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Computational Photography Introduction
Jinxiang Chai
Computer Science and Engineering
Texas A&M University
Computational Photography
• Staff - Prof: Jinxiang Chai, Texas A&M University
- office hours: TR: 11:00-11:50 AM
- or by appointments
• Web Page- http://faculty.cs.tamu.edu/jchai/spring2011/cp
Textbooks
• Mainly lecture notes, papers and online documents
• Suggested readings: Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications
Today
• Introductions
• Why Computational Photography?
• Overview of the course
A bit about me
• Jinxiang Chai- Ph.D in School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
- Joined Texas A&M Univ. in 2006
• Research- Animation, Graphics and Vision
VideoMocap
• Goal: capture human motion from single-camera video streams
Animation Control and Synthesis
• Goal: a novice user can animate and control a highly realistic human character quickly and easily
A super-brief History of Artand its futile Search for Realism