Schedule

Instructor:

Irfan Essa
Office Hours: After Class

Location: 

CoCB 102

TA:

James Vanderhyde
Office Hours: Wed/Thu 10:15a-11:45a in DML
Day/Time:

Tuesday - Thursday 12:05pm-1:25pm

TA:

Jarsolav Tyman Jr.
Tues, Wed, Thurs: 3:30p-4:30p
in DML or by appointment
Labs:

Digital Media Lab (DML) (IntelPCs) (CCB 104a), &
 Mac Lab (CCB 130)

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OSCAR Spring 2004 Official School Calendar    

  January 5, 2004 - April 23, 2004

Schedule WILL change depending on various factors

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

 


 

  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

bullet A flexible new technique for Camera Calibration
bullet Paper in PDF
 

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
bulletSeitz and Dyer; View morphing,  SIGGRAPH 1996 [pdf]
bulletChen and Williams; View interpolation for image synthesis; SIGGRAPH 1993. [pdf]

2D Graphics/IBR

bulletBeier & Neely "Feature-based image metamorphosis" SIGGRAPH 1992. [pdf]
bulletLevoy & 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
 
 
  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
bullet 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.

bulletBurt and Adelson, "The Laplacian Pyramid as a Compact Image Code", IEEE Transactions on Commun(31), No. 4, April 1983, pp. 532-540.
bulletBurt 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
   
10 Tuesday 3/9 SPRING BREAK  
  Thursday 3/11 SPRING BREAK    
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*
bullet Robert L. Cook, Loren Carpenter and Edwin Catmull, The Reyes image rendering architecture;; SIGGRAPH 1997
Project Update  
  Thursday 4/1 Guest Speaker; Wayne Wooten. Pixar
bullet"Finding Nemo": Technology, Techniques, and Tips
  for creating award winning animated features.
 
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)  
  Thursday 4/15 Guest Speaker:  
16 Tuesday 4/20 Lab Session  
  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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