CS 638-1: Computational Photography Spring 2010

Computational Photography Applications, Code, and Datasets

Applications

• Nokia Image Space
• Mobvis
• AutoStitch image stitching for creating panoramic images (Univ. British Columbia)
• PTgui panoramic image creation
• Photosynth (Microsoft)
  • A photosynth of the U.S. Presidential Inauguration 2009
• Seadragon image viewer (Microsoft)
• SenseCam (Microsoft)
• PhotoCity
• Google Goggles for image-based web search
• Google Image Swirl for semantic clustering of web images
• Goggle Landmark Recognition Demo
• Panoramio images organized by location (Google)
• Start 3D - make 3D photos from a pair of images
• Polar Rose face recognition for Facebook, Flickr and cellphone images
• Portrait Professional portrait enhancement
• Like.com - visual product search for shopping
• Tin Eye - image duplicate detection and similarity search
• Sketch to Image
  • Retrievr - sketch-based image search of Flickr photographs
  • imgSeek sketch-based image search
  • Sketch2Photo (Tsinghua Univ.)
• Photo Pop-Up - automatically create pop-up 3D models from a single photograph (Univ. Illinois)
• Shape contexts (UC Berkeley)
• Gist (MIT)
• Games
  • LabelMe image annotation (MIT)
  • Gwap games for image labeling including the ESP game (CMU)
  • CoverGuess for labeling book covers (LibraryThing)
• Image Completion
  • Photoshop's Content-Aware Fill
  • Gimp's Resynthesizer
• Dual photography (Stanford)
• Focus bracketed image stacking (HeliconSoft)
• i23 - Rapid Interactive 3D Reconstruction from a Single Image (see also the paper) (Stanford)
• GrabCut image segmentation (Microsoft)
• Surface Depth Hallucination (Univ. Manchester)
• Pictosphere
• Super-resolution video enhancement (vReveal) (see also video demos)
• Single pixel camera (Rice Univ.)
• Interactive relighting (HP)

Code

• AHDRIA high dynamic range imaging software
• Anamorphosis creation software
• AndreaMosaic for creating photo montages
• AutoPano for creating panoramic images
• HDRShop
• Hugin panorama image stitcher
• KLT Feature Tracker
• Voodoo Camera Tracker (DigiLab)
• SIFT keypoint detector (Univ. British Columbia)
• Code for finding and downloading Flickr images
• Scale-invariant interest point detection
• Affine covariant region detection
• Various code from INRIA
• Various code from Oxford

Datasets

• ImageNet containing millions of images associated with nouns in WordNet
• 80 Million Tiny Images (MIT)
• LabelMe dataset
• Caltech 101
• Caltech 256
• Labeled Faces in the Wild (UMass)
• Animals with Attributes (Max Planck Institute)
• PubFig face dataset of public figures (Columbia)
• CMU list of image datasets
• Street-level image collecctions: Google Street View, EveryScape, and Mapjack
• Panoramio images organized by location (Google)