Lecture: Rendering Techniques I: Global Illumination and Real-Time Photorealism

Course

Lecturer(s):
- Prof. Dr. Reinhard Klein
Website:
Start: 13.04.2010
Dates: Tue. 11 (c.t.) - 13, A6a
Course number: MA-INF 2204
Curriculum: Master , Diploma (Graduate)
Requirements:
Diploma Area: B
Effort: 2+1 SWS / 4 CP
Max. Participants:
Exams: In the week of 26.07 - 28.07
Follow-up/Side-events: Lecture: Digital Geometric Models

Exercises

Tutor(s):
- Dr. Roland Ruiters
- Dr. Martin Rump
Start: 6. May
Dates: Thu. 17(c.t.) - 19 / every two weeks
Course number:

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

Note: Diploma graduate students can take a combined exam with the lecture "Digital Geometric Models".

Literature

Rendering

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

Slides

Basics (PDF document, 2.4 MB)
Color & Radiometry (PDF document, 1.5 MB)
Reflection Models (PDF document, 1.7 MB)
Reflection Models2 (PDF document, 1.9 MB)
Rendering Equation (PDF document, 1.2 MB)
Importance Sampling (PDF document, 1.4 MB)
Pathtracing (PDF document, 1.0 MB)
Sampling and Reconstruction (PDF document, 1.7 MB)
Acceleration Structures for Path Tracing (PDF document, 1.1 MB)
Photon Mapping (PDF document, 1.2 MB)
Participating Media (PDF document, 0.9 MB)

Assignment Sheets

	Exercise 1: Raytracing Assignment sheet (PDF document, 98 KB) framework.zip (ZIP archive, 68 KB)
	Exercise 2: Raytracer Extension Assignment sheet (PDF document, 120 KB) Framework_new.zip (ZIP archive, 115 KB)
	Exercise 3: BRDF models and MCI Assignment sheet (PDF document, 66 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: Pathtracer and MCI2 Assignment sheet (PDF document, 629 KB) Framework.zip (ZIP archive, 814 KB)
	Exercise 5: Path tracing continued and Filtering Assignment sheet (PDF document, 348 KB) Framework.zip (ZIP archive, 1.6 MB) TheoryMatlab.zip (ZIP archive, 1.0 KB)
	Exercise 6: Photon Mapping Assignment sheet (PDF document, 830 KB) Framework2.zip (ZIP archive, 136 KB)

Additional Documents

A Practical Guide to Global Illumination Using Photon Mapping (PDF document, 27 MB)
Monte-Carlo Raytracing Siggraph 2001 Course (PDF document, 9.3 MB)