| Week |
Day/Date |
Topic / Readings |
Due |
Notes / Additional
Material |
| 1 |
Tuesday
1/6 |
Introduction / Administrivia /
"How'd they do that?" |
|
Slides:
intro.pdf
Video:
AlanChenWalkonWater.mpg
Video:
caM4MatchMoving.avi
Video: Panic Room
Video: a segment from
SIGGRAPH
2002 Animation Theatre |
| |
Thursday
1/8 |
Digital Representations |
|
Slides:
digital-representations.pdf
Notes:
SIGGRAPH Hypergraph (Digital
Video,
Data Compression,
TOC)
Info:
What is is Progressive-scan video (CNET.com)? |
| 2 |
Tuesday
1/13 |
Videos: Examples of Layers, Compositing, and
Colors. |
|
Slides: making-videos.pdf
Videos: Forrest Gump,
Pleasentville.
Videos from earlier classes |
| |
Thursday
1/15 |
Making Videos: Continued from Last Class |
|
Slides: making-videos.pdf
Videos: Duality
http://www.crewoftwo.com/
Videos: 405 The Movie
http://www.405themovie.com/Home.asp |
| 3 |
Tuesday
1/20 |
Maya for DVFX |
|
Meet in CoCB 104a (Digital
Media Lab [DML]) |
| |
Thursday
1/22 |
Tools / Digital Video Codecs etc (Brostow) |
PS1:
Chromakeying
Assigned, Due 2/5/04
 |
Slides:
ToolsCodecs.pdf |
| 4 |
Tuesday
1/27 |
Project Ideas
Digital Imaging, Blending, Fading, etc.
Compositing, Chromakeying
|
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Thursday
1/29 |
Digital Imaging, Blending, Fading, etc. Compositing, Chromakeying,
Conintued!
|
|
Video: Hollowman
(2000),
Death Becomes Her (1992),
Gladiator (2000) |
| 5 |
Tuesday
2/3 |
Camera Calibration
ILM/LucasArts Visit. |
|
Cameras (|HTM
| PDF)
Camera
Calibration (HTM|
PDF)Videos: The Mummy
www.realviz.com
www.2d3.com Interesting:
http://superbowl.ifilm.com/superbowl/
|
| |
Thursday
2/5 |
Form Groups / Choose Critique Topics. |
Groups!
PS1: Chromakeying
Due, 12noon
CR#1 Assigned |
|
| 6 |
Tuesday
2/10 |
Tutorial on OpenCV,
IPL,
VisionSDK, and the
VIPER toolkit |
PS#2 Assigned
(Camera Calib / Match Moving)
 |
OpenCV
download
OpenCV
discussion group
VIPER toolkit
Intel OpenCV Manual
Intel IPL
Manual |
| |
Thursday 2/12 |
Image Based Rendering
 | Seitz and Dyer; View
morphing, SIGGRAPH 1996 [pdf] |
 | Chen and Williams; View
interpolation for image synthesis; SIGGRAPH 1993. [pdf] |
2D
Graphics/IBR
 | Beier & Neely
"Feature-based image metamorphosis"
SIGGRAPH 1992. [pdf] |
 | Levoy & Hanrahan;
Light Field Rendering, SIGGRAPH 1996. |
|
|
slides for View
Morphing in PDF
slides for View
Interpolation in PDF
http://www.debevec.org/Campanile/
http://www.debevec.org/RNL/
http://www.debevec.org/FiatLux/
CS 590SS winter 01UofW Project 1
Viewmorphing WebPage (links to the paper and movies)
LUMIGRAPH, Gortler et al.
|
| 7 |
Tuesday 2/17 |
Critique #1 Presentations |
CR#1 Due

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| |
Thursday 2/19 |
Critique #1 Presentations (cont.) |
HW#2 (part a) Due, 12noon
 |
|
| 8 |
Tuesday 2/24 |
Project Proposals Presentations |
Proposal Due
 |
|
| |
Thursday 2/26 |
Project Proposals Presentations (cont.) |
HW#2 (part b)
Due, 12noon
 |
|
| 9 |
Tuesday 3/2 |
Case Study: Tour Into the Picture
 | Youichi Horry, Kenichi Anjyo, and
Kiyoshi Arai. "Tour
into the picture: Using a spidery mesh interface to make animation
from a single image." SIGGRAPH
97 [pdf]
[movie]
[Course
Notes from SIGGRPAH 1998] |
Case Study: Laplacian Pyramids for Image
Manipulation.
 | 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 |
|
|
DL_TipE.html
(Hitachi)
glTIP (Hong Kong U)
CS 7321 Spring 98 Projects |
| |
Thursday 3/4 |
"Expanding the Horizons of Game Design"
Nolan Lichti, Brian Hochhalter, Heather Logas, Danny Muller, Information
Design & Technology TSRB 133 |
|
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| 10 |
Tuesday 3/9 |
SPRING BREAK |
|
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| |
Thursday 3/11 |
SPRING BREAK |
|
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| 11 |
Tuesday 3/16 |
Project Mid-Term Presentations |
Project Mid-Term Report
Due |
|
| |
Thursday 3/18 |
Guest Speaker: Maribeth Gandy (GT IMTC) |
|
|
| 12 |
Tuesday 3/23 |
Critique 2 Presentations |
CR#2 Due Project Update |
|
| |
Thursday 3/25 |
Critique 2 Presentations (Cont). Motion Capture |
|
MSR Project:
The
Process of Motion Capture- Dealing with the Data
www.vicon.com
www.biovision.com
www.locomotion.com
www.peakperform.com
www.motionanalysis.com
www.moves.com
Michael Jackson Ghost Video
Mummy Videos
Marlene Dietrich
animation produced by VCP
etc.
slides in html
slides in pdf |
| 13 |
Tuesday 3/30 |
Guest Speaker: *Greg
Turk / Georgia Tech*
|
Project Update |
|
| |
Thursday 4/1 |
Guest Speaker; Wayne Wooten. Pixar
 | "Finding Nemo": Technology, Techniques, and Tips
for creating award winning animated features. |
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| 14 |
Tuesday 4/6 |
Project Discussions! |
Project Update |
|
| |
Thursday 4/8 |
Internal Screening |
Projects Due |
|
| 15 |
Tuesday 4/13 |
Guest Speaker:
J. P. Lewis (USC) |
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Thursday 4/15 |
Guest Speaker: |
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| 16 |
Tuesday 4/20 |
Lab Session |
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| |
Thursday 4/22 |
Final Screening |
Projects Due |
|
| Finals |
April 30, Friday 8:00-10:50am |
All Equipment MUST be
RETURNED (See TAs) |
Reports Due (Including
Email RE: individual Contributions) |
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