On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Danny Robson <danny@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am a PhD candidate at the Australian National University, currently > creating and evaluating performance profiling tools for NUMA systems. > I have always had an interest in the realm of graphics, though I have > only managed minor patches for GEGL/BABL in the past. > > As the deadline for gsoc2010 applications is far too rapidly > approaching, I was curious about thoughts on another alternative > proposal: implementing a collection or series of related filters. > > I have a selection of ideas which I have briefly investigated, and may > be of interest: > > 1. While GEGL has excellent support for high depth colour spaces, there > are few examples of filters which take advantage of this explicitly. I > would be interested in implementing (or porting) a collection of tone > mapping operators as native GEGL filters. This leads me to wonder what kind of operation the GEGL 'tone-map' op currently performs. > > 2. Image matting techniques with trimaps, such as the closed form of > Levin et. al., have very interesting applications for end users. I > would be interested in implementing one such technique and further > filters applying it (such as haze removal and spatially varying white > balance). > > 3. The matting of #2 could segue nicely into an implementation of image > completion/inpainting (which is receiving more public exposure due to > similar techniques in the upcoming Adobe CS5). GMIC and Resynthesizer already do this. Perhaps they could do it faster or better. > > I'm not quite clear on the level of complexity required for a gsoc > proposal so I have left the extent and combination of ideas open. > I would be open to further suggestions for this style of proposal, and > shall use any input for a more concrete proposal if there is interest. > > I'll try to catch some people on IRC (under the nick 'eNGIMa') to > discuss the idea's desirability. > > Many thanks for your consideration, > - Danny Robson _______________________________________________ Gegl-developer mailing list Gegl-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gegl-developer
