Hall of Fame: INF555 Projects (2009, X2007)

Supervisor: Frank NIELSEN (Ecole Polytechnique, LIX) | Visit the course home page INF555: Fundamentals of 3D

13 M1 students.

Projects at glance: Image dehazing, video stippling, texture shop, face hallucination, automatic photo pop-up, out-of-bound photography, graffiti removal, patchmatch, auto-collage

Single Image Dehazing (Jiaqing WANG)
(verbatim) "...we are able to observe that Dark Channel Prior Method is simpler while more efficient. This proves that the best solution is always a simple and universal solution without adding mathematical "patches" for every special case..."
- Raanan Fattal, Single Image Dehazing, SIGGRAPH 2008. http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~raananf/. Technique: Independent Component Analysis (ICA).
- Kaiming He, Single Image Haze Removal using Dark Channel Prior, CVPR 2009. http://personal.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/~hkm007/ Technique: Dark Channel Prior.
Application:
Video stippling (Thomas HOUYT, Francois CHARBONNIER in C++, Laurent SIGAL)
Capacity-constrained point distribution
Michael Balzer, Thomas Schlomer, and Oliver Deussen. Capacity-constrained point distributions: a variant of Lloyd’s method. ACM Trans. Graph., 28(3):1–8, 2009.
StipplingDuffy.avi
Textureshop: Texture Synthesis as a Photograph Editing Tool (Alexandra PETITJEAN, Francois SERRE)
Techniques: shape-from-shading (+segmentation) and texture synthesis (+graph cut)

Sphere, normal from shape from shading, segmented patches of normals, texture synthesis
Face Hallucination (Alexandre BOULC'H) Ce Liu, Heung-Yeung Shum and William T.Freeman, "Face Hallucination: Theory and Practice" (IJCV 2007) http://people.csail.mit.edu/celiu/FaceHallucination/fh.html
Structural image editing (PatchMatch) (Benoit CRESPIN, Maxime BRENON)
Connelly Barnes, Eli Shechtman, Adam Finkelstein, and Dan B Goldman. Patch- Match : A randomized correspondence algorithm for structural image editing. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 28(3), August 2009. Up-scaling
Automatic Photo Pop Up (Bertrand DECOSTER)
Technique: Adaboost, billboarding
SIGGRAPH 2001.
Out of bound photography (Charles MIGLIETTI)
Techniques: segmentation, homography, shadow, UIs.
Visual summary of Image Collections (Miguel SARABIA DEL CASTILLO)
Carsten Rother, Lucas Bordeaux, Youssef Hamadi, and Andrew Blake. Autocollage. ACM Trans. Graph., 25(3):847{852, 2006.
Graffiti removal (Vincent BARRIELLE)
Poisson image editing