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Techniques for combining digital images have been used extensively to obtain special effects in movies and television. (In fact, the motion picture industry has been using analog methods for the same purposes since the 1920s.) In this chapter we study a number of such techniques.

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Velho, L., Frery, A., Gomes, J. (2009). Combining Images. In: Image Processing for Computer Graphics and Vision. Texts in Computer Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-193-0_14

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