My primary research interest is the development of
techniques for the acquisition, manipulation/enhancement and
visualization of high-quality and realistic imagery in a real-time
environment. In particular, I have been working in the following
sub-areas:
Color
Science
Color as an important aspect of our daily life,
it needs to be accurately reproduced under different lighting
conditions and devices. This is requiring to understand how colors
need to be mapped on different devices colorimetric
characterization, taking into account the different properties and
characteristics of the device where the image will be visualized
such as the color gamut as, well as we need to simulate several
aspects of how our visual system is working to properly convey the
appearance of the image under specific viewing conditions.
Image Processing
My mainly interest is to develop novel image processing techniques
to solve problems in several other research areas such as Computer Graphics and Vision.
Recently we have presented a state-of-the-art of specular removal techniques, where
a deep analysis and comparison is presented (see the
Website for more info).
A novel image decomposition techniques, able to decompose textures while preserving edges,
has been proposed and applied on several applications providing excellent results.