UCSB
Associate Professor
Research Focus

http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/~psen/
Pradeep Sen
Rendering/Image Synthesis and Computational Image Processing


Key Publications

http://graphics.stanford.edu/ | http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/~psen/


Camera Culture, MIT Lab
Director
Research Focus

http://cameraculture.media.mit.edu/
Ramesh Raskar
HR3D: Glasses-free 3D Display using Dual-stacked LCDs
Looking around corners using Femoto-Photography (News on BBC), (News on economist)
NETRA:Eyetests on a Mobile Phone
Motion deblurring, Multi-flash camera for Depth Edge Detection


Key Publications

http://cameraculture.media.mit.edu/publications


Computational Research, MIT
Director
Research Focus


http://groups.csail.mit.edu/graphics/
Frédo Durand
Computer Depiciton and Non-Photorealistic Rendering
Computational Photography and Video
Decoupling of data into meaningful components
Face Transfer with Multilinear Models
Interctive Tone Mapping


Key Publications

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/graphics/publications.html


CAVE, Columbia University
Director
Research Focus

http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/CAVE/
Shree Nayar
Active Refocusing of Images and Videos
Adaptive dynamic range Imaging
Applications of 360 Degree Cameras
Bigshot: A Digital Camera for Education
More


Key Publications

http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/CAVE/publications/


Four Eyes Lab, UCSB
People
Research Focus

http://ilab.cs.ucsb.edu/
Matthew Turk
Mobile Computational Photography (in collaboration with Nokia Research Center)
Generalized Autofocus
4EyesFace--Detecting, Tracking and Aligning Faces in Real-Time
Assisted, Embedded Pose Estimator for 3D Reconstruction
More


Key Publications

http://ilab.cs.ucsb.edu/index.php/component/jbibliography/?view=jbibliography


Computational Vision, CALTECH
Director
Research Focus

http://www.vision.caltech.edu/
Pietro Perona
Visipedia Project
Non-Parametric Probabilistic Image Segmentation
More


Key Publications

http://www.vision.caltech.edu/publications/publications.html


Vision Learning Graphics Group, NYU
People
Research Focus


Related Class

http://vlg.cs.nyu.edu/Main/HomePage

Rob Fergus
Object Recognition
Computational Photography: use of low-level image statistics on blur removal problems; novel designs of camera hardware; and the acquisition and use of lightfields.
Computational Photography


Key Publications

http://cs.nyu.edu/~fergus/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/PmWiki/Publications


Computer Graphics Laboratory, Stanford
People
Research Focus

http://www-graphics.stanford.edu/

Marc Levoy
Frankencamera
FCam API
Light fields and computational photography
Camera 2.0: New computing platforms for computational photography


Key Publications

Marc Levoy Publications
http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/fcam/


GVI, Harvard
People
Research Focus


http://gvi.seas.harvard.edu/
Todd Zickler
Statistics of Real-World Hyperspectral Images
Learning Object Color Models from Multi-view Constraints
Shape from Specular Reflections


Key Publications

http://gvi.seas.harvard.edu/publications


GRAIL, University of Washington
People
Research Focus

http://grail.cs.washington.edu/
Steven Seitz
The Dimensionality of Scene Appearance
Multi-View Stereo for Community Photo Collections (photosynth)
The Space of All Stereo Images


Key Publications

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/seitz/pubs.html


Princeton Graphics Group, Princeton
People
Research Focus

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/gfx/

Szymon Rusinkiewicz
3D Scanning Research at Princeton
Line Drawings of 3D shapes
Rendering with multi-light image collections and images with normals


Key Publications

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/gfx/publications.php


Computer Graphics Group, Ulm University, Germany
Director
Research Focus

http://www.uni-ulm.de/in/mi/graphics.html

Hendrik Lensch
Real-time temporal shaping of high-speed video streams
Constructing Geometry from Caustic Images
Acquisition and Analysis of Bispectral Bidirectional Reflectance and Reradiation Distribution Functions
Two-Level Ray Tracing with Reordering for Highly Complex Scenes


Key Publications

http://www.uni-ulm.de/in/mi/graphics.html


Computational Perception Laboratory, Georgia Tech
People
Research Focus



Related Class

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/cpl/

Irfan Essa
Augmenting aerial earth maps with dynamic information from videos
3-Dimensional Visualization of the Operating Room Using Advanced Motion Capture: A Novel Paradigm to Expand Simulation-Based Surgical Education
Bilayer Segmentation of Webcam Videos Using Tree-Based Classifiers
Computational Photography


Key Publications

http://academics.irfanessa.com/


UCSC
People
Research Focus



Related Class

University of California, Santa Cruz
James Davis

Video Conferencing Relighting Using Infrared Illumination
A Camera Based Pointing Interface for Mobile Devices
Aerial Photography using a Nokia N95
Looking Around the Corner using Transient Imaging with Ramesh Raskar
Computational photography and vision on mobile devices

Key Publications

http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~davis/publications.html


Heidelberg Collaboratory HCI, University Heidelberg
People
Research Focus

http://hci.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/

Bernd Jahne
Computational Photography
Dynamische 3D-Bildanalyse

Key Publications

http://hci.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/Publications/


VisionLAB, Heriot-Watt University and University of Edinburgh
People
Research Focus

http://www.eps.hw.ac.uk/~pf21/

Paolo Favaro
Spatio-temporal Image Analysis for Flow Measurements

Key Publications

http://www.eps.hw.ac.uk/~pf21/pages/page2/page2.html


Computer Graphics, TU Braunschweig
People
Research Focus

http://graphics.tu-bs.de/

Marcus Magnor
3D Reconstruction of Planetary Nebulae
Photo Zoom
Virtual Video Camera

Key Publications

http://graphics.tu-bs.de/publications/


Sato Laboratory, institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo
People
Research Focus

http://www.hci.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/


Yoichi Sato
Sensing human motions / Understanding human activities
Reflectance analysis / Image-based modeling
Vision-based interactive systems

Key Publications

http://www.hci.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/publications.html


Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Israel Institute of Technology
People
Research Focus

http://webee.technion.ac.il/~yoav/

Yoav Y. Schechner
HDR CFA Image Rendering
Near-Infrared Imaging
Automatic Face Smoothing - Setup at the Swiss Camera Museum, Vevey, Switzerland

Key Publications

http://webee.technion.ac.il/~yoav/publications/


IVRG, EPFL
People
Research Focus

http://ivrg.epfl.ch/index.html
Sabine Süsstrunk
Underwater CauStereo
Depth from defocus vs. Stereo
Thermal Infra-red
Spectral and Dynamic Range Modulation Imaging
Ultrasound De-noising by Spatially Varying Frequency Compounding

Key Publications

http://ivrg.epfl.ch/publications/index.html


 

Computer Graphics


Computer Vision Research Lab, UCSB
Director
Research Focus

http://excelsior.cs.ucsb.edu/lab.htm
Yuan-Fang Wang
Modeling the 3D Scenes using a single COTS (commercial-off-the-shelf) digital camera or camcorder


Key Publications

http://excelsior.cs.ucsb.edu/publications.html


James Z. Wang Research Group, Penn State
Director
Research Focus

http://wang.ist.psu.edu/docs/projects.shtml

James Z. Wang
Media Annotation and Aesthetics
Climate Informatics
Cypriot Digital Antiquities Repository


Key Publications

http://wang.ist.psu.edu/docs/publications.shtml


C2, Yale
People
Research Focus

http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/c2/
Julie Dorsey, Holly Rushmeier
Applications of Perception to Computer Graphics
Applications of Computer Graphics in Cultural Heritage
Recovering Shape and Reflectance


Key Publications

http://cs.yale.edu/c2/index.php/people/primary-faculty/julie-dorsey#publications-tab
http://cs.yale.edu/c2/index.php/people/primary-faculty/holly-rushmeier


Computer Graphics, Berkeley

Research Focus


http://graphics.berkeley.edu/

A Theory of Differential Photometric Stereo for Unknown BRDFs
Real-Time Rough Refraction
Personalized Photograph Ranking and Selection System


Key Publications

http://graphics.berkeley.edu/papers/index.html


Computer Graphics, UCSD
People
Research Focus



CISA3

http://graphics.ucsd.edu/index.php
Henrik Wann Jensen
Stereoscopic 3D Copy & Paste
Computing the Scattering Properties of Participating Media using Lorenz-Mie Theory
A Spectral BSSRDF for Shading Human Skin
More
http://cisa3.calit2.net/


Key Publications

http://graphics.ucsd.edu/publications.php


IMAGER Computer Graphics Lab, The University of British Columbia
People
Research Focus


http://www.cs.ubc.ca/nest/imager/imager.php

Wolfgang Heidrich
Hand-Held Schlieren Photography with Light Field Probes
Optical Image Processing Using Light Modulation Displays
A Theory of Plenoptic Multiplexing
Color correction for tone mapping

Key Publications

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~heidrich/Papers/index.html


Media and Communication Lab, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
People
Research Focus


http://mc.eistar.net/Visual%20Computing%20Group.htm


Wenyu Liu
Shape Representation
Shape Matching and Classification
Object Recognition

Key Publications

http://mc.eistar.net/Visual%20Computing%20Group.htm


CMLab, National Taiwan University
People
Research Focus

http://graphics.csie.ntu.edu.tw/

Yung-Yu Chuang
Digital Matting and Compositing

Key Publications

http://graphics.csie.ntu.edu.tw/publication.php


Broadband Network & Digital Media Lab, Tsinghua University
People
Research Focus

http://media.au.tsinghua.edu.cn/qhdai.html

Di Wu
Staggered exposure using distributed array of cameras
Visual time-stamp for timing verification of camera arrays
Coded Illumination using distributed array of cameras

Key Publications

http://media.au.tsinghua.edu.cn/wudi.jsp



Conference

ICCP

IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography
2009
2010
2011


Articles: Magazine, News and Journals

Brian Hayes

Computational Photography

Marc Levoy, Stanford University

Technical perspective: Computational photography on large collections of images

Irfan Essa, Georgia Institute of Technology

Computational photography and video: interacting and creating with videos and images

Natasha Gelfand, Nokia Research, Palo Alto

Multi-exposure imaging on mobile devices

Marc Levoy, Stanford University

Technical perspective: Computational photography on large collections of images


IEEE

Daniel L. Mark, Duke Imaging and Spectroscopy Program

Computational photography and compressive holography

Shree K. Nayar,Columbia University

Computational Cameras: Redefining the Image

Yingen iong, Nokia Res. Center Palo Alto

Fast Image Labeling for Creating High-Resolution Panoramic Images on Mobile Devices


SIGGRAPH

Jack Tumblin, Northwestern University

Concepts in computational photography

Paul Debevec, USC

Computational photography: advanced topics

Ramesh Raskar, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs

Computational photography

Yosuke Bando, The University of Tokyo

Extracting depth and matte using a color-filtered aperture

Dilip Krishnan, New York University

Dark flash photography

Eric P. Bennett, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Computational time-lapse video

Ramesh Raskar, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL)

Glare aware photography: 4D ray sampling for reducing glare effects of camera lenses