1st Edition

Computational Photography Methods and Applications

Edited By Rastislav Lukac Copyright 2011
564 Pages 296 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

564 Pages 296 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

Computational photography refers broadly to imaging techniques that enhance or extend the capabilities of digital photography. This new and rapidly developing research field has evolved from computer vision, image processing, computer graphics and applied optics—and numerous commercial products capitalizing on its principles have already appeared in diverse market applications, due to the gradual... Read more

Single Capture Image Fusion, J.E. Adams, Jr., J.F. Hamilton, Jr., M. Kumar, E.O. Morales, R. Palum, and B.H. Pillman

Single Capture Image Fusion with Motion Consideration, J.E. Adams, Jr., A. Deever, J.F. Hamilton, Jr., M. Kumar, R. Palum, and B.H. Pillman

Lossless Compression of Bayer Color Filter Array Images. K.-H. Chung and Y.-H. Chan

Color Restoration and Enhancement in the Compressed Domain, J. Mukherjee and S.K. Mitra

Principal Component Analysis-Based Denoising of Color Filter Array Images, R. Lukac and L. Zhang

Regularization-Based Color Image Demosaicking, D. Menon and G. Calvagno

Super-Resolution Imaging, B.K. Gunturk

Image Deblurring Using Multi-Exposed Images, S.-W. Jung and S.-J. Ko

Color High Dynamic Range Imaging: Algorithms for Acquisition and Display, O. Pirinen, A. Foi, and A. Gotchev

High Dynamic Range Imaging for Dynamic Scenes, C. Loscos and K. Jacobs

Shadow Detection in Digital Images and Videos, C. Benedek and T. Sziranyi

Document Image Rectification Using Single-View or Two-View Camera Input, H. Il Koo and N. Ik Cho

Bilateral Filter: Theory and Applications, B.K. Gunturk

Painterly Rendering, G. Papari and N. Petkov

Machine Learning Methods for Automatic Image Colorization, G. Charpiat, I. Bezrukov, M. Hofmann, Y. Altun, and B. Scholkopf

Machine Learning for Digital Face Beautification, G. Dror

High-Quality Light Field Acquisition and Processing, C.-K. Liang and H.H. Chen

Dynamic View Synthesis with an Array of Cameras, R. Yang, H. Wang, and C. Zhang

Biography

Dr. Rastislav Lukac is an accomplished digital imaging scientist with more than 10 years of advanced experience in conducting scholarly and applied research. In his professional career, he has held appointments at various leading organizations and research institutions, including the University of Toronto, Canada; the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands; the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and Epson Canada Ltd., Toronto. Since August 2009, he has been a senior digital imaging scientist – image processing manager at Foveon, Inc./Sigma Corp., San Jose, California, USA. He has authored and contributed to numerous books and textbooks, and he has published more than 200 scholarly research papers in the areas of digital camera image processing, color image and video processing, multimedia security, and microarray image processing. He is also author of more than 25 patent-pending inventions in the areas of digital color imaging and pattern recognition, and he has been cited more than 650 times in peer-review journals covered by the Science Citation Index (SCI). Among his many accolades, he was the recipient of the 2003 North Atlantic Treaty Organization / National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NATO/NSERC) Science Award, and he received the Most Cited Paper Award for the Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation for the years 2005–2007. He also authored the number one article in the ScienceDirect Top 25 Hottest Articles in Signal Processing for April–June 2008.

... presents state-of-the-art and recent research trends in image processing technology and computational photography, and the fundamentals of the associated theory and methods, and outlines the foundations on which solutions for many interesting and challenging computational imaging problems rest. … recommended for researchers involved in computational image processing techniques or for graduate-level students in optics or computational photography.
—IEEE ELECTRICAL INSULATION, SEPT/OCT 2011, VOL 27, # 5