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CS680: Advanced Computer Graphics (Fall 2008)


CS680: Advanced Computer Graphics (Fall 2008)
Scalable Global Illumination Algorithms

Instructor: Sung-eui Yoon


When and where: 4:00-5:30pm on Tues. and Thur. at Room 3444 (5th class room in 3rd floor at CS building)
First class: Sep-4 (Thur.) (please come to first class for more information)
Office Hours: 5:30-6:00pm (right after the class) on Tues. and Thur. at Room 3432
TA: JungHyun Park (parkjh at jupiter dot kaist.ac.kr)
Prerequisites: Undergraudate computer graphics or equivalent OR Instructor's approval
Textbook: Course Notes and In-Class Handouts


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Outline

  • Course overview
  • Lectures and tentative schedule
  • Grade policy
  • Student presentations
  • Additional reference materials
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    Course overview

    Fig. 1, Photo-realistic image generated by ray tracing method. (Image excerpted from PovRay homepage)

    Photo-realistic rendering has been one of major topics in the fields of computer graphics and visualization. Various global illumination methods have been developed to achieve such photo-realistic rendering given a model. Such methods have been widely used in various applications including movies, product designs, and virtual prototyping. However, we are still unable to provide interactive performance for global illuminations producing photo-realistic rendering results.

    In this class, we will study basic global illumination methods and discuss how we can further improve current global illumination methods to effectively and efficiently produce photo-realistic rendering results. Particularly, we will focus on the following issues:

  • Interactive global illumination methods
  • Scalable global illumination methods
  • Global illumination methods for dynamic models

    • What you will get at the end of the course:

  • Broad understanding on various rendering methods
  • In-depth knowledge on global illumination

    • What you will do:

  • Choose a topic from paper lists that the instructor prepared
  • Become the in-class expert on the topic and present talks related to the topic in the course.
  • Final project: come up with your own idea related to the topic, implement it to improve the state-of-the-art global illumination methods, and write a final report
  • Mid-term exam: reviewing basic global illumination methods

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    Lecture schedule (subject to change)

    # of lecture, date Topics and slides Related material(s) Update time and notice
    1, Sep - 4 Overview on the course and course policy
  • CS480: Undergraduate Computer Graphics Course
    		• Review the course slides at the link shown in left
    2, Sep - 9 Basic building blocks
    3, Sep - 11
    4. Sep -16     		Radiometry HW1
    5, Sep - 18 Rendering equation
    6, Sep - 23
    7, Sep - 25    		 Monte Carlo integration
    8, Sep - 30
    9, Oct - 2
    10, Oct - 7    		 Monte Carlo ray tracing
    Oct - 9
    		No class due to conf. (Pacific Graphics) attendance
    11, Oct - 14 Student presentations (overview) Overview presentation files
    12, Oct - 16 TaeJoon Kim, BoChang Moon, Student presentations 1 Slides
    Oct - 21 No class due to the mid-term exam period
    Oct - 23 Mid-term exam
    13, Oct - 28 HongYoon Kim, GeoYeop Kim, Student presentations 2 Slides
    14, Oct - 30 JungHwan Lee, YongYoung Byun, MH Seong, Student presentations 3 Slides
    15, Nov - 4 Invited talk on global illumination for movie production
    16, Nov - 6 DukSu Kim, DaSeong Han, JaePhil Heo, Student presentations 4 Slides
    17, Nov - 11 Pio Claudio, Hubert, Student presentations 5 Slides
    Nov - 13
    		Mid-term project presentation Slides
    18, Nov - 18 BC Moon, JP Heo, 2nd round, Student presentations 1 Slides
    19, Nov - 20 DS Kim, MH Seong, Hubert, 2nd round, Student presentations 2 Slides
    20, Nov - 25 JH Lee, TJ Kim, 2nd round, Student presentations 3 Slides
    21, Nov - 27 Invited talk on Line-art Illustration of Dynamic and Specular Surfaces
    22, Dec - 2 YY Byun, HY Kim, 2nd round, Student presentations 4 Slides
    22, Dec - 4 GY Kim, DS Han, Pio, 2nd round, Student presentations 5` Slides
    22, Dec - 9 No class
    22, Dec - 11 No class
    Dec - 16 Final exam
    Dec - 18
    		Final project presentation Slides
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    Grade policy

    The class grade of each student is determined by

  • Quiz and mid-term (20%)
  • Class presentations (30%)
  • Final project (50%)
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    Student presentations and reports

    Student projects at 2007

    Topic Project homepage

    For your presentations, please use the this powerpoint template.

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    Additional reference materials and links

    SIGGRAPH course notes

    Public software:

  • Our in-house interactive ray tracer
  • Lux Render

    • Paper search:

  • Google scholar
  • Tim Rowley's graphics paper collections
  • Ke-Sen Huang's graphics paper collections

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    Acknowledgements: The course materials are built upon graduate courses offered at UNC-Chapel Hill and Prof. Kavita Bala's course slides. Particularly, I'd like to thank Kavita Bala; some of slides are directly excerpted from her slides on advanced computer graphics. Thank you so much! Line

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