First meetup for the Boston Image Processing and Computer Vision Group (BIPCVG)

Come to learn, network, and socialize. Food will be provided by Atalasoft (http://www.atalasoft.com/)! Here's an outline of the agenda for the meetup:

7:00-7:30 pm: Networking session, drinks and pizzas are available to consume

7:30-7:40 pm: Welcome note about the meet-up

7:40-8:15 pm: "Photoshop's Auto Adjust: 5000 Photos, 5 Photographers, 1 Button", talk by Sylvain Paris (Researcher at Adobe Systems Inc.)

8:15-8:50 pm: "Lessons Learned: Porting a .NET Imaging Toolkit to Java", talk by Steve Hawley (Chief software architect for Atalasoft, Inc.)

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Photoshop's Auto Adjust: 5000 Photos, 5 Photographers, 1 Button

by Sylvain Paris

Researcher at Adobe Systems Inc.

Abstract: While products like Photoshop proposes many tools to edit images, the user remains in charge of deciding what is needed to make a picture look good, that is the retouching process as a whole remains mostly unassisted. In this talk, I will present my research on machine-learning-based photo adjustment that seeks to assist users by taking the image content into account. I will describe the technology behind the new Auto Adjust that appears in the latest version of Photoshop and I will discuss what we have learned along the way. This work is in collaboration with Vladimir Bychkovsky and Frédo Durand at MIT, and Eric Chan at Adobe.

Biography: Sylvain Paris obtained his PhD at INRIA in Grenoble, France in 2004 under the supervision of Dr. François Sillion. Then, he moved to Cambridge Massachusetts where he worked with Prof. Frédo Durand at MIT as a post-doctoral associate. Since 2007, he is a researcher at Adobe. His research interests are computational photography, hair modeling, and related topics.

Lessons Learned: Porting a .NET Imaging Toolkit to Java

by Steve Hawley

Chief software architect for Atalasoft, Inc

Abstract: Porting a large code base from language to language and platform to platform is a task that should be undertaken methodically. With appropriate planning and understanding, a daunting task can be turned into a predictable process with planned outcomes, including room for the unexpected. This talk will include a survey of the process of porting a mature image processing toolkit from .NET to Java. This will include the reasoning behind tool selection (IDE, Java version, build automation, testing, packaging), porting goals and hurdles (environment issues, library support, language support, API feel), and porting techniques.

Biography: Steve Hawley is the chief software architect for Atalasoft, Inc, working on toolkits for image processing and document manipulation, including PDF generation and analysis tools. As a graduate of Oberlin College, Hawley was employed by Adobe Systems from 1990 to 1996 and worked directly on Acrobat Versions 1 through 4 as well as PostScript™. Hawley also worked for Bell Communications Research and Bell Laboratories as a researcher on windowing systems and as an electronic violin maker.