Constructing and Rendering Vectorized Photographic Images

We have used pixels for years. Cameras and displays use them but they aren't the only representation we can use to when manipulating images. They have some disadvantages. They are not scale-free, adding difficulty when we want to display the same picture on different devices. They are very localised samples, only weakly really related to the underlying optical image. Heavy users in the visual effects industry can have problems with quality after multiple sequential operations.

We have been investigating other ways of representing images, more in keeping with the way synthetic images are created. We will explain our experiments and also show a professional-quality movie made using our latest method.

Room B03

Speaker: P. J. Willis, University of Bath, UK