Topics and Schedule
CS 395 - Advanced Computer Graphics

Here is the list of the topics we will cover in class.  We begin discussion of topics with a 45 minute introductory lecture by the prof.  Remaining class time in the week will be taken up with in-depth student presentations on the week's topic.  Readings available only to ACM Digital library subscribers are in italics.

Weekly Topics:	Matching Readings
Thu/Tue Jan 10/15 -- Overview: Profs Tumblin (talk) & Watson (talk) All we know about advanced graphics in 90 minutes!  Hold onto your hats... then calm down with some vids.
Thu-Thu Jan 17-24 -- Shape representation: Prof. Watson (talk; demos 1, 2; images) Volumes, implicit surfaces, parametric surfaces, point based models... Jan 22: Zadeh, Joseph (paper) Jan 24: Ortony, Alison (paper)	Watt: Chs. 2.2-2.4; 3.1-3.5; 4; 13.1-13.3 "Adaptively sampled distance fields: a general representation of shape for computer graphics" Frisken et al., SIGGRAPH 00. "Surface splatting" Zwicker et al., SIGGRAPH 01.  (project page)
Thu-Tue Jan 17-29 -- Image space techniques: Prof. Tumblin (talk; paper) Anti-aliasing, compositing, image morphing... Jan 22: Hazen, Daniel (poly tex maps, demo) Jan 24: Hetler, Justin (env matting, clip 1,2,3) Jan 29: Anon, Joshua (paper)	Watt: Ch. 14 "Polynomial texture maps" Tom Malzbender et al., SIGGRAPH 01. "Environment matting and compositing" Douglas Zongker et al.,  SIGGRAPH 99.
Tue/Thu Jan 29/31 - Surface mappings: Prof. Watson (talk; pictures) Procedural textures, bump/displacement maps... Jan 31: Cousens, Jeffrey (paper) Jan 31: Setlur, Vidya (lapped textures)	Watt: Ch. 8 "Texture synthesis on surfaces" Greg Turk, SIGGRAPH 01. "Lapped textures" Praun et al.,  SIGGRAPH 00.
Tue/Thu Feb 5/7 - Global illumination & light transport: Prof. Tumblin (talk) BRDFs, radiosity, photon mapping, subsurface scattering... Due dates: Feb 5 - project proposal, or Feb 5 - reference list for survey paper  Feb 5: Paris, Joseph (instant radiosity) Feb 7: Dunne, Jared (paper, videos) Feb 7: Halstead, Daniel	Watt: Chs. 7; 10 "Reflection-space image-based rendering" Cabral et al., SIGGRAPH 99. "Instant radiosity" Alexander Keller, SIGGRAPH 97.  (home page)
Tue/Thu Feb 12/14 - Shape manipulation: Prof. Watson (talk, 1, 2, 3) Simplification, morphing, comparison, fitting... Feb 14: Cihocki, John (paper)	Watt: Ch. 2.5 "Shape transformation using variational implicit functions" Turk et al., SIGGRAPH 99. "Topology matching for fully automatic similarity estimation of 3D shapes" Hilaga et al., SIGGRAPH 01.
Tue/Thu Feb 19/21 - Light fields and Approximations: Prof. Tumblin (talk) Visibility culling, shadow maps, lumigraphs... Due date: Feb 19: survey paper for grads Feb 19: Lechner, Thomas (deep shadow maps) Feb 21: Albrecht-Buehler Conrad (lumigraph, pic) Feb 21: Meherally, Amyn (paper)	Watt: Chs. 9; 16.5 "The lumigraph" Steven Gortler et al., SIGGRAPH 96. "Deep shadow maps" Tom Lokovic and Eric Veach,  SIGGRAPH 00.
Tue/Thu Feb 26/28 - Non-photorealism: Prof. Watson (talk, pictures, example) Ink, pencil, watercolor, oil, artistic style... Feb 26: Shabib, Mustafa (paper) Feb 28: Flury, Marc Feb 28: Du Val, Ryan (paper)	"Escherization" Craig Kaplan et al., SIGGRAPH 00. "Digital facial engraving" Victor Ostromoukhov, SIGGRAPH 99. more...
Tue/Thu Mar 5/7 - Model acquisition: Prof. Tumblin (talk) Image based modeling & rendering, light field capture, motion capture, 3D scans... Mar 5: Saltzman, Phillip (paper, video) Mar 7: Dayal, Abhinav (dig mich) Mar 7: Brooks, Michelle	Watt: Ch. 16 "The Digital Michelangelo Project: 3D Scanning of Large Statues" Marc  Levoy et al., SIGGRAPH 00.  (project page) "Image-Based Visual Hulls" Matusik et al., SIGGRAPH 00.  (project page, presentation)
Tue/Thu Mar 12/14 - Demos, Odds & Ends: Prof. Tumblin Project demos, makeup presentations, survey papers due Thursday...