VIZA 665 : Digital Compositing
Spring 2017

Outline
  1. Course Introduction, The Nature of Digital Images, Bitmaps, Greyscale and RGB Color.
  2. Computer Storage of Digital Images, Bitmaps and Pixmaps
  3. General Image Files, PPM File Format.
  4. CRT and LCD Displays: Gamma, and Framebuffers
  5. Color, Additive Color Systems, Subtractive Color Systems, Compositing and Alpha.
  6. Associative Colors, Bluescreening
  7. Global Image Filters, Normalization and Histograms, Histogram Equalization
  8. Convolution Filters, Lowpass and Highpass Filters
  9. Affine transformations, Forward and Inverse Mapping, General Image Warps, Perspective Warps
  10. Sampling/Filtering/Reconstruction Reconstruction and Aliasing Errors, Supersampling, SAT and Mipmaps to Reduce Aliasing Artifacts .
  11. Feature Based Morphs, Separable Scanline Warping Algorithm: Paeth-Tanaka Rotation
  12. High Dynamic Range Imaging
  13. Image Compression. Runlength, LZW, and CLUT Compression