Lecture: Advanced Topics in Computer Graphics I

Course

Lecturer(s):
- Prof. Dr. Reinhard Klein
Website:
Start:
Dates: Tue. and Thu. 12:30 - 14, LBH III.03
Course number: MA-INF 2209
Curriculum: Master , Diploma (Graduate)
Requirements:
Diploma Area: B
Effort:
Max. Participants:
Exams:
Follow-up/Side-events:

Exercises

Tutor(s):
- Dr. Martin Rump
- Dr. Oliver Burghard
Start: 15.4.2011
Dates: Fri. 8:30 - 10:00, CIP-Pool (yellow containers, Römerstr.)
Course number:

Lecture does not take place on Thur 7. Apr 2011

On next thursday the 7. Apr 2011 lectures do not take place, due to most students being detained to attend.

Starting the lecture

In the first lecture it was decided that exercises will take place each friday from 8:30 - 10:00 in the CIP pool (yellow containers in the Römerstraße). The first exercise is scheduled for the 15. Apr 2011. Each week a new exercise sheet will be available on this website that has to be solved until the next week. Theoretical submissions must be handed in on tuesday after the lectures and practical assignments will be checked in the exercises on friday.

A mailinglist (VL-ATCG1) exists that should already include participants of the first lecture. If you are not included, you can inscribe yourself at https://lists.iai.uni-bonn.de/mailman/listinfo.cgi/vl-atcg1.

Good start !

Description

Digital geometric models

Digital geometric models find nowadays numerous applications ranging from industrial CAD and terrain or scientific visualization to games and movie productions.

This lecture covers all aspects of DGM from their aquisiton and representation to editing and processing. In detail it discusses the following topics:

Methods for the generation of polygonal meshes (laser scanning, registration and integration of single mesh parts, etc.)
Representation: point based representations, efficient mesh data structures
Processing: reconstruction techniques, mesh compression, optimization of polygonal meshes (fairing and remeshing), mesh decimation and refinement, hierarchical representations.

Rendering

This lecture discusses advanced rendering techniques that aim at highly realistic images. Particular emphasis lies on high quality depictions of materials.

In detail the topics of this lecture are:

Foundations of radio- and photometry
Models for the description of optical material properties and light sources
Transport-, volume visualization- and rendering equation
Algorithms and techniques for the solution of the volume visualization and rendering equation
Algorithms and techniques of image based rendering

Literature

Digital geometric models

Mario Botsch, Leif Kobbelt, Mark Pauly, Pierre Alliez, Bruno Levy: Polygon Mesh Processing CRC Press, 2010

Rendering

Henrik Wann Jensen: Realistic Image Synthesis Using Photon Mapping AK Peters, 2001
Philip Dutré, Philippe Bekaert and Kavita Bala: Advanced Global Illumination AK Peters, 2003
Peter Shirley and R. Keith Morley: Realistic Ray Tracing - Second Edition AK Peters, 2003

Slides

Introduction to Ray Tracing (PDF document, 2.5 MB)
Color and Radiometry (PDF document, 1.6 MB)
Reflection Models (PDF document, 1.7 MB)
Reflection Models 2 (PDF document, 1.7 MB)
Rendering Equation and MC Integration (PDF document, 6.3 MB)
MC Integration (PDF document, 3.0 MB)
Pathtracing (PDF document, 5.0 MB)
Sampling and Reconstruction (PDF document, 6.2 MB)
Acceleration Structures (PDF document, 3.7 MB)
Photon Mapping (PDF document, 7.8 MB)
Precomputed Radiance Transfer (PDF document, 3.5 MB)
Geometry Acquisition and Registration (PDF document, 4.4 MB)
Implicit Representations and Distance Functions (PDF document, 1.8 MB)
Volume Carving (PDF document, 1.9 MB)
Global Optimization for Shape Fitting (PDF document, 3.3 MB)
RANSAC based Shape Detection (PDF document, 1.4 MB)
Differential Geometry (PDF document, 1.8 MB)
Mesh Smoothing (PDF document, 3.9 MB)
Differential Coordinates and Editing (PDF document, 4.1 MB)
Mesh Parametrization (PDF document, 4.3 MB)

Assignment Sheets

	Exercise 1: Raytracing Assignment sheet (PDF document, 137 KB) framework.zip (ZIP archive, 68 KB) moc_AppWidget.cpp (C++ source code, 2.5 KB)
	Exercise 2: Triangles, BRDFs and Photometry Assignment sheet (PDF document, 250 KB) Framework.zip (ZIP archive, 120 KB)
	Exercise 3: BRDFs and MC Integration Assignment sheet (PDF document, 201 KB) Cook,Torrance - Reflectance Model for Computer Graphics.pdf (PDF document, 1.5 MB) Framework.zip (ZIP archive, 146 KB) Lafortune, Foo, Torrance, Greenberg - Non-Linear Approximation of Reflectance Functions.pdf (PDF document, 1.4 MB)
	Exercise 4: Path tracing and MIS Assignment sheet (PDF document, 663 KB) Framework.zip (ZIP archive, 63 KB)
	Exercise 5: More Pathtracing and Convolution Assignment sheet (PDF document, 364 KB) Framework.zip (ZIP archive, 1.6 MB) TheoryMatlab.zip (ZIP archive, 1.0 KB)
	Exercise 6: Photon Mapping Assignment sheet (PDF document, 850 KB) Framework.zip (ZIP archive, 137 KB)
	Exercise 7: PRT Assignment sheet (PDF document, 195 KB) framework.zip (ZIP archive, 1.6 MB)
	Exercise 8: PCA-ICP Assignment sheet (PDF document, 138 KB) framework-08.zip (ZIP archive, 20 MB) introduction-to-matlab.pdf (PDF document, 108 KB)
	Exercise 9: MC-Simplification Assignment sheet (PDF document, 115 KB) framework.zip (ZIP archive, 28 MB)
	Exercise 10: Normals Assignment sheet (PDF document, 115 KB) framework.zip (ZIP archive, 15.9 MB)
	Exercise 11: Reconstruction Assignment sheet (PDF document, 659 KB) framework.zip (ZIP archive, 5.4 MB)
	Exercise 12: Smoothing and Differential Geometry Assignment sheet (PDF document, 333 KB) framework_students.zip (ZIP archive, 5.6 MB) Implicit Fairing of Irregular Meshes using Diffusion and Curvature Flow.pdf (PDF document, 1.6 MB) omtoolbox.dll (1.3 MB) omtoolbox.lib (24 KB)