Digital Photography and Geometry Capture

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Required Reading:

• Raffi Khatchadourian. "We Know How You Feel, The New Yorker, January 19, 2015. The New Yorker
• N. Snavely, S.M. Seitz, and R. Szeliski, “Photo Tourism: Exploring Photo Collections in 3D,” ACM Trans. Graphics, July 2006, pp. 835-846. ACM.

Recommended Reading

• Burkhard Bilger. "Auto Correct," The New Yorker, November 25, 2013. The New Yorker.

References:

• Ivan E. Sutherland. “Three-Dimensional Data Input by Tablet,” Proceeding of the IEEE, Vol. 62, no. 4, April 1974. IEEE.
• Joe Palca. “The Largest Digital Camera in the World Takes Shape,” November 17, 2017. npr.org.
• Florian Kainz. “Experimental Nighttime Photography with Nexus and Pixel,” April 25, 2017. Google Research Blog.
• James Watkins. “The Future of Advertising Starts With Your Face.” February 20, 2017. OZY.
• Lars Rehm. “Next Level: iPhone 7 Plus Review.” November 7, 2016.  DPreview.com.
• Marc Levoy and Pat Hanrahan. “Light Field Rendering”. ACM SIGGRAPH 1996.
• Steven Gortler, Radek Grzeszczuk, Richard Szeliski, and Michael F. Cohen. “The Lumigraph.” ACM 1996.
• Autodesk ReMake: Capture Reality in HD3D (Video at top of page). View the video here.
• S. Agarwal et al., "Building Rome in a Day," Proc. 12th IEEE Int'l Conf. Computer Vision (ICCV 09), 2009;ICCV
• T.J. Diaz. “Lights, Drones… Action.” IEEE Spectrum. July 2015. IEEE Spectrum.
• Stephen Shankland. “Canon’s 250-megapixel sensor powers eagle-eyed camera.” CNet.
• “Make 3D Floorplans with your phone.” MagicPlan.
• Rachel Courtland. "Sony Creates Curved CMOS Sensors that Mimic the Eye," IEEE Spectrum, June 12, 2014. IEEE
• Edward C. Baig. "For Camera Geeks, Nokia Lumia 1020 phone is a Snap," Indystar.com, July 29, 2013.Indystar.com
• "Digital Camera Market Shrinks 7.5%," SFGate.com, September 19, 2010. SFGate.com
• Alexander Borst and Johannes Plett. "Seeing the World Through an Insect's Eyes," Nature, May 2013.Nature
• Jeremy Hsu. "Insect-Eye Camera Offers Wide-Angle Vision for Tiny Drones," IEEE Spectrum, May 1, 2013.IEEE
• The Bayer Sensor Strategy, Red Digital Cinema Professional, December 5, 2012. Red Digital
• Richard Grech. "Say Cheese: Duke University to Make Gigapixel Camera Available to Public via Kickstarter," digitaltrends.com, May 27, 2013. digitaltrends.com
• Brad Molen. "Nokia Officially Announces the Lumia 1020: 41 MP camera, OIS, six lenses," Engadget, July 11, 2013. Engadget
• Josh Ong. "Smartphone Camera Shootout: Lumia 1020, iPhone 5s, G2 and Moto X," The Next Web, September 13, 2013. The Next Web
• "Nokia Launches 41MP Camera Smartphone in India," Times of India, September 26, 2013. Times of India
• Dave Altavilla. "Nokia Lumia 1020 Video and Photo Shoot Preview," HotHardWare, July 29, 2013.HotHardWare
• Steve Lohr. "A Start-Up's Camera Lets you Take Shots First and Focus Later," The New York Times, June 21, 2011. The New York Times
• NPR. October 11, 2009 broadcast. "Frankencamera': A Giant Leap for Digital Photos? NPR
• David Orenstein-Stanford. July 22, 2010. "Free "Frankencamera" download for NokiaN900." Futurity.org.Futurity.org
• N. Snavely, S.M. Seitz, and R. Szeliski, "Photo Tourism: Exploring Photo Collections in 3D," ACM Trans. Graphics, July 2006, pp. 835-846.
• Lippman, A. 1980. Movie-maps: An application of the optical videodisc to computer graphics. In Proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (Seattle, Washington, United States, July 14-18, 1980). SIGGRAPH '80. ACM, New York, NY, 32-42. ACM
• Debevec, P. E., Taylor, C. J., and Malik, J. 1996. Modeling and rendering architecture from photographs: a hybrid geometry- and image-based approach. In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and interactive Techniques SIGGRAPH '96. ACM, New York, NY, 11-20. ACM
• Stephen Shankland. September 23, 2010. "High-end Pentax 645D camera heads to Europe," CNET News,CNET

Advanced Digital Photography and Geometry Capture References:

• Paul E. Debevec, Camillo J. Taylor, and Jitendra Malik. “Modeling and Rendering Architecture from Photographs: A hybrid geometry- and image-bsed approach.” SIGGRAPH. 1996.
• Sam Grobart.  “The Future of Cameras, but Not yet,” The New York Times, March 1, 2012.  NY Times.
• Jody Duncan.  “The Unusual Birth of Benjamin Button, Cinefex, January 2009.
• Gautam Naik.  “Next Cameras Come Into View,” The Wall Street Journal, June 21, 2012. The Wall Street Journal.
• CMOS image sensors keep pushing CCDs out of the picture.  Solid State Technology, February 13, 2012. Solid State Technology.
• Mova.  CONTOUR makes volumetric cinematography a reality. Mova.com.
• Dean Takahashi.  “Mova moving closer to reality with images,” San Jose Mercury News, August 14, 2006. San Jose Mercury News. 
• Frank Moldstad.  “SIGGRAPH:  Markerless Motion Capture, MAC Animationrpo, digitalmedianet.com, August 2, 2006.  Digital Media Net.
• Mova.  White Paper, Volumetric Cinematography: The World No Longer Flat, October 25, 2006.  Mova.
• Kim Zetter.  “TED: The Magic of Benjamin Button,” Wired.com, February 5, 2009.  Wired. 
• “Mova’s new Contour ‘reality capture’ system debuts at SIGGRAPH, “ CinemaTech, July 31, 2006.   CinemaTech.
• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” Cinefex, #116, January 2009.

Computational Photography References:

• Gortler, Steven J. et al. “The Lumigraph.” SIGGRAPH ’96 Proceedings.
•  “How Does the Kinect 2 Compare to the Kinect 1?” Zugara. December 9, 2014.
• Geoffrey A. Fowler.  “Meet the Camera That Focuses on Everything,” The Wall Street Journal, July 31, 2014.   
• Douglas Lanman and David Luebke.  “Near-Eye Light Field Displays,” NVIDIA Research, July 2013.     
• Anne Ju.  “New image sensors could lead to focusing photos after they’re taken,” Chronicle On Line, April 2, 2012. 
• Wikipedia.com – Computational Photography.
• Levin, A. , Fergus, R., Durand, F., Freeman, B. (2007) " Image and Depth from a Conventional Camera with a Coded Aperture", ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH)
• Marc Levoy and Pat Hanrahan.  “Light Field Rendering,” ACM SIGGRAPH’96, July 1996.             
• Ren Ng, Marc Levoy, Mathieu Bredif, Gene Duval, Mark Horowitz, Pat Hanrahan.  “Light Field Photography with a Hand-held Plenoptic Camera, Stanford Tech Report CTSR 2005-02. 
• David Orenstein. “Open-source camera could revolutionize digital photography,” Stanford Report, Aug. 31, 2009.
• John Wallace.  “Cornell Researchers Invent Alternate Approach to Lytro’s “Light-Field” Camera Teachnology,” LaserFocus World, April 2012.           
• Mary Beth Griggs.  “The Lytro Light-Field Camera:  How It Works,” Popular Mechanics, July 12, 2011.  Wilburn, B., Joshi, N., Vaish, V., Talvala, E.-V., Antunez, E., Barth, A., Adams, A., Horowitz, M., Levoy, M. (2005). "High Performance Imaging Using Large Camera Arrays", ACM Trans. on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), Vol 24, No 3, pp. 765-776.

3D Geometry Capture References:

• Gautam Naik.  “Nobels Given for Finding ‘Inner GPS’”, The Wall Street Journal, October 7, 2014. 
• Robert Lee Hotz.  “Imaging Innovators Win Nobel Prize,” The Wall Street Journal, October 9, 2014.        
• Patently Apple.  Take a Peek at a Few Key PrimeSense Patents that Apple Gained, December 7, 2013.     
• Steve Lohr.  “Kinect as the Next-Generation Mouse,” The New York Times, February 28, 2011. 
• Don Clark, Rolfe Winkler.  “Google Testing Smartphone 3D-Vision Technology, Wall Street Journal, February 20, 2014.
• Michael Gorman.  “Leap Motion Gesture Control Technology Hands-on,” Engadget.com, May 25, 2012. 
• Greg Borenstein.  Making Things See:  3D vision with Kinect, Processing, Arduino, and MakerBot.  2012.