Image Based Modeling and Rendering Links

• IBMR Focus, nice collection of links on image-based modeling and rendering
• Paul's collection of links on image mosaicing
• Paul's collection of links on view interpolation
• Re: Vision Effects, Pierre Jasmin's company, special effects for movie "What Dreams May Come"
• Shlomo Gortler's course on Image Based Rendering
• Timetrack, Dayton Taylor's company (image based rendering, special effects)
• Paul's course 15-862, Rendering, Fall 1995.
• Instructions for joining the Image Based Rendering Mailing List
• 3D Photography course at SIGGRAPH 99 organized by Brian Curless and Steve Seitz
• image registration
  • Huttenlocher's work on Hausdorff Distance
  • Paul Viola's work on Mutual Information
• Panoramic cameras
  • Panoptic Vision, Longmont, CO
• Layered depth images. tech report by Wang and Adelson , Wang's publications,
• nice paper at ICCV 99 on texture synthesis, useful for hole filling: the paper
• Projective Geometry Tutorials:
  • Stan Birchfield: An Intro to Projective Geometry (for computer vision)
  • Dana Scott (CMU Prof.) Mathematica notes from 15-491A: Computational Projective Geometry
• IBMR-Focus: nice index of IBMR links
• CVonline detailed web tutorials on a broad range of topics in computer vision--an excellent resource
• Interested in high-resolution 3D models? Check out two recent projects aimed at scanning Italian statues: Stanford's Digital Michelangelo Project and IBM's Pieta Project.
• Chris McGlone's links:
  • Chris McGlone, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Digital Mapping Lab, Carnegie Mellon University (remote sensing, computer vision, terrain database construction)
  • Data sources:
    • Space Imaging (IKONOS) satellite
    • LANDSAT satellite
    • Pennsylvania GIS data and imagery
    • Microsoft TerraServer (imagery)
    • US Geological Survey
    • National Imagery and Mapping Agency
  • Other cool stuff:
    • National Reconnaissance Office
    • Fed. American Scientists (John Pike)
    • TerraSim, remote sensing company in Pittsburgh (off Craig St.)
• David Johnson's Morphing Page, U. of Utah, nice little morph videos
• Texture Links
  • Xmorphia, see their neat reaction-diffusion videos
  • Greg Turk on reaction-diffusion textures (great pictures)
  • Analysis of Visual Texture, course taught by Carlo Tomasi at Stanford, 1996
  • Andy Witkin on reaction-diffusion textures, (video, paper)
  • Efros-Leung, De Bonet links
  • Visual Models of Morphogenesis, texture on seashells, Univ. of Calgary
  • Columbia-Utrecht texture collection
  • work related to Heeger-Bergen paper
  • Li-Yi Wei, Stanford
  • The above were found mostly with www.google.com: texture analysis synthesis
• Sergey Parilov's image based rendering pages, Russia
• Photogrammetry for Architectural History
• ACM Computer Graphics Special Issue on Applications of Computer Vision to Computer Graphics, November 1999, Vol. 33, No. 4

Paul Heckbert, last modified Sept. 1999