Schedule

The (tentative) course schedule is as follows. (Please note that lecture links will work once the lectures are posted).

Week Date Topic PPT PDF
Week 1 April 3 Overview and Logistics PPT PDF
April 5 Basic Preliminaries, Quantization PPT PDF
Week 2 April 10 Sampling and Reconstruction, Fourier Analysis PPT PDF
April 12 Image Processing PPT PDF
Week 3 April 17 Image Compositing and Morphing, Reconstruction PPT PDF
April 19 3D Objects and Meshes PPT PDF
Week 4 April 24 Mesh Data Structures PPT PDF
April 26 Mesh Simplification, Progressive Meshes PPT PDF
April 27 Assignment 1 Due April 27 Friday, 11:59 PM
Week 5 May 1 Quadric Error Metrics PPT PDF
May 3 Subdivision PPT PDF
Week 6 May 8 Local, Global Illumination, Rendering Equation PPT PDF
May 10 Real-Time Rendering 1 PPT PDF
Week 7 May 15 Real-Time Rendering 2
May 17 Imaging and Computational Photography PPT PDF
May 18 Assignment 2 Due May 18 Friday, 11:59 PM
Week 8 May 22 Texture Synthesis PPT PDF
May 24 Precomputation-Based Rendering PPT PDF
Week 9 May 29 Image-Based Rendering and Light Fields PPT PDF
May 31 Animation PPT PDF
June 1 Project proposals with milestone Due June 1 Friday, 11:59 PM
Week 10 June 5 Inverse Kinematics PPT PDF
June 7 No class, VisComp retreat
Final Week June 12 Final projects due June 12 Tuesday, 11:59 PM