Models of Visual Appearance for Analyzing and Editing Images and Videos
Contributors: Pfister, Hanspeter; Gortler, Steven; Zickler, Todd
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Description: The visual appearance of an image is a complex function of factors such as scene geometry, material reflectances and textures, illumination, and the properties of the camera used to capture the image. Understanding how these factors interact to produce an image is a fundamental problem in computer vision and graphics. This dissertation examines two aspects of this problem: models of visual appearance that allow us to recover scene properties from images and videos, and tools that allow users to manipulate visual appearance in images and videos in intuitive ways. In particular, we look at these problems in three different applications.
Notes: Keywords: illumination, image analysis, image and video compositing, image enhancement, photometric stereo, visual appearance.

Thesis Ph.D. Harvard University 2012