Computer Vision for Visual Effects

"Hollywood's achievements in visual effects have been enabled not just by advances in computer graphics, but just as much by techniques from the neighboring field of computer vision. Vision techniques such as of camera tracking, 3D reconstruction, and face and body motion capture contribute to most of the visual effects shots we see today. Rich Radke's book Computer Vision for Visual Effects begins with the basics and shows how math, geometry, image processing, and scene understanding comprise these tools that create the movies. Read it and you'll understand an important part of the magic that makes the films we love." Paul Debevec, University of South California