Lecture: Advanced Topics in Computer Graphics I

Course

Lecturer(s):
- Prof. Dr. Reinhard Klein
Website:
Start: 14.04.2015
Dates: Tue. 12:30 - 14:00 VR-Lab I.80 and Thu. 12:30 - 14:00 HS III 03a
Course number: MA-INF 2209
Curriculum: Master , Diploma (Graduate)
Requirements:
Diploma Area: B
Effort: 4.0 SWS
Max. Participants:
Exams:
Follow-up/Side-events:

Exercises

Tutor(s):
- Dr. Oliver Burghard
- Dipl.-Inform. Sebastian Merzbach
Start: 21.04.2015
Dates: Tue. 10:45 - 12:15 VR-Lab I.80
Course number:

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
Matt Phar and Greg Humphreys: Physically Based Rendering: From Theory To Implementation Morgan Kaufmann, 2004

Here you can find the lecture in extern Basis.

Starting the lecture

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In this lecture you will have the chance to learn many interesting theoretical as well as practical topics. In case you have a problem understanding something, please always feel free to write to the mailing list. This should be a place where you students can talk freely about the lecture, so please do not hesitate to ask and reply! Of course, the tutors are also subscribed on the mailing list and will reply as well.

The book "Polygon Mesh Processing" mentioned bellow is also available for reading at our institute - though it may be more interesting for later topics. If you are curious, just ask.

Good start!

Slides

1-Radiometry and Tone Mapping (PDF document, 3.1 MB)
2-Global Illumination Problem (PDF document, 4.3 MB)
3-BRDF Models (PDF document, 2.6 MB)
4-Monte Carlo Integration (PDF document, 2.3 MB)
5-Filtering (PDF document, 2.4 MB)
6-Acceleration Structures (PDF document, 2.4 MB)
7-Photon Mapping (PDF document, 2.3 MB)
8-Environment Mapping and Spherical Harmonics (PDF document, 2.6 MB)
1-Geometry Acquisition and Registration (PDF document, 2.2 MB)
2-Explicit and Implicit Surface Representations (PDF document, 4.3 MB)
3-Volume Carving (PDF document, 1.4 MB)
4-Global Optimization for Shape Fitting (PDF document, 1.9 MB)
5-RANSAC based Shape Detection (PDF document, 2.7 MB)
6-Differential Geometry (PDF document, 2.5 MB)
7-Mesh Smoothing (PDF document, 1.9 MB)
8-Mesh Parameterization (PDF document, 2.2 MB)
9-Differential Coordinates and Editing (PDF document, 3.7 MB)

Assignment Sheets

	Exercise G06: PCA and Iterative Closest Points Assignment sheet (PDF document, 150 KB)
	Exercise G07: Normal Distribution Transform and Marching Cubes Assignment sheet (PDF document, 156 KB)
	Exercise G08: Surface reconstruction from unorganized points Assignment sheet (PDF document, 163 KB)
	Exercise G09: Global Optimization for shape fitting Assignment sheet (PDF document, 647 KB)
	Exercise G10: Differential Geometry Primer Assignment sheet (PDF document, 158 KB)
	Exercise G11: Smoothing and Differential Geometry Assignment sheet (PDF document, 391 KB)
	Exercise R00: Introduction to Matlab Assignment sheet (PDF document, 113 KB)
	Exercise R00: Introduction to Python Assignment sheet (PDF document, 119 KB)
	Exercise R01: Radiometry and Tonemapping Assignment sheet (PDF document, 173 KB)
	Exercise R02: Whitted Raytracing Assignment sheet (PDF document, 256 KB)
	Exercise R03: Whitted Raytracing Assignment sheet (PDF document, 151 KB)
	Exercise R04: BRDF-Models Assignment sheet (PDF document, 204 KB)
	Exercise R05: Pathtracing Assignment sheet (PDF document, 675 KB)