| Kursusnavn (dansk): | Digital Filmbehandling (udbydes ikke i E2001, projekt muligt) |
| Kursusnavn (engelsk): | Digital Post Processing of Cinema Movies. (is not offered in Autumn 2001) |
| Semester: | Efterår 2001 |
| Udbydes under: | cand.it., multimedieteknologi (mmt) |
| Omfang i ECTS: | 7,50 |
| Kursussprog: | Dansk |
| Kursushjemmeside: | https://learnit.itu.dk |
| Min. antal deltagere: | 10 |
| Forventet antal deltagere: | 0 |
| Maks. antal deltagere: | 20 |
| Formelle forudsætninger: | 1.Image analysis (can be followed simultaneously)
2.Basics of programming
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| Læringsmål: | Objectives :
1.The student will gain an overview of the steps involved in post processing of cinema movies, mainly digital post processing.
2.Knowledge of the typical problems, errors and damages encountered
3.Insight into the most common solutions; including how to detect scratches, how to reconstruct missing data using spatial and/or temporal information and tracking of moving objects.
4. The participants will gain some hands-on experience with the software tool called "flint" running on a SGI octane with special hardware to support the large amount of data.
5. The participants will be able to write their own plug-ins so called "sparks" to the "flint" software.
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| Fagligt indhold: | The focus will be on the restoration of damaged film. The damage has occur to the physical film so typical problems are "dirt and sparkle", scratches and noise due to both the photographic process and the decaying materiale itself. The restoration is performed soly on the digitized version of the film.
The participants will work with the the post processing tool "flint" as well as in the matlab programming enviroment. Plug-ins to the "flint" system will be written in C++.
The "Flint" system can also create special effects and more. The ability to write plug-ins can also be used to solve problems in this area but special effects will only be covered superficial in this course.
The "flint" software is a small version of the software "inferno" running on top-end SGI machines for real time handling of movies. An often used resolution is 2000 times 2000 pixels with 24 bits for representing the color in each pixel. The storage used for one frame is 12 Mbytes, with 25 frames per second an hour will take up one Tera bytes (1000GBytes) storage which should be accessible for random real time play. The inferno system can handle this, the small flint cannot. But plug-ins written for flint can be used without changes for inferno. Flint and flame is product from discreet. http://www2.discreet.com/post/
The Copenhagen-based post processing company Digital Film Lab (www.digitalfilmlab.com) has an inferno system and is collaborating with the IT University of Copenhagen. Digital Film Lab is interested in relevant student projects. If projects are relevant and production allow it it will possible to test plug-ins on the inferno system after developing on the flint system.
NOTE that since ITU only has one SGI machine with the necessary equipment the exercises on the SGI will be spread over the week for the participants. You can not expect to have access in normal office hours each week. A booking system will be set up.
The Course is given in collaboration with the course "Advanced digital video editing" at (DKM). A few selected lectures will be offered at both courses and students are encouraged to form four-week project groups with participants form both courses.
Note that "Advanced digital video editing" is offered in Danish and there is no guaranty that these lectures can be offered in English. This should not stop you in taking "Digital Post Processing..." there will be pleanty of content even if you can not follow the cross-course lectures. In case of doubt please contact Ole Fogh Olsen.
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| Læringsaktiviteter: | Project with presentations, hands-on exercises, and a small project |
| Eksamensform og -beskrivelse: | X. experimental examination form (7-scale; external exam), 13-skala, Intern censur Oral examination with grade after approval of exercises and project.
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| Litteratur udover forskningsartikler: | The course book is likely to be "Motion Picture Restoration" by Anil Kokaram.
It will be supplemented with articles and course notes.
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