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Lecture: Advanced Topics in Computer Graphics I

Course

  • Lecturer(s):
  • Start: 09.04.2019
  • Dates: Tue. 12:15 - 13:45 HS 3 and Thu. 12:15 - 13:45 HS 3
  • Course number: MA-INF 2209
  • Curriculum: Master
  • Diploma Area: B
  • Effort: 4.0 SWS

Exercises

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

 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

Digital geometric models

Here you can find the lecture in externBasis. 

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

Assignment Sheets

Exercise 1: Autoencoder
Assignment sheet  (PDF document, 141 KB)
Exercise 2: ImageSegmentation
Assignment sheet  (PDF document, 527 KB)
Exercise 3: Superresolution
Assignment sheet  (PDF document, 689 KB)
Exercise 4: 3DDeepLearning
Assignment sheet  (PDF document, 134 KB)

Additional Documents