Cori­ander V. Pines

Free­lance Soft­ware En­gin­eer, Multi­media Art­ist, Indep­endent Audio Re­searcher

Reverse Engineering Instagram's "Hefe" Filter

2014. Image processing effect

Reverse engineered one of Instagram’s image filters and re-implemented in MATLAB and C.

As an exercise, I reverse engineered one of Instagram’s image filters and wrote a detailed description of the process. The re-implemented filter was later used in several popular Linux image editing programs.

Skills: computer graphics, reverse engineering, linear algebra

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