With the help of digital technology, visual effects have been widely used in film production lately. For example, up to April 2004, the top ten all-time best selling movies are so-called effects movies. Six of them even won Academic awards for their visual effects. This course will cover the techniques from computer graphics, computer vision and image processing with practical or potential usages in making visual effects　such as image warping/morphing, feature detection and matching, tracking, optical flow, image stitching, motion estimation, camera calibration, MatchMove, matting and compositing, structure from motion, image-based modeling, stereoscopic film, multi-view stereo, bullet-time video, face animation, image-based lighting and so on.

http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cyy/vfx/