This web page provides some teaching materials and information for students willing to work on a project with me.
Courses
In 2021/2022 I am responsible for teaching the following courses:
- Introduction to Graphics
- Advanced Graphics and Image Processing, which is also offered to ACS MPhil students as L352
Projects
I am happy to discuss Part II / MPhil / PhD project ideas the following areas:
- Virtual Reality (rendering and display)
- Applied visual perception
- Computational displays
- High dynamic range (displays, tone-mapping, HDR reconstruction, encoding)
- Computational photography
- Image and video processing
- Image and video quality metrics
- Computer graphics (with the focus on real-time rendering)
We typically prepare a list of suggested topics with a short description and suggested reading. If you are interested in any of the broad areas listed above, you can either propose your own topic or check the detailed list of topics prepared for the given year. In either case, please contact me by email.
Tutorials
Tutorials presented at conferences and workshops:-
Tutorial: HDR, displays and low-level vision
The tutorial gives an overview of the concept related to perception of high-dynamic range images, display technologies used in VR headsets, and the models of contrast sensitivity.
This course is a part of the tutorial on Cutting-Edge VR/AR Display Technologies, which was co-delivered with George Koulieris, Kaan Aksit and Christian Richardt at SIGGRAPH Asia 2019.
The slides are available here under Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY). If you would like to incorporate them in your own work, please add the attribution text: "Tone-mapping tutorial (C) 2018 Rafal Mantiuk".
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Tutorial: Tone mapping
The tutorial gives an overview of intents of tone-mapping, followed by the basic operations on HDR images and seveal key facts about the perception of HDR scenes. Then, the tutorial reviews the major approaches to tone mapping, such as illumination and refelectance separation, forward visual models, forward and inverse visual models, and constraint mapping problems.
This tutorial was presented as a part of the "Multi-dimensional retargeting" course at SIGGRAPH Asia 2011, Eurographics 2012, as well as a stand-alone workshop for COST Action IC1005 training school in 2012 and 2013.
The slides are available here under Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY). If you would like to incorporate them in your own work, please add the attribution text: "Tone-mapping tutorial (C) 2013 Rafal Mantiuk".
The matlab code used in the tutorial is available here.
Tutorial: Efficient subjective evaluation: Pair-wise comparisons
Books:
- Perceptual display calibration
Rafal K. Mantiuk.
In: Displays: Fundamentals & Applications. A K Peters/CRC Press, 2016
Rolf R. Hainich and Oliver Bimber (ed.)
(publication link) (PDF) - High Dynamic Range Video – From Acquisition to Display and Applications
In: Elsevier, 2016
Frederic Dufaux, Patrick Le Callet, Rafał K. Mantiuk and Marta Mrak (ed.)
(project page) - High dynamic range imaging
Rafal K. Mantiuk, Karol Myszkowski and Hans-Peter Sidel.
In: Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Wiley, 2015
(publication link) (PDF) - Quality Assessment in Computer Graphics
Guillaume Lavoué and Rafal Mantiuk.
In: Visual Signal Quality Assessment, pp. 243-286. Springer, 2014
(doi) (publication link) (PDF) - High Dynamic Range Video
Karol Myszkowski, Rafał Mantiuk and Grzegorz Krawczyk.
In: Synthesis Lectures on Computer Graphics and Animation, 5. Morgan & Claypool, 2008
(doi) (publication link) (PDF) - HDR Image and Video Compression
Rafał Mantiuk.
In: High-Dynamic-Range (HDR) Vision, Springer Series in Advanced Microelectronics, 26. Springer, 2007
Bernd Hoefflinger (ed.)
(publication link) - High-Fidelity Imaging: the computational models of the human visual
system in high dynamic range video compression, visible difference prediction
and image processing
Rafał Mantiuk.
In: PhD. Thesis, Saarland University, 2006
(publication link)
The tutorial explores the problem subjective quality assessment. It discusses the experiment design and statistical analysis while focusing on pair-wise comparison methods. The statistical analysis considers both statistical significance testing and psychometrical scaling.
This tutorial was presented as a part of the COST Action IC1005 HDR Workshop in 2013.
The slides are available here under Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY). If you would like to incorporate them in your own work, please add the attribution text: "Efficient subjective evaluation tutorial (C) 2012 Rafal Mantiuk".
Books are often the best starting point when exploring a new area. I contributed to the following books and chapters: