Wait a minute, isn't "temperature" associated with weather? How can color have temperature? The thing is that color temperature is actually a characteristic of visible light that has several important applications in photography, publishing, and many other fields. We actually see and feel it all the time, it's just that we don't realize that we … Continue reading What Is Color Temperature?
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The Intuition Behind Image Watermarking
This is a continuation of my blog post on intro to digital watermarking. In that post, we discussed what digital watermarking is and how it can be achieved. Here, we will discuss the intuition behind image watermarking and a few techniques that can be used. If you look at enough number of images, you will … Continue reading The Intuition Behind Image Watermarking
Image Steganography
As discussed in my previous post, steganography is the art of hiding the fact that communication is taking place. We achieve this by hiding original information inside other information known as carrier files. Many different carrier file formats can be used, but digital images are the most popular because of their frequency of occurrence on … Continue reading Image Steganography
Panoramic Images
Consider a situation where you are standing on top of a mountain or some other beautiful natural scenery. You are enjoying a beautiful view that seems to span from far left to far right and you want to take a nice picture of the whole thing. Your camera allows you to capture only a limited … Continue reading Panoramic Images
How Do We Recognize Objects?
Look around and you will see a lot of day to day objects. You recognize them almost instantaneously and involuntarily. You don't have to wait for a few minutes after looking at a table to understand that it is in fact a table. Machines, on the other hand, find it very difficult to do this … Continue reading How Do We Recognize Objects?
Peeking Into The Third Dimension With 3D Glasses
Instead of directly explaining it, I will take a different route this time. Let's take a look at this conversation between Walter and Michael. In case you are not familiar with them, Walter is a mathematician and Michael is his friend who refuses to acknowledge that humans need complex mathematical models. This attitude of Michael doesn't … Continue reading Peeking Into The Third Dimension With 3D Glasses
Good Things Come In Small Packages
We encounter digital images everyday. We see a lot of JPEG files on our computers, cameras, phones and tablets. The actual images are huge and it should actually take up a lot of space to fit in all that data. But somehow our machines are able to compress all those images and store everything compactly. … Continue reading Good Things Come In Small Packages
Perpetual Enigma 