15-463 Project 1: Images of the Russian Empire -- colorizing the Prokudin-Gorskii photo collection

Jason Israel (jaisrael)

For this project, the purpose was to take three grayscale images, each representing one color channel, and align them to produce a color image.

My approach did not deviate far from what was recommended in the project description. I split the large image in thirds, and aligned them using normalized cross-correlation. For the larger images, I used an image pyramid.

My biggest issue with this project is that I did not know how to use matlab very well. It took me a while to learn how to do things like debugging. I had very few errors with the actual images. When there were inaccuracies, I was usually able to fix them by tweaking some of the bounds to allow for more error.