6.098 Digital and Computational Photography (U)

L TR 1-2:30, Room 36-155
Professor Fredo Durand, fredo@csail.mit.edu, Room 32-D426
Prereq.: 18.06 and 6.003
3-0-9

This subject qualifies as an Artificial Intelligence and Applications Engineering Concentration subject.

Computational photography is a new field at the convergence of photography, computer vision, image processing, and computer graphics. It leverages the power of digital processing to overcome limitations of traditional photography and it offers unprecedented opportunities for the enhancement and enrichment of visual media. This advanced undergraduate course covers fundamentals and applications of hardware and software techniques, with an emphasis on software methods. The course will emphasize hands-on aspects and the course will culminate into a final project. The goal is to provide students with sufficient backgrounds to implement new solutions to photography challenges and opportunities. Topics include cameras and image formation, image processing and image representations, high-dynamic-range-imaging, human visual perception and color, single view 3D model reconstruction, morphing, data-rich photography, superresolution, image-based rendering. 6 engineering design points