DVFX 2000: Schedule

OSCAR Spring 2000 Official School Calendar
Class Time: 12:00n-1:30pm, Location: 102 CoC Building
January 11, 2000 - April 27, 2000


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** MidTerm Class Surveys **

Legends: Description Confirmed Past Readings Deadline Assigments/Directives Not Confirmed Links (DUUH!)
Week 
Date 
Topic 
  Notes
1  Tuesday 1/11 Introductions/Administration 
Thursday 1/13 1. Intros/Groups
2. What do you mean Critiques? - IE
2 Tuesday 1/18 What Tools we will USE? - GB
PS#1 Assigned.
Thursday 1/20  Digital Representations 
3 Tuesday  1/25 Digital Compositing
Thursday  1/27 Attend GVU Brown Bag: Bonnie Nardi "netWORK: The invisible work of social connectivity"
4  Tuesday 2/1  Deadline: PS #1 Due by 12 noon (Individual Projects) [Extension until Wednesday Midnight]
Form Groups & Discuss Projects
Project Ideas
Critique #1: Assigned		 SuperBowl Commercials
Thursday  2/3 Cameras, Scenes 
Reading: Leeuw Chapter 3, 5 (handed out: 2/1/2000)
5 Tuesday 2/8 Digital Imaging, Filtering, Blending, Fading, etc.
  • Burt and Adelson, "The Laplacian Pyramid as a Compact Image Code", IEEE Transactions on Commun(31), No. 4, April 1983, pp. 532-540.
  • Burt and Adelson, "A Multiresolution Spline with Application to Image Mosaics", ACM Transactions on Graphics(2), No. 4, pp 217-236, October 1983
    (Handed Out 2/3/2000)
Thursday 2/10 Deadline: Critique #1 due by 12noon.
Critique Presentations by Groups
6 Tuesday 2/15 Deadline:  Propose Final Project
Critique Presentations Continued
C++ Tool on PCs (NT) for development. - GB
Thursday 2/17 Discuss Final Projects
2D Computer Graphics: Sampling, Textures, etc.
7  Tuesday 2/22 Deadline: Project Storyboard / Progress Report Due
Guest Speaker: Richard Cavallaro, SportVision (Hockey pucks, NFL Yard Markers, etc.)		 SportVision's WWW page
Thursday 2/24 Case Study: "Tour into the Picture" 
Reading: Youichi Horry, Kenichi Anjyo, and Kiyoshi Arai. "Tour into the picture: Using a spidery mesh interface to make animation from a single image." In Turner Whitted, editor, SIGGRAPH 97 Conference Proceedings, Annual Conference Series, pages 225--232. ACM SIGGRAPH, Addison Wesley, August 1997. Sample movie available. [Course Notes from SIGGRPAH 1998]
8  Tuesday 2/29 Deadline: Mid-Term Review: Project Description/Status Due by 12n
Class Presentations by All Groups (as required)
Thursday 3/2 3D Effects  / Morphing / Viewmorphing
Readings: 
  • Wittenburg Chapter 7
  • Thaddeus Beier and Shawn Neely; Feature-based image metamorphosis; Proceedings of the 19th annual conference on Computer graphics , 1992, Pages 35 - 42
  • Steven M. Seitz and Charles R. Dyer; View morphing, Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference on Computer graphics , 1996, Pages 21 - 30
  • Shenchang Eric Chen and Lance Williams; View interpolation for image synthesis; Proceedings of the 20th annual conference on Computer graphics , 1993, Pages 279 - 288
9 Tuesday
3/7		 SPRING BREAK
Thursday
3/9		 SPRING BREAK
10 Tuesday
3/14		 Audio in Film - Guest Speakers: Maribeth Gandy, Tom Drewes
Weekly Project Update by each Group
Thursday
3/16		 **CHANGE**
Open class discussions with Gabe.
11 Tuesday
3/21		 **CHANGE**
Guest Speaker: Jerome Solomon / Rhythm & Hues		 Jerome's Home Page
Rhythm & Hues
*BONUS* Tuesday
3/21		 Workshop on Tracking by Arno Schoedl in CoCB 259B
Thursday
3/23		 **CHANGE**
12n-1pm in MiRC 102B. GVU Dist. Lecture: Neil Gershenfeld "Thinks that Think"
1pm-1:25pm: Case Study: "Tracking"		 Neil's Home Page
Physics and Media Group
MIT Media Lab
12 Tuesday
3/28		 **CHANGE**
Deadline: Critique #2 due by noon
Critique Presentations
Weekly Project Update by each Group
Thursday
3/30		 Guest Speaker: Bruce Bullis from Adobe
13 Tuesday
4/4		 Guest Speaker: Joseph Anderson (Georgia State) "Perception of Digital Moving Images"
Weekly Project Update by each Group		 Joseph Anderson directs the Center for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image at the Georgia State University 

 
Thursday
4/6		 More graphics/vision ....
Group Meetings, Workshop
14 Tuesday
4/11		 Guest Speaker: Greg Turk "Graphics Output, Rendering"
Paper: Robert L.Cook, Loren Carpenter, and Edwin Catmull, "The Reyes image rendering architecture", Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics July 27 - 31, 1987, Anaheim, CA USA
Weekly Project Update by each Group		 Greg Turk's Home Page
Geometry Group
Thursday
4/13		 Guest Speaker: Jessica Hodgins, "CG characters" Jessica Hodgins Home Page

bAnimation Lab
15 Tuesday
4/18		 Deadline: Final Project Screening (Internal Jury)
Thursday
4/20		 Lab session
16 Tuesday
4/25		 Lab session
Thursday
4/27		 Deadline: Final Project Screening (External Jury) *GVU BrownBag*
5/1-5/5 Final Exams
Deadline: Final Report Due by Final Exam Time
Possible Other Topics
Case Study: "Mosaics and Panoramic Images"
Case Study: "What Dreams May Come"
Case Study: "Video Rewrite" / Faces-Lips
Case Study: "Virtual Camera"
Case Study: "Fly through"

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