COS 526
Advanced Computer Graphics
Fall 2014


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Syllabus (tentative)

Week Lectures (click for notes) Readings
 Wed 9/10 Rendering Equation [kajiya86] [zimmerman98] [greenberg97]
1   Mon 9/15 Monte Carlo Path Tracing [jensen03]
 Wed 9/17 Photon Mapping [jensen96] [jensen01] [radiometry]
2   Mon 9/22 Radiosity [cohen88]
 Wed 9/24 Visibility [durand00] [acoustics]
 Wed 9/24 Written Exercise 1 due
3   Mon 9/29 Computational Photography, Texture Synthesis [gutierrez12] [efros99] [efros01] [wei09]
 Wed 10/1 Texture syntheis (cont'd), Image Analogies, Lapped Textures [hertzmann01] [praun00]
 Sun 10/5 Programming Assignment 1 due
4   Wed 10/8 Image Composition, PatchMatch [kwatra03] [perez03] [agarwala04] [hays07] [barnes09]
 Mon 10/6 Multi-exposure: HDR, Flash-noflash [debevec97] [petschnigg04]
5   Mon 10/13 Image-Based Rendering [shum00] [levoy96]
 Wed 10/15 Point Sets [kobbelt04] [pfister00] [rusinkiewicz00]
 Wed 10/15 Written Exercise 2 due
6   Mon 10/20 Point Set Alignment [tam13] [rusinkiewicz01] [henry10]
 Wed 10/22 Point Set Surface Reconstruction [hoppe92] [kazhdan06]
 Fri 10/24 Programming Assignment 2 due
  Fall break!
7   Mon 11/3 Polygonal Meshes [botsch08] [alliez08]
 Wed 11/5 Laplacian Meshes [sorkine05]
8   Mon 11/10 Multiresolution Meshes [hoppe96] [guskov99]
 Wed 11/12 Spectral Meshes [levy09] [zhang10]
9   Mon 11/17 Surface Analysis [mitra14]
 Wed 11/19 Surface Segmentation [shamir08]
 Sun 11/23 Written Exercise 3 due
10   Mon 11/24 Symmetry Detection and Analysis [mitra12]
 Wed 11/26 Programming Assignment 3 due
11   Mon 12/1 Surface Correspondence [hormann08] [vankaick10]
 Wed 12/3 Shape Collection Co-Analysis [kim13]
 Wed 12/3 Final Project Proposal due
12   Mon 12/8 Final Project Talks I
 Wed 12/10 Final Project Talks II
 Tue 1/13 Final Project Report due
 Fri 1/16 Final Project Demo Day (1:30-4:30PM, CS 302)