MEETING TIMES -

Mondays and Wednesdays 9:30-11:00, in room 2-131

 

INSTRUCTORS -

 

Julie Dorsey email: dorsey@lcs.mit.edu Room: NE43-254 -- Tech Sqr  Office Phone: 253-8852

Leonard McMillan email: mcmillan@lcs.mit.edu Room: NE43-251 -- Tech Sqr  Office Phone: 258-0381

 

Bryt Bradley email: bryt@lcs.mit.edu Room: NE43-253 -- Tech Sqr  Office Phone: 253-6583

STUDENTS -

http://graphics.lcs.mit.edu/classes/6.838/F99/students.html

AUDIO-VISUAL OFFICE -

http://web.mit.edu/av/www

Room 4-017
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone (617) 253-2808
Fax (617) 253-5945

GRADING -

30% ..... Final Project
20% ..... Project Status Report
10% ..... Project Proposal
20% ..... Paper Evaluations
20% ..... Class Participation

COURSE STRUCTURE -

The course meets 21 times. It will not formally meet the last week of classes (11/29-12/3).

The first meeting will be informational. We will assign paper topics to student groups.

The next 14 meetings will be paper reviews. Generally, 3-4 papers on a related topic will be covered at each class meeting, and each topic will be assigned to groups of 2-3 students. The format of each of these review sessions will be a 15 min introduction by one of the instructors, a 30-min student-led discussion, followed by a 30-min group discussion lead by the instructors and presenting students. You are not specifically graded on the paper topics that you present (though it will be considered in the class participation component). Each student is required to turn in a one-page (<700 words total) review of the all the papers discussed on a given day at the beginning of class (later evaluations will not be accepted). At a minimum, the evaluations should discuss the following:

• Contributions of each paper
• Similarities and differences between papers
• Strengths and Weaknesses
• Ideas for extension (be creative; don't just reiterate future work sections)
Before drop date, each student will submit a written project proposal. Group projects will require special permission from the instructors, and the division of labor must be well enough defined that the separate project proposals clearly indicate each individual's contribution. You should make every effort to discuss both the scope and duration of your project with one or both instructors before the write-up is due.

After drop date students will present a short overview of the project that they are proposing. The discussion will be limited to 20 minutes, 15 minutes for the presentation and 5 for questions. This will allow for 4 presentations per day for the remaining 6 classes. Thus, if more than 24 students remain enrolled we will have to schedule extra class meetings. The proposal overviews should include the motivation, previous work, and potential contributions of the proposed work. You can expect critical comments during presentation that might effect the final direction of your project, thus there is an advantage to presenting early. The order of the presentations will be decided by the instructors and made public in class on November 8.

Each student must arrange to present their final project during the last week of classes (11/29-12/3). The presentation must accommodate both instructors and must not exceed 1 hour in length.

COURSE SCHEDULE -

http://graphics.lcs.mit.edu/classes/6.838/F99/schedule.html

PAPER TOPICS -

1. Light Fields and Lumigraphs

Levoy & Hanrahan, Light-Field Rendering, SIGGRAPH 1995
Gortler, Grzeszczuk, Szeliski, & Cohen, The Lumigraph, SIGGRAPH 1995
Gu, Gortler, & Cohen, Polyhedral Geometry and the Two-Plane Parameterization, EGRW 1997
 
2. Image Warping

Chen & Williams, View Interpolation for Image Synthesis, SIGGRAPH 1993
Shade, Gortler, He, & Szeliski, Layered-Depth Images, SIGGRAPH 1998
Rademacher & Bishop, Multiple-Center-of-Projection Images, SIGGRAPH 1998
 
3. Imposters

Shade, Lischinski, Salesin, DeRose, & Snyder, Hierarchical Image Caching for Accelerated Walkthroughs of Complex Environments, SIGGRAPH 96
Schaufler & Stürzlinger, Generating Multiple Levels of Detail for Polygonal Geometry Models, EGWVE 95
Torborg & Kajiya, Talisman: Commodity Real-time 3D Graphics for the PC, SIGGRAPH 1996
Lengyel & Snyder, Rendering with Coherent Layers, SIGGRAPH 1997
 
4. Texturing - 2D

Heckbert, A Survey of Texture Mapping, CG&A 1986
Blinn, Simulation of Wrinkled Surfaces, SIGGRAPH 1978
Cook, Shade Trees, SIGGRAPH 1984
 
5. Texturing - 3D

Peachey, Solid Texturing of Complex Surfaces, SIGGRAPH 1985
Perlin, An Image Synthesizer, SIGGRAPH 1985
Perlin, Hypertexture, SIGGRAPH 1989
 
6. Volume Rendering

Drebin, Carpenter, & Hanrahan. Volume Rendering, SIGGRAPH '88
Levoy. Display of Surfaces From Volume Data, IEEE CG&A, May 1988
Westover. Footprint Evaluation for Volume Rendering, SIGGRAPH '90
Lacroute & Levoy. Fast Volume Rendering Using a Shear-Warp Factorization of the Viewing Transformation, SIGGRAPH 94
 
7. Texture Synthesis

Heeger and Bergen, Pyramid-Based Texure Analysis/Synthesis, SIGGRAPH 1995
De Bonet, Multiresolution Sampling Procedure for Analysis and Synthesis of Texture Images, SIGGRAPH 1997
Zu, Wu, and Mumford, A Unified Theory for Statistical Modeling of Texture, SPIE 1997
 
8. Acquiring Appearance Parameters for Rendering - Direct Methods

Ward, Measuring and Modeling Anisotropic Reflection, SIGGRAPH 1992
Rushmeier et al., Applying Shape from Lighting Variation to Bump Map Capture, EGRW 97
Rushmeier and Bernardini, Acquiring Input for Rendering at Appropriate Levels of Detail: Digitizing a Pieta, EGRW 98
Dana, Ginneken, Nayar, Koenderink, Reflectance and Texture of Real-World Surfaces, To appear in Transactions on Graphics
 
9. Acquiring Appearance Parameters for Rendering - Indirect Methods

Yu, Debevec, Malik, Hawkins, Inverse Global Illumination: Recovering Reflectance Models of Real Scenes from Photographs, SIGGRAPH 1999
Yu & Malik, Recovering Photometric Properties of Architectural Scenes from Photographs, SIGGRAPH 1998
Debevec and Malik, Recovering High Dynamic Range Radiance Maps from Photographs, SIGGRAPH 1997
 
10. Modeling Buildings

Debevec, Taylor, & Malik, Modeling and Rendering Architecture from Photographs: A Hybrid Geometry- and Image-Based Approach, SIGGRAPH 1996
Debevec & Malik, Recovering High Dynamic Range Radiance Maps from Photographs, SIGGRAPH 1997
Debevec. Rendering Synthetic Objects Into Real Scenes: Bridging Traditional and Image-Based Graphics With Global Illumination and High Dynamic Range Photography, SIGGRAPH 98
 
11. Subsurface Scattering

Hanrahan & Krueger, Reflection from Layered Surfaces due to Subsurface Scattering, SIGGRAPH 1993
Jensen, Legakis, Dorsey, Rendering of Wet Materials, EGRW 99
Gondek, Meyer, Newman, Wavelength Dependent Reflectance Functions, SIGGRAPH 1994
 
12. Weathering and Surface Appearance

Dorsey and Hanrahan, Modeling and Rendering of Metallic Patinas, SIGGRAPH 1996
Dorsey, Pedersen, Hanrahan, Flow and Changes in Appearance, SIGGRAPH 1996
Dorsey, Edelman, Jensen, Legakis, Pedersen, Modeling and Rendering of Weathered Stone, SIGGRAPH 1999
 
13. Modeling Faces

Guenter, Grimm, Wood, Malvar, & Pighin, Making Faces, SIGGRAPH 1998
Pighin, Hecker, Lischinski, Szeliski, & Salesin, . Synthesizing Realistic Facial Expressions From Photographs, SIGGRAPH 1998
Blanz & Vetter, A Morphable Model for the Synthesis of 3D Faces, SIGGRAPH 1999
 
14. Rendering for Animation

Meier, Painterly Rendering for Animation, SIGGRAPH 1996
Wood, Finkelstein, Hughes, Thayer, & Salisin, Multiperspective Panoramas for Cell Animation, SIGGRAPH '97
Kowaliski, Markosian, Northrup, Bourdev, Barzel, Holden, & Hughes, Art-based rendering of Fur, Grass, and Trees, SIGGRPAH '99
Daniels, Deep-Canvas in Disney's Tarzan, sketch SIGGRAPH 1999, CGW

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