We enjoy movies on a daily basis, but are rarely aware of the image processing involved in creating and editing a film. Examples of frequent operations are format conversion, compression, scratch and blotch removal, introducing special effects, motion estimation, camera calibration, segmentation and super-resolution. These techniques are so important that, today, virtually every movie undergoes some digital image processing. Still, some of the fundamental problems remain unsolved, often involving very time-consuming manual labor. The quality standards are also very different -- often far stricter -- than those in most common applications of image processing. This brings significant mathematical and engineering challenges. The goal of this workshop is to have a uniquely interactive setting in which engineers, mathematicians, and artists implicated in film editing, restoration and "post-processing" are assembeled in order to inform and instruct each other as well as discuss possible solutions and directions of research. The workshop will start with a number of tutorials by leaders in the area (from industry and academia) and will be followed by interleaved talks in the interdisciplinary aspects of movie editing and restoration.
| Schedule |
| Monday, February 6
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| 8:15a-9:00a |
Registration and coffee |
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EE/CS 3-176 |
| 9:00a-9:10a |
Welcome to the IMA |
Douglas N. Arnold (University of Minnesota Twin Cities) |
EE/CS 3-180 |
| 9:10a-9:20a |
Opening Remarks |
Guillermo R. Sapiro (University of Minnesota Twin Cities), Lance J. Williams (Applied Minds, Inc.), Andrew Zisserman (University of Oxford) |
EE/CS 3-180 |
| 9:20a-10:20a |
The grammar of storytelling on film survives technology
|
Jay Cassidy (MTI Film, LLC) |
EE/CS 3-180 |
| 10:20a-10:45a |
coffee |
|
EE/CS 3-176 |
| 10:45a-11:45a |
Pushing pixels: From restoration to postproduction
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Anil Kokaram (Trinity College) |
EE/CS 3-180 |
| 11:45a-1:30p |
lunch |
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| 1:30p-2:30p |
The evolution of film editing technique and its implications to the
parsing and summarization of motion pictures
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John W. Mateer (University of York) |
EE/CS 3-180 |
| 2:30p-3:00p |
Second Chances
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EE/CS 3-180 |
| 3:10p-3:15p |
Group photos |
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| 3:15p-4:30p |
Poster Session/Reception
Lind Hall 400
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| Tuesday, February 7
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| 8:45a-9:00a |
coffee |
|
EE/CS 3-176 |
| 9:00a-10:00a |
3D models from image sequences
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Andrew Fitzgibbon (Microsoft Research) |
EE/CS 3-180 |
| 10:00a-10:30a |
coffee |
|
EE/CS 3-176 |
| 10:30a-11:30a |
Computer vision success stories in visual media production : Camera
tracking and motion capture
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David Capel (2d3 Limited) |
EE/CS 3-180 |
| 11:30a-1:30p |
lunch |
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| 1:30p-2:30p |
Video-based rendering
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Richard Szeliski (Microsoft Research) |
EE/CS 3-180 |
| 2:30p-3:00p |
Second Chances
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EE/CS 3-180 |
| Wednesday, February 8
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| 8:45a-9:00a |
coffee |
|
EE/CS 3-176 |
| 9:00a-10:00a |
Image and video inpainting
|
Guillermo R. Sapiro (University of Minnesota Twin Cities) |
EE/CS 3-180 |
| 10:00a-10:30a |
coffee |
|
EE/CS 3-176 |
| 10:30a-11:30a |
"But you said it was 99% accurate! Why is there a defect in the first frame?"
Gentle techniques for using mathematics in motion picture processes to marry film and digital
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Daniel Rosen (Warner Bros.) |
EE/CS 3-180 |
| 11:30a-1:30p |
lunch |
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| 1:30p-2:30p |
Techniques and rationale for motion picture restoration
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Kevin Manbeck (MTI Film, LLC) |
EE/CS 3-180 |
| 2:30p-3:00p |
Restoration revisited |
Jay Cassidy (MTI Film, LLC) |
EE/CS 3-180 |
| 3:00p-3:30p |
Second Chances |
|
EE/CS 3-180 |
| 3:45p-5:00p |
Poster Session |
|
Lind Hall 400 |
| 7:00p-8:00p |
Math Matters: IMA Public Lecture - Artful mathematics
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Daniel Rockmore (Dartmouth College) |
Willey Hall 125 |
| Thursday, February 9
|
| 8:45a-9:00a |
coffee |
|
EE/CS 3-176 |
| 9:00a-10:00a |
Retrieving video of people and places
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Andrew Zisserman (University of Oxford) |
EE/CS 3-180 |
| 10:00a-10:30a |
coffee |
|
EE/CS 3-176 |
| 10:30a-11:30a |
Tracking planes in images: Applications in post-production
|
Philip McLauchlan (Imagineer Systems Limited) |
EE/CS 3-180 |
| 11:30a-1:30p |
lunch |
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| 12:00p-1:00p |
Mathematics: Maker and muse for modern art
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Daniel Rockmore (Dartmouth College) |
Weisman Art Museum |
| 1:30p-2:30p |
Computer vision in movie production: problems and expectations
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Eugene Vendrovsky (Rhythm & Hues Studios, Inc.) |
EE/CS 3-180 |
| 2:45p-3:15p |
Disney human face project |
Lance J. Williams (Applied Minds, Inc.) |
EE/CS 3-180 |
| 3:15p-4:30p |
Challenging shots: Demo your problem and discuss it with us
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Pierre Jasmin (RE:Vision Effects, Inc.) |
EE/CS 3-180 |
| 6:00p-7:30p |
workshop dinner |
|
Gardens of Salonica |
| Friday, February 10
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| 8:45a-9:00a |
coffee |
|
EE/CS 3-176 |
| 9:00a-10:00a |
Movie restoration methods
|
Toni Buades (University of the Balearic Islands (Illes Balears)) |
EE/CS 3-180 |
| 10:00a-10:30a |
coffee |
|
EE/CS 3-176 |
| 10:30a-11:30a |
Denoising archival films using a field-of-experts model of
film grain and natural image statistics
|
Michael Black (Brown University) |
EE/CS 3-180 |
| 11:30a-12:00p |
Second Chances |
|
EE/CS 3-180 |
| NAME | DEPARTMENT | AFFILIATION |
|---|
| Iman Aganj | | University of Minnesota |
| Andres Almansa | Centro de Calculo | University of Barcelona |
| Jung_Ha An | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Pablo Arias | Instituto de Ingenieria Electrica | University of the Republic |
| Douglas Arnold | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Donald Aronson | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Evgeniy Bart | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Sebastiano Battiato | Department of Mathematics and Informatics | Università di Catania |
| Marcelo Bertalmío | Departamento de Tecnologías de la Información i les Comunicaciones | Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
| Bernard Besserer | Laboratoire Informatique, Image, Interaction | Université de La Rochelle |
| Michael Black | Department of Computer Science | Brown University |
| Francisco Blanco-Silva | Department of Mathematics | Purdue University |
| Antoni Buades | Departament de Matematiques I Informatica | University of the Balearic Islands (Illes Balears) |
| David Capel | | 2d3 Limited |
| Jay Cassidy | Department of Science and Technology | MTI Film, LLC |
| Qian-Yong Chen | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Barry Cipra | | NONE |
| Steven Damelin | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | Georgia Southern University |
| Julie Delon | LTCI | France Telecom R&D, LLC |
| Brian DiDonna | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Andrew Fitzgibbon | Department of Engineering Science | Microsoft Research |
| Harald Grossauer | Department of Computer Science | Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck |
| Changfeng Gui | Department of Mathematics | University of Connecticut |
| Jooyoung Hahn | Division of Applied Mathematics | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) |
| Gloria Haro Ortega | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Sheryl Hemkin | Department of Chemistry | Kenyon College |
| Xiang Huang | Department of Mathematics | University of Connecticut |
| Pierre Jasmin | | RE:Vision Effects, Inc. |
| Sookyung Joo | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Laurent Joyeux | Institute for Information Systems and Information Management | Joanneum Research |
| Sung Ha Kang | Department of Mathematics | University of Kentucky |
| Gisela Klette | Department of Computer Science | University of Auckland |
| Reinhard Klette | Department of Computer Science | University of Auckland |
| Anil Kokaram | Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering | Trinity College |
| Shin Kurokawa | | Maximum Output Designs, Inc. |
| Matthias Kurzke | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Song-Hwa Kwon | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Louis Laborelli | | Institut National de l'Audiovisuel |
| Chang-Ock Lee | Department of Mathematical Sciences | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) |
| Nam-Yong Lee | School of Computer Aided Science | Inje University |
| Stacey Levine | Department of Mathematics and Computer Science | Duquesne University |
| Debra Lewis | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Hstau Liao | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Peter Litwinowicz | | RE:Vision Effects, Inc. |
| Bradley Lucier | Department of Mathematics | Purdue University |
| Lucia Maddalena | Institute for High-Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR) | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) |
| Alison Malcolm | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Kevin Manbeck | Department of Science and Technology | MTI Film, LLC |
| John Mateer | Department of Electronics | University of York |
| Philip McLauchlan | | Imagineer Systems Limited |
| Mila Nikolova | Centre de Mathematiques et leurs Applications(CMLA) | École Normale Supérieure de Cachan |
| Peter Olver | School of Mathematics | University of Minnesota |
| Alvaro Pardo | The Institute of Electrical Engineering | University of the Republic |
| Gregory Randall | Instituto de Ingenieria Electrica | University of the Republic |
| Walter Richardson | Department of Mathematical Sciences | University of Texas |
| Alessandro Rizzi | Dipartimento di Informatica e Comunicazione | Università di Milano |
| Daniel Rosen | | Warner Bros. |
| Fadil Santosa | School of Mathematics | University of Minnesota |
| Guillermo Sapiro | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering | University of Minnesota |
| Arnd Scheel | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Jin Seo | Department of Mathematics, Computational Science and Engineering | Yonsei University |
| Tatiana Soleski | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Rashmi Sundareswara | | University of Minnesota |
| Vladimir Sverak | School of Mathematics | University of Minnesota |
| Richard Szeliski | Vision Technology Group | Microsoft Research |
| Carl Toews | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Eugene Vendrovsky | | Rhythm & Hues Studios, Inc. |
| Jingyue Wang | Department of Mathematics | Purdue University |
| Xiaoming Wang | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Martin Welk | Mathematical Image Analysis Group | Universität des Saarlandes |
| Michael Werman | Institute of Computer Science | Hebrew University |
| Lance Williams | | Applied Minds, Inc. |
| Todd Wittman | School of Mathematics | University of Minnesota |
| Ofer Zeitouni | School of Mathematics | University of Minnesota |
| Andrew Zisserman | Department of Engineering Science | University of Oxford |
