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Prescription

Image-based graphics brings together the power visual media content to produce vivid, compelling, and meaningful computer graphics. This course studies ways of manipulating and combining images and videos, including image filtering, image manipulation, and video processing.

Course learning objectives

Students who pass this course should be able to:

1. Describe and demonstrate through implementation in software an understanding of the fundamentals of image representation, colour models, pixel-level manipulation algorithms and filtering-based image processing techniques.
2. Describe and demonstrate through implementation in software an understanding of popular image content manipulation methods like image synthesis, seamless image composition and content-aware resizing.
3. Describe and demonstrate through implementation in software an understanding of computational photography technology and advanced imaging techniques, like HDR imaging and light field cameras.
4. Describe and demonstrate through implementation in software an understanding of the fundamentals of feature matching and image warping, and how to perform video enhancement like stabilization. Be able to implement image warping and alignments and a straightforward video stabilizer.

Course content

This course is designed for in-person study, and students are strongly recommended to attend lectures, tutorials and labs on campus. In particular, some assessment items or practical hands-on labs will require in-person attendance, although exceptions can be made under special circumstances.

Queries about any such exceptions can be sent to remote-enrolments@ecs.vuw.ac.nz.