A New Photography Style using a Shooting Assistant Robot

We propose a new photography style using Shooting Assistant Robot (SAR). A human photographer can take photos from multiple view points using SAR, which is difficult without SAR. SAR works in harmony with the human photographer in two modes, "Making-of" and "Synchronized".

Yuji Kokumai, Nikon Corporation
Hideki Sasaki, Nikon Corporation
Tomomi Takashina, Nikon Corporation
Yutaka Iwasaki, Nikon Corporation

Painting Photolization

We present a method for transferring an input painting into a photorealistic appearance by referring several photos which are partly similar to the painting.

Chien-Wen Jung, National Taiwan University
Sheng-Jie Luo, National Taiwan University
Chiun-Kai Huang, National Taiwan University
Bing-Yu Chen, National Taiwan University
Wen-Huang Cheng, Research Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica
I-Chao Shen, Research Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica