1. Signal and Image Processing with Generative Models
Patrick Wolfe Todd Zickler
DEAS, Harvard University

2. General Framework Source System “Raw Signal” Source Model System Model
Enhanced Signal
Inference Engine
Wolfe/Zickler 2005

3. General Framework Zickler Wolfe Source Model System Model
Modeling visual phenomena
Computer vision
Source Model
System Model
Inference Engine
Wolfe
Some stuff here
Some stuff here, too
Wolfe/Zickler 2005

4. Zickler Research Appearance Capture Vision Beyond Lambert “vision”
SHAPE
REFLECTANCE
“vision”
Wolfe/Zickler 2005

5. Modeling Visual Phenomena
Example 1: Helmholtz Stereopsis
[Helmholtz 1925]
Wolfe/Zickler 2005

6. Modeling Visual Phenomena
Example 1: Helmholtz Stereopsis
Wolfe/Zickler 2005

7. Modeling Visual Phenomena
Example 2: SUV Color Space
DIFFUSE = +
SPECULAR
[Shafer, 1985]
Wolfe/Zickler 2005

8. Modeling Visual Phenomena
Example 2: SUV Color Space R B G S U V
Wolfe/Zickler 2005

9. General Framework Zickler Wolfe Source Model System Model
Modeling visual phenomena
Computer vision
Source Model
System Model
Inference Engine
Wolfe
Some stuff here
Some stuff here, too
Wolfe/Zickler 2005

10. Wolfe Research
Wolfe/Zickler 2005