Silicon Valley Siggraph - Photoshop November 17, 2005

Silicon Valley ACM SIGGRAPH November Meeting

Recent Advances in Photoshop Technology

Date: Thursday, November 17, 2005
Time: 7:30pm, Snacks, Networking, Socializing 8:00pm, Presentation
Location: Town Hall Auditorium, Apple Headquarters Mariani. Drive
Cupertino

ABSTRACT

Ashley will be giving a concise tour of some of the most exciting tools added to Photoshop in the last few releases. Her presentation will provide a lead-in to a technical discussion of what's going on behind the scenes.

Todor will talk about the science behind some of your favorite Photoshop tools like the Healing Brush. This will include introduction to image processing in the gradient domain, emphasizing perceptually correct image processing based on invariance to change of illumination.

BIOGRAPHY

Ashley Manning is a Product Manager for Adobe Photoshop, where she
focuses on new markets and technologies for Photoshop. Prior to joining Adobe, Ashley worked with an Entrepreneur in Residence at Sutter Hill Ventures developing and evaluating business plans and at eCircles.com, one of the first online sites offering photo-sharing and editing. Ashley holds an MBA from Stanford Business School and a B.A. from Yale University

Todor Georgiev has a Master's Degree in Theoretical Physics from Sofia University (1987), and a PhD in Theoretical Physics from Southern Illinois University (1995). He has been working in Adobe Photoshop since 1997, focusing on transfer of mathematical methods from Theoretical Physics to Imaging. He is interested in color, perceptual and Gradient Domain imaging, HDR, Light Fields and Computational Photography. He has published numerous papers and holds more than 10 patents related to image processing.