MAS.963 Special Topics: Computational Camera and Photography, Fall 2008
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Raskar, Ramesh
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Special Topics: Computational Camera and Photography
Date Issued
December 2008
Abstract
A computational camera attempts to digitally capture the essence of visual information by exploiting the synergistic combination of task-specific optics, illumination, sensors and processing. In this course we will study this emerging multi-disciplinary field at the intersection of signal processing, applied optics, computer graphics and vision, electronics, art, and online sharing through social networks. If novel cameras can be designed to sample light in radically new ways, then rich and useful forms of visual information may be recorded — beyond those present in traditional photographs. Furthermore, if computational process can be made aware of these novel imaging models, them the scene can be analyzed in higher dimensions and novel aesthetic renderings of the visual information can be synthesized. We will discuss and play with thermal cameras, multi-spectral cameras, high-speed, and 3D range-sensing cameras and camera arrays. We will learn about opportunities in scientific and medical imaging, mobile-phone based photography, camera for HCI and sensors mimicking animal eyes. We will learn about the complete camera pipeline. In several hands-on projects we will build physical imaging prototypes and understand how each stage of the imaging process can be manipulated.
Subjects
signal processing; applied optics; Computer graphics; computer vision; online photo; digital photography; digital imaging; visual art image processing
image sensor
image reconstruction
medical imaging
mblog
biomimetics
lens
spectrum
multi-spectral
3D imaging
thermal imaging
high-speed imaging
polarization
MIT Department
Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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