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Archive: Teaching People and Machines How to Enhance Images

85 views · Published 13 November 2013 · 51:15 · Indexed 4 November 2026

Channel: UW Video · 2013 · Education

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Procedural tasks such as following a recipe or editing an image are very common. They require a person to execute a sequence of operations (e.g. chop onions, or sharpen the image). People commonly use step-by-step tutorials to learn these tasks. In this episode, the focus is on the domain of photo manipulations and the developed tools and techniques that help people learn, compare and automate photo manipulation procedures. Ph.D. candidate Floraine Berthouzoz at the University California Berkeley presents a demonstration-based system for automatically generating succinct step-by-step visual tutorials of photo manipulations. The tutorials are quick to generate. Moreover, users are faster and make fewer errors with these tutorials compared to book and video tutorials. Berthouzoz also demonstrates a new interface that allows learners to browse, analyze and compare large collections (i.e. thousands) of photo manipulation tutorials based on their command-level structure. Finally, Berthouzoz presents a framework for generating content-adaptive macros (programs) that can transfer complex photo manipulation procedures to new target images. Together these tools allow people to learn, compare and automate procedural knowledge.

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