Hello.
My name is Rafael. I would like to take part this Google Summer of Code, and I got really interested in some Gimp project ideas related to my area of research. Here I send the application I am planning to submit. If it is possible, I wold be very glad if someone could tell me what he/she thinks about this document.
I give more details in the proposal.

Thank you very much Rafael

Rafael Henrique Castanheira de SouzaProject: "Highlights/Shadow compression" Me

My name is Rafael. I am a Brazilian, currently a PhD student at Tokyo Institute of Technology. I took my undergraduate and master course at State University of Campinas (Unicamp), both in computer science. Besides, my master course was focused on computer vision and image processing. During the last year I have being studying in Tokyo Tech as a research student, working with computer vision and image processing.

So, my major is computer science with emphasis on image processing and computer vision. However, I also have great interest in artificial intelligence and graph theory.

Finally, my irc nick is rafaelh and my native language are Portuguese and Spanish.
Software Development Skills
During my undergraduate course I developed many small software related to my area of research. As my undergraduate research, I developed a tracking system for the Morris water maze. It was a system designed to deal of tracking in videos digitalized from VHS tapes, with low quality and heavy noise. To deal with this, the system used mathematical morphology algorithms. During my master course, I developed an extension of this system, with several new features. The most important one was the ability of tracking multiple targets, since occlusion is an important issue in this situation. To deal with it I created a graph representation of the occlusions during the tracking process and used an ant colony heuristic to find the occlusion solution.
I developed this programs in both Linux and Windows, keeping the code compatible with both platforms. I developed both programs using C++ under E-macs (for Linux) and DevCpp (Windows). I used the LTI library for the basic image processing operations. During my research student period, I implemented in Matlab a prototype for a system for image alignment using local deformation. This system is meant to be applied in the removal of color artifacts in endoscopic images through non-rigid registration of color channels.
I have a basic knowledge of GTK+, enough for the project I intend to apply. I have never been involved in other Free Software projects before.

Image Manipulation Skills I only use image manipulation software for basic tasks, without artistic purposes. However, I have a wide knowledge of image processing problems and algorithms to solve them, since this is my area of research. GIMP and GEGL Skills
I used GIMP in a user level. I have heard about GEGL, but I have never used it yet. I have not contributed to GIMP or GEGL either. I use the GIMP version in my distro's packages.
SoC Project
I have never participated in Summer of Code. I have got very interested in the project "Highlights/Shadow compression". Its content is related to my area of research, is a very useful operator and it would be very nice to see it added to the GEGL library and used in GIMP. So, my goal is to implement a fast and robust version of this operator. Now I am a graduate student and I do not work, since I receive a scholarship. I would have no problem to dedicate 5 hours/day (or more, during summer vacations) in this project. Since I am a PhD student, I do not have to take any class, so it would not interfere with the project.

p.s.: I'm also interested in one of the last year's project, the one called "Unpaper". Has it became obsolete?

Rafael

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Rafael Henrique Castanheira de Souza < rafaelh.souza@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello.
My name is Rafael. I would like to take part this Google Summer of Code, and I got really interested in some Gimp project ideas related to my area of research. Here I send the application I am planning to submit. If it is possible, I wold be very glad if someone could tell me what he/she thinks about this document.
I give more details in the proposal.

Thank you very much Rafael

Rafael Henrique Castanheira de SouzaProject: "Highlights/Shadow compression"Me

My name is Rafael. I am a Brazilian, currently a PhD student at Tokyo Institute of Technology. I took my undergraduate and master course at State University of Campinas (Unicamp), both in computer science. Besides, my master course was focused on computer vision and image processing. During the last year I have being studying in Tokyo Tech as a research student, working with computer vision and image processing.

So, my major is computer science with emphasis on image processing and computer vision. However, I also have great interest in artificial intelligence and graph theory.

Finally, my irc nick is rafaelh and my native language are Portuguese and Spanish.
Software Development Skills
During my undergraduate course I developed many small software related to my area of research. As my undergraduate research, I developed a tracking system for the Morris water maze. It was a system designed to deal of tracking in videos digitalized from VHS tapes, with low quality and heavy noise. To deal with this, the system used mathematical morphology algorithms. During my master course, I developed an extension of this system, with several new features. The most important one was the ability of tracking multiple targets, since occlusion is an important issue in this situation. To deal with it I created a graph representation of the occlusions during the tracking process and used an ant colony heuristic to find the occlusion solution.
I developed this programs in both Linux and Windows, keeping the code compatible with both platforms. I developed both programs using C++ under E-macs (for Linux) and DevCpp (Windows). I used the LTI library for the basic image processing operations. During my research student period, I implemented in Matlab a prototype for a system for image alignment using local deformation. This system is meant to be applied in the removal of color artifacts in endoscopic images through non-rigid registration of color channels.
I have a basic knowledge of GTK+, enough for the project I intend to apply. I have never been involved in other Free Software projects before.

Image Manipulation Skills I only use image manipulation software for basic tasks, without artistic purposes. However, I have a wide knowledge of image processing problems and algorithms to solve them, since this is my area of research. GIMP and GEGL Skills
I used GIMP in a user level. I have heard about GEGL, but I have never used it yet. I have not contributed to GIMP or GEGL either. I use the GIMP version in my distro's packages.
SoC Project
I have never participated in Summer of Code. I have got very interested in the project "Highlights/Shadow compression". Its content is related to my area of research, is a very useful operator and it would be very nice to see it added to the GEGL library and used in GIMP. So, my goal is to implement a fast and robust version of this operator. Now I am a graduate student and I do not work, since I receive a scholarship. I would have no problem to dedicate 5 hours/day (or more, during summer vacations) in this project. Since I am a PhD student, I do not have to take any class, so it would not interfere with the project.