A Christmas present to myself this year: rebuild my desktop into a Hackintosh… Ever since I gave into Lightroom and started using my macbook for photo editing, I had been missing my desktop’s larger monitor and faster processor. Since I can’t run Lightroom on Linux, and since I can’t stand booting into Windows, the only … Read more
My final project for the Computational Photography class at GaTech. Multi-scale image contrast/detail manipulation Operating on images at multiple scales is conventionally done using multi-scale decompositions, such as the Laplacian pyramid [Burt and Adelson 1983]. Such techniques decompose an image to multiple detail layers at different scales in a pyramid like fashion. This project demonstrates how … Read more
Background: I recently took the $$$ plunge and got a fancy new 15″ Macbook Pro to replace my 5-year old ASUS laptop. Though I’m not too fond of Apple’s business model, I just couldn’t seem to find (hardware wise) a more quality built and ascetically pleasing laptop than a Macbook Pro. After 6 years straight of … Read more