Lecture: Advanced Topics in Computer Graphics I

Course

  • Lecturer(s):
  • Start: 13. April 2021, online
  • Dates: Tue. 12:15 - 13:45 and Thu. 12:15 - 13:45 via Zoom (meeting details available in eCampus)
  • Course number: MA-INF 2209
  • Curriculum: Master
  • Effort: 4.0 SWS
  • Exams: TBA

Exercises

Description

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
  • Models for the description of optical material properties and light sources
  • Methods and algorithms for the acquisition of optical material properties
  • Digital Photography

Literature

  • Laszlo Szirmay-Kalos, MONTE-CARLO METHODS IN GLOBAL ILLU-
    MINATION, Skript TU Wien, 1999/2000 (available on eCampus)
  • Matt Phar and Greg Humphreys: Physically Based Rendering: From The-
    ory To Implementation Morgan Kaufmann, 2018, Third Edition, freely
    available under www.pbr-book.org/3ed-2018/contents.html
  • 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

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Slides

Assignment Sheets

Exercise R00: Introduction to CUDA
Assignment sheet  (PDF document, 157 KB)