Advanced Digital Photography and Geometry Capture

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Required Reading:

• None

Recommeded Reading:

• Night Sight — Seeing in the Dark on Pixel Phones. November, 2018. Google AI Blog
• Here's How Night Sight on the Google Pixel 3 Works. April, 2019. Android Authority
• "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,"Cinefex, #116, January 2009.
• We Know How You Feel. Raffi Khatchadourian. The New Yorker. January, 2015. The New Yorker.
• Alfred NG. “iPhone X’s Face ID challenge: Getting you to trust it,” September 14, 2017. Cnet.
• Marc Levoy, Pat Hanrahan (1996). “Light field rendering”, Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM Press, pp. 31-42.
• Gortler, S., Grzeszczuk, R., Szeliski, R., Cohen, M. (1996). “The lumigraph”, Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM Press, pp. 43-54.
• David Cardinal. “How Apple’s iPhone X TrueDepth Camera Works”, September 14, 2017. ExtremeTech.

References:

• Rishi Sanyal. “Lytro CEO confirms exit from consumer photography business, focus on VR”, April 5, 2016. Dpreview.com.
• “Some animals ‘see’ the world through oddball eyes.” May 18, 2016. Science News.
• “Tiny New Compound Camera is Built Like a Bug’s Eye.” May 1, 2013. Wired Magazine.
• Mikey Campbell. “Future iPhones may unlock, hide messages based on a user’s face.” December 3, 2015. Appleinsider.
• Sameer Agarwal, Yasutaka Furukawa, Noah Snavely, Brian Curless, Steve M. Seitz, Richard Szeliski. “Reconstructing Rome”, IEEE Computer, June 2010
• John R. Quan. "The light-Sensing Technology Carmakers Are Clamoring For.” May 25, 2017. The New York Times.
• Drafomir Anguelov, Carole Dulong, Daniel Filip, Christian Frueh, Stepheane Lafon, Richard Lyon, Abhijit Ogale, Luc Vincent, Josh Weaver. “Google Street View: Capturing The World At Street Level,” IEEE Computer, June 2010.
• Christopher V. Poulton and Michael R. Watts. “MIT and DARPA Pack Lidar Sensor Onto Single Chip.” August 4, 2016. IEEE Spectrum.
• Tim Moynihan. “Canon’s 5D Mark IV is Here, With 4K Capability and Improved Autofocus.” August 27, 2016. Wired Magazine.
• Matterport home page.
• Molnar Group, “Depth Fields: Extending Light Field Techniques to Time-of-Flight Imaging.” Molnargroup.ece.cornell.
• Tim Moynihan. “A Chopper Just Projected Video Onto A Giant Screen Towed By Another Chopper: Breaking the World Record for Largest Aerial Projection Screen.” The Scene. August 28, 2016. Wired Magazine.
• "Aware2 Multiscale Gigapixel Camera." Duke University. DSP.
• “Lytro announces world’s first light field VR video camera”. Will Mason. UploadVR. November 5, 2015.
• “Google’s Autonomous Vehicle,” weebly.com.
• Ryan Whitman. “How Google’s Self-driving Cars Detect and Avoid Obstacles,” September 8, 2014. Extreme Tech.
• Nick Statt. “Matterport Breathes Life into Fully Immersive 3D Models,” Cnet.
• SurvTech Solutions. Time of Flight.
• Raytrix. Light Field Camera Systems.
• Molnar Group. Chip-scale 3-D Imaging.
• Achuta Kadambi, Vage Taamazyan, Boxin Shi,and Ramesh Raskar, “Polarized 3D: High-Quality Depth Sensing with Polarization Cues.” MIT.
• Tom Geller. How Do You Feel? Your computer knows. Communications of the ACM. January 2014.Communications of the ACM.
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• R.W. Picard. Affective Computing. MIT Media Laboratory Perceptual Computing Section Technical Report #321, 1995. MIT.
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• Douglas Lanman and David Luebke. "Near-Eye Light Field Displays," NVIDIA Research, July 2013. Nvidia.
• Anne Ju. "New image sensors could lead to focusing photos after they're taken," Chronicle On Line, April 2, 2012. Chronicle online
• Sam Grobart. "The Future of Cameras, but Not yet," The New York Times, March 1, 2012. The New York 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. SST
• Mova. CONTOUR makes volumetric cinematography a reality. Mova
• 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. Digitalmedianet.com
• 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. Ted
• "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.