Seminar: Perception (Ritschel/Reinhard/Myszkowski)

Applied Perception (Seminar, Winter Semester 2012/2013)

Tobias Ritschel Erik Reinhard Karol Myszkowski

As computer graphics is producing images and videos that are ultimately perceived by a human, its mandatory to account for how the human visual system (HVS) is processing this information. The HVS is complex, exhibiting many non-linearities as well as feedback and is only partially understood. While this poses a challenge, it can also be seen as an opportunity which can be exploited in image compression, watermarking, denoising, enhancement, upsampling, etc. Computational models which can predict the human response to the distortion of visual content are important when this opportunity is taken. To this end, our seminar covers computational application of perceptual models of

Brightness and contrast perception
Color perception
Depth understanding
Material perception and
Motion processing.

The target audience are students in computer science or related fields. This seminar is focused on working with and understanding of scientific texts from computer science (graphics, vision) as well as psychology and physiology.

First date: Everybody is assigned one topic / paper
Starting with the second date: Participants present their topic, we discuss
After the talk series: All participants hand in a 2-page summary of their topic (LaTeX template)

The seminar language is English.

Time:	Monday, 16:00-18:00
First seminar:	Monday, 22. 10. 2012
Room:	Building E1.4 (Max-Planck-Institut), Room 0.19
Registration:	Please subscribe to this seminar by sending an email with your name, matriculation number, current semester, and email address to Tobias Ritschel.
HISPOS:	Course No. 67435

Additional information for participants will be made available on this website once the seminar has started. It is accessible only from within the university or using your account.