CS 534: Computational Photography Fall 2016

Links Related to Computational Photography

• What is a Computational Camera? (Shree Nayar, Columbia University)
• Jack Tumblin's Questions for the Field
• The Computer Vision Industry (Lowe)
• Cubism and Cameras (Glassner)
• ALIPR automatic photo tagging and visual image search
• Story Picturing Engine
• Instagram mobile-photo-editing-and-sharing
• LabelMe image annotation
• Gwap games for image labeling including ESP Game
• Presidential Warp game
• Multiperspective Imaging (Univ. Washington)
• PhotoSynth talk by B. Aguera y Arcas
• Photo Clipart - a system for inserting new objects into existing photographs in a context-sensitive manner
• Video Google - fast exemplar object search in feature length movies
• Tiny Images - a collection of over 80 million thumnail sized photographs collected from the web and free for research use
• Best Visual Illusion of the Year
• Ultimate Guide to Optical Illusions (GOpromos.com)
• Optical Illusions by Latisse

Cameras

• Throwable Ball Camera
• Educational BigShot camera
• EyeBall camera (Remington)
• GelSight camera
• Looxcie "wear and share" video camera
• Lytro light field camera
• SenseCam wearable camera (Microsoft)
• SynthCam for iPhone and iPad (Stanford)
• FuturePicture for camera hacking
• Microsoft Kinect RGB-D camera
• Leap Motion 3D camera
• Comet structured light 3D camera (Steinbichler)
• Various vendors of structured light based 3D cameras
• Velodyne Lidar-based 3D camera
• 3D Hero System Camera Pair (GoPro)
• Radian motion, time-lapse device

Photography

• Flash Applets on some Technical Aspects of Photography (Stanford)
• PetaPixel
• A History of Photography
• Digital-Photography.org
• Dick Lyon's Lecture Series on Photographic Technology
• Digital Photography Tutorials (Cambridge in Colour)
• How Digital Cameras Work (HowStuffWorks)
• Zen and Photography
• Geoff Lawrence Photography Tutorials and Tips
• PhotoFunia
• Milky Way Scientists
• Earth selfie mosaic
• Dumpr
• Out of Bounds (OOB) Photography
• Anamorphosis image creation from photographs
• Camera Obscura
• Making your own room into a camera obscura (National Geographic)
• How to transform a room into a camera obscura (Howcast)

HDR

• HDRShop
• WebHDR

Panoramas

• Autostitch (Univ. British Columbia)
• PTgui
• Mont Blanc panorama (largest panorama to date at 365 gigapixels, created from 70,000 images)
• Panorama from the top of the World Trade Center (Time Magazine)

Conferences

• 2016 International Conference on Computational Photography
• 2015 International Conference on Computational Photography
• 2014 International Conference on Computational Photography
• 2013 International Conference on Computational Photography
• 2012 International Conference on Computational Photography
• 2011 International Conference on Computational Photography
• 2010 International Conference on Computational Photography

Research Groups on Computational Photography

• CMU (Efros)
• Columbia University (Nayar)
• Google
• Microsoft
• MIT (Durand, Freeman, Adelson, Torralba)
• MIT (Raskar)
• Stanford University (Levoy)
• University of Washington (Seitz)

People

• Ted Adelson (MIT)
• Amit Agrawal (MERL)
• Maneesh Agrawala (UC Berkeley)
• Peter Belhumeur (Columbia Univ.)
• Tamara Berg (SUNY Stony Brook)
• Michael Brown (National University of Singapore)
• Michael Cohen (Microsoft)
• Antonio Criminisi (Microsoft)
• Andrew Davidhazy (RIT)
• Paul Debevec (USC)
• Fredo Durand (MIT)
• Alyosha Efros (CMU)
• Irfan Essa (Georgia Tech)
• Hany Farid (Dartmouth)
• Bill Freeman (MIT)
• James Hays (CMU)
• Derek Hoiem (Univ. Illinois)
• Jean-Francois Lalonde (CMU)
• Svetlana Lazebnik (Univ. North Carolina)
• Dani Lischinski (Hebrew Univ.)
• Wojciech Matusik (MIT)
• Shree Nayar (Columbia Univ.)
• Ramesh Raskar (MIT)
• Erik Reinhard (Max Planck Institute)
• Carsten Rother (Microsoft)
• Steve Seitz (Univ. Washington)
• Noah Snavely (Cornell)
• Jian Sun (Microsoft)
• Rick Szeliski (Microsoft)
• Chi-Keung Tang (HKUST)
• Antonio Torralba (MIT)
• Jack Tumblin (Northwestern Univ.)
• Tom Yeh (MIT)
• Jingyi Yu (Univ. Delaware)

Datasets

• CV Datasets on the Web
• ImageNet image database (Stanford)
• Computer Vision Test Images (CMU)