Imaging DNA - Topic: Should a class like this be a part of the photography student's education? http://www.imagingdna.com/?page_id=384/course-information/should-a-class-like-this-be-a-part-of-the-photography-students-education/ Simple:Press Forum Version 4.2.3 admin on Should a class like this be a part of the photography student's education? http://www.imagingdna.com/?page_id=384/course-information/should-a-class-like-this-be-a-part-of-the-photography-students-education/#p75 Discussion of Pedagogy, Curriculum, Assignments http://www.imagingdna.com/?page_id=384/course-information/should-a-class-like-this-be-a-part-of-the-photography-students-education/#p75 I am constantly looking at technologies and their application. I also look at teaching philosophies and courses. I came across the following overview of a computational photography course and thought that this would make a great foundation for an undergraduate "state  of the art" of photography course -- less any calculus that the original course involves.

 

Overview

The ubiquity of digital cameras and the internet, coupled with advances in computer vision and graphics, are bringing about a qualitative change in the way photographs can be captured, manipulated, and organized. Indeed, even our traditional concepts of a "camera" and a "photo" are now being challenged by newer, more flexible alternatives in which computation plays a much more central role.

In this seminar course will we will review recent work that tightly integrates computation, sensing, optics, and/or the internet in order to enhance the photography experience. The course will cover four general topics:

  • Internet photography: processing and interacting with web-based photo collections (e.g., 3D reconstruction, photo-tourism, recognition)
  • Photo reconstruction and restoration: inpainting, matting, blending, motion deblurring, denoising, etc
  • Mathematical models of light and light transport
  • Advanced photography systems & techniques: high-dynamic range photography, panoramic imaging, computational illumination, computational optics, novel camera designs
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