January 24, 2012, SPIE, Electronic Imaging Conference, Burlingame, CA—William Freeman from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology talked about computational photography. Today’s digital cameras have only replaced the imaging system, using a semiconductor imager versus film. Most of the camera functions are still analog. In computational photography the user can modify any or all of the [...]

 November 3, 2011, International Gaming Innovation Conference, Orange, CA–Wolfgang Engel from Confetti Special Effects described the techniques for managing cinematic- quality images on mobile platforms. The biggest challenges for mobile platforms are the gamma corrections and high dynamic range rendering for high definition images. These capabilities are already available in consoles and PCs with advanced [...]