1. Computational Photography and Videography Christian Theobalt and Ivo Ihrke Winter term 09/10

2. CPAV 09/10 – First Meeting – 2009/10/23 Coordinates  MPI – room 019  Wednesdays, 14:00 c.t.  Christian Theobalt –MPI, room 228 –theobalt@mpii.de  Ivo Ihrke –MPI, room 225 –ihrke@mpii.deihrke@mpii.de  Mailing List –seminar-cpav09@mpi-inf.mpg.de  Web Page –http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~theobalt/courses/Seminar_WS_2009/http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~theobalt/courses/Seminar_WS_2009/

3. CPAV 09/10 – First Meeting – 2009/10/23 Formal Requirements  Presence required  Read all papers and participate in discussion  One paper is “your paper” and you have to give a 40-45 minute presentation on it  Prepare a written report on the topic you presented  Grade: talk 50 %, report 50 %

4. CPAV 09/10 – First Meeting – 2009/10/23 Organizational Issues  Register by sending an Email to both of us  Topic assignment –Send list of ordered preferences by Friday (23 rd of Oct.) –We try to accommodate wishes as well as possible –We send out assignment on Monday, 26 th of Oct.  First topic presentation 2009/11/18 –(10 students)

5. CPAV 09/10 – First Meeting – 2009/10/23 Benefits  Practice one of the most important skills in science –Read and understand papers –Present scientific results  Discussion is essential –If you don’t participate you miss a big chance –Most ideas are developed in discussions about other papers  Prepare the seminar classes !  Benefit from the interaction in the group !

6. CPAV 09/10 – First Meeting – 2009/10/23 Organizational Issues  Topics will be covered in the order appearing on the seminar web page  If necessary, and mutually agreed on, dates can be exchanged  Presentations  45 min.  presenter leads the discussion on the papers  All participants are supposed to read the papers  Active participation in discussion is expected

7. CPAV 09/10 – First Meeting – 2009/10/23 Organizational Issues  Two scheduled meetings per topic –1. 3 weeks prior to presentation  Read papers for this meeting  Ask questions if you have difficulties  Discuss plans for presentation –2. 1 week prior to presentation  prepare a preliminary presentation  We can provide feedback

8. CPAV 09/10 – First Meeting – 2009/10/23 Organizational Issues  one office hour per week –Announced on seminar web page  You can ask questions by e-mail any time

9. CPAV 09/10 – First Meeting – 2009/10/23 Organizational Issues  Report –6 – 8 pages summary of major ideas of your topic –2 - 3 pages with your own ideas, e.g.,  Discuss limitations not mentioned in the paper and sketch a solution  Try to suggest improvements  Novel ideas based on content described in the papers  Your ideas can be the result of the discussion after your presentation ! –The idea is that you get a feeling for your specific topic surpassing the level of simply understanding a paper.

10. CPAV 09/10 – First Meeting – 2009/10/23 Organizational Issues  Report –Due date 2010/02/19 (2 1/2 weeks after last seminar) –Pdf by e-mail –We provide a LaTeX-style on the seminar page –If you use other software make it look like the LaTeX- example

11. CPAV 09/10 – First Meeting – 2009/10/23  Adelson & Bergen: The plenoptic function and elements of early vision, Computational Models of Visual Processing 1991  Levoy & Hanrahan: Light Field Rendering, SIGGRAPH’96 Image-Based Rendering Concepts

12. CPAV 09/10 – First Meeting – 2009/10/23 Camera Models and Noise  Healy & Kondepudy: Radiometric CCD Calibration and Noise Estimation, PAMI 1994  Kolb et al.: A Realistic Camera Model for Computer Graphics, SIGGRAPH 1995

13. CPAV 09/10 – First Meeting – 2009/10/23 Geometric Camera Calibration  Zhang: A flexible new technique for camera calibration, PAMI 2000  Hartley & Zisserman, Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision, chapter 5, Cambridge University Press, 2000

14. CPAV 09/10 – First Meeting – 2009/10/23 Fourier Analysis of Light Fields  Isaksen et al.: Dynamically Reparameterized Light Fields, SIGGRAPH 2000  Ng: Fourier Slice Photography, SIGGRAPH 2005

15. CPAV 09/10 – First Meeting – 2009/10/23 Light Field Capture with Non-Refractive Modulators  Veeraraghavan et al: Dappled Photography: Mask- Enhanced Cameras for Heterodyned Light Fields and Coded Aperture Refocusing, SIGGRAPH 2007  Lanman et al: Shield Fields: Modeling and Capturing 3D Occluders, SIGGRAPH Asia 2008

16. CPAV 09/10 – First Meeting – 2009/10/23 Multi-View Basics  Laurentini: The Visual Hull Concept for Silhouette-Based Image Understanding, PAMI 1994  Matusik et al.: Image-Based Visual Hulls, SIGGRAPH 2000

17. CPAV 09/10 – First Meeting – 2009/10/23 Multi-view Stereo for Static and Dynamic Scenes  Furukawa et al., Accurate, Dense, and Robust Multi-view Stereopsis, CVPR 2007  Zitnick et al., High-Quality Video View Interpolation Using a Layered Representation, SIGGRAPH 2004

18. CPAV 09/10 – First Meeting – 2009/10/23 Marker-less Motion Capture  Bregler et al., tracking people with twists and exponential maps, CVPR 1998  Balan et al., detailed human shape and pose from images

19. CPAV 09/10 – First Meeting – 2009/10/23 Marker-less Performance Capture  Vlasic et al., Articulated Mesh Animation from Multi-view Silhouettes, SIGGRAPH 2008  De Aguiar et al., Performance Capture from Sparse Multi-view Video, SIGGRAPH 2008

20. CPAV 09/10 – First Meeting – 2009/10/23 Video Recinematography  Gleicher et al., Re-Cinematography: Improving the Camerawork of Casual Video, ACM TOMCCAP  Feng Liu et al., Content-Preserving Warps for 3D Video Stabilization, SIGGRAPH 2009

21. CPAV 09/10 – First Meeting – 2009/10/23 Reconstruction from Community Photo Collections  Snavely et al., Photo Tourism: Exploring image collections in 3D, SIGGRAPH 2006  Goesele et al., Multi-View Stereo for Community Photo Collections, ICCV 2008

22. CPAV 09/10 – First Meeting – 2009/10/23 Reconstruction with Time-of-Flight Cameras  Fusion of Time-of-Flight Depth and Stereo for High Accuracy Depth Maps (PDF), Jiejie Zhu, Liang Wang, Ruigang Yang and James Davis, CVPR 2008PDFLiang Wang  Hebert et al., 3d measurements from imaging laser radars: How good are they?, IVC 1992