Hi Siddharth, All three proposals are very cool, but quite more suitable for GIMP than for Blender. For GIMP such filters can well live locally as a plugin. In Blender it means to think in the context of tools and usablity. Where would you add this, and how then have users interact?
-Ton- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ton Roosendaal Blender Foundation [email protected] www.blender.org Blender Institute Entrepotdok 57A 1018AD Amsterdam The Netherlands On 12 Apr, 2013, at 5:25, Siddharth wrote: > Hi, > > I am currently pursuing MS by Research in the field of computer vision and > image processing at IIIT- Hyderabad, India. I am interested in working for > Blender organization this summer in a GSoC project. > > > Some of my own ideas: > > a) *Interactive Poisson Image Blending* > > Image editing tasks concern either global changes (color/intensity > corrections, filters, deformations) or local changes concerned to a > selection. Here we are interested in achieving local changes, ones that are > restricted to a region manually selected (ROI), in a seamless and > effortless manner. The extent of the changes ranges from slight distortions > to complete replacement by novel content. Examples:Inserting objects, Color > Transfer, Feature Exchange, Texture Flattening, Local illumination changes, > etc. > > http://cs.engr.uky.edu/~jacobs/classes/2010_photo/readings/PoissonImageEditing.pdf > > b) *Color2Gray* > > Visually important image features often disappear when color images are > converted to grayscale. This algorithm reduces such losses by attempting to > preserve the salient features of the color image. The Color2Gray results > offer viewers salient information missing from previous grayscale image > creation methods. > > http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~leojia/papers/decolorization_iccp12.pdf > > c) *Domain Transform for Edge-Aware Image Processing > (Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering)* > > The processing involves high-quality edge-preserving filtering of images > (better than bilateral filter). The filter is applied on several image > processing tasks including edge-preserving smoothing, Depth-of-field > effects, stylization, detail enhancement, edge enhancement and pencil/color > pencil sketch. > > http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~eslgastal/DomainTransform/Gastal_Oliveira_SIGGRAPH2011_Domain_Transform.pdf > > What are your views about this? > > Best Regards, > Siddharth > > -- > Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever - > M K Gandhi > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
