PhotoTechEDU – A Photographic Technology Lecture Series

Videos and Slides

All these old links on video.google.com are now broken. I need to update to the YouTube links, where most of these have migrated. In the mean time, find them by search on YouTube.

Search on Google video for photographic technology (which misses a few in the series) or PhotoTechEDU, (which misses some different ones).

List of lectures, with links to Google video and PDF files of slides:
  1. Overview: ideal camera, exposure controls, optics, etc. – videoslides
  2. Camera, eye, and color – videoslides
  3. Ray tracing for optical imaging systems – videoslides
  4. Resolution, contrast, flare, noise, etc. – videoslides
  5. Silicon image sensors – videoslides
  6. Image processing pipelines – videoslides
  7. Lossy image compression, part 1 – videoslides
  8. Diffraction and spectroscopy – videoslides
  9. Astrophotography – videoslides
  10. Image compression, part 2 – videoslides
  11. Document image analysis – videoslides
  12. High-dynamic-range imaging – videoslides
  13. Light field (plenoptic) photography – no video yet – no slides yet
  14. Image Forensics – video
  15. The Gigapxl Project – no video yet – no slides yet
  16. Multi-viewpoint Mosaics – videoslides
  17. Color Management – no video yet – no slides yet
  18. Non-destructive, selective, non-linear and non-modal editing – videoslides
  19. Inkjet printing coming of age – videoslides
  20. (topic not yet cleared for release)
  21. Visualizing ICC profiles, ray tracing, and diffraction in Matlab – videoslides
  22. Measuring, Interpreting and Correcting Optical Aberrations – video – no slides yet
  23. Raw Files and Formats: Black Gold or Tar Baby? – video – no slides yet
  24. Dequantization, Texture, and Superresolution – videoslides more slides
  25. Open-Source-Based High-Resolution Cameras – video – no slides yet
  26. Image Quality Testing and Real-World Challenges – videoslides
  27. Focus on Resolution: Degradations in Image Acquisition – videoslides
  28. Pragmatic HDR Capture and Tone Mapping – video – no slides yet
  29. Photographing VR Panoramas – video – no slides yet
A related talk by Dick Lyon at Berkeley pictures meeting: The Ideal Camera – An Outside-the-Box Analysis – slides