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When? Where? Who?

Classes are on Tuesdays 14:30-16:30, in the Dept. of Elect. Eng., Meyer Building, Room 353.
All classes are taught by Yoav Schechner.
T.A. Anna Oyzerman (ania@tx.technion.ac.il).
Please send an email to Anna if you wish to register to the course mailing list.

Syllabus

• Omni-directional vision
• Dynamic range enhancement
• Correction for camera nonlinearities
• Image fusion
• Multispectral imaging
• Image mosaics and Stereo Panaoramas
• Vision in uncontrolled illumination
• Vision through scattering media
• Exploitation of physical optics for unconventional imaging
• Optical microscopy

 

Course Prerequisites

A background in image processing is assumed.
Preferably, the participants had learned an imaging course such as:
046200 – Image processing and analysis (ANA”T).
236873 – Computer vision
114210 – Optics.
If an official background is missing, students should consult the lecturer to confirm their practical knowledge.

Available articles for the final project:

5. An Empirical BSSRDF Model, Craig Donner, Jason Lawrence, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Toshiya Hachisuka, Henrik Wann Jensen, Shree Nayar
Examples for good presentations: presentation1
presentation2
Examples for good projects: project1
project2
You can view the tips for the presentation and project here.

Bibliography (until this point of the course)

• Recovering high dynamic range radiance maps from photographs, Debevec P. E. & Malik J., Computer Graphics Proceedings, SIGGRAPH 97. 1997: 369-378
• Robot Vision, Berthold Klaus, Paul Horn, The MIT press, ch. 10, pp. 203-229
• On Photometric Issues in 3D Visual Recognition from a Single 2D Image, Amnon Shashua, International Journal of Computer Vision, v.21 n.1-2, pp.99-122, January. 1997.
• What is the set of images of an object under all possible illumination conditions?, Belhumeur P. N. & Kriegman D. J., International Journal of Computer Vision. 1998; 28(3): 245-260.
• Analysis of planar light fields from homogeneous convex curved surfaces under distant illumination, Ramamoorthi R. & Hanrahan P., Proceedings of Human Vision and Electronic Imaging VI (part of Photonics West, 2001), pp. 185-198.
• Lambertian reflectance and linear subspaces, Basri R. & Jacobs D.W., IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. Feb. 2003; 25(2): 218-233
• On Photometric Issues in 3D Visual Recognition from a Single 2D Image, Amnon Shashua, International Journal of Computer Vision, v.21 n.1-2, pp.99-122, January. 1997.
• Analysis of planar light fields from homogeneous convex curved surfaces under distant illumination, Ramamoorthi R. & Hanrahan P., Proceedings of Human Vision and Electronic Imaging VI (part of Photonics West, 2001), pp. 185-198.
• Polarization-based vision through haze, Yoav Y. Schechner; Srinivas G. Narasimhan & Shree K. Nayar, Applied Optics 42, No. 3, pp. 511-525 (2003)
• Separation of transparent layers using focus, Yoav Y. Schechner; Nahum Kiryati & Ronen Basri, International Journal of Computer Vision 89 pp. 25-39 (2000).
• Polarization and statistical analysis of scenes containing a semi-reflector, Yoav Y. Schechner; Joseph Shamir & Nahum Kiryati, Journal of the Optical Society of America A 17, pp. 276-284 (2000).
• Clear underwater vision, Yoav Y. Schechner and Nir Karpel, Proc. IEEE CVPR, Vol. 1, pp. 536-543 (2004).
• A theory of multiplexed illumination, Schechner, Y.Y.; Nayar, S.K. & Belhumeur, P.N.; Proceedings. Ninth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, 2003 pp. 808 -815.
• Illumination multiplexing within fundamental limits, Nenanel Ratner and Yoav Y. Schechner, Proc. IEEE CVPR (2007)
• The Laplacian pyramid as a compact image code, Burt P.J. & Adelson E.H. , IEEE Transactions on Communications. April 1983; COM-31(4): 532-40.
• Pyramid methods in image processing, Adelson, E. H. , Anderson, C. H. ,Bergen, J. R. , Burt P. J. and Ogden J. M., RCA Engineer 29-6, Nov. 1984
• A Multiresolution Spline With Application to Image Mosaics, Burt P. J and Adelson E. H., ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol. 2, pp 217-236, Oct. 1983
• Polarization of light – web tutorial.
• Three-dimensional architecture of a polytene nucleus, Agard D. A.; Sedat J. W., Nature 21 April 1983; 302(5910): 676-81
• Separation of transparent layers using focus, Yoav Y. Schechner; Nahum Kiryati & Ronen Basri, International Journal of Computer Vision 89 pp. 25-39 (2000).
• Digital reconstruction of three-dimensional serially sectioned optical images, Macias Garza F.; Bovik A. C; Diller K. R.; Aggarwal S. J.; Aggarwal J. K., IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. July 1988; 36(7): 1067-75