1 A Course on Digital Video Special Effects

We present a brief overview of our course "Digital Video Special Effects ” taught in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. This course is offered as an elective at the undergraduate level every year and is very popular with the undergraduate students. Here we present the goals that lead to this course and a discussion of the material that is covered. We also present what the students are expected to do and how they learn to “deal ” with digital video as a medium. The merger of the technical aspects of video processing, with the entertainment aspects of generating special effects make this a very unique class. It aims to make analysis, processing, and synthesis of video ubiquitous to the students, while teaching them the technical aspects of what can be done with video.