Schedule

Instructor Irfan Essa (TSRB 230A)
Office Hrs: After Class

Location: ES&T L1105
Project Coordinator: Spencer Reynolds Day/Time: Tue-Thu 1:35pm - 2:55pm
TA Huamin Wang
Office Hrs: MWF 3-4pm TSRB 217/218a
Labs: Digital Media Lab (DML) (IntelPCs) (CCB 104a), & Mac Lab (CCB 130)

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OSCAR Spring 2005 Official School Calendar    

  Classes from January 10, 2005 to April 29, 2005

Schedule WILL change depending on various factors

Weeks: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 , 15, 16, Finals

Week Day/Date Topic / Readings Due            Notes / Additional Material
1 Tuesday
1/11
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
1/13
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
1/18
Videos: Examples of Layers, Compositing, and Colors.   Slides: making-videos.pdf
Videos: Forrest Gump, Pleasentville.

Videos from earlier classes
  Thursday
1/20
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
1/25
Tools / Digital Video Codecs etc (Brostow)   Slides: ToolsCodecs.pdf
  Thursday
1/27
Maya for DVFX

 

PS1: Chromakeying
Assigned, Due 2/5/04
Meet in CoCB 104a (Digital Media Lab [DML])
4 Tuesday
2/1

Project Ideas

Digital Imaging, Blending, Fading, etc. Compositing, Chromakeying

 


Video: Hollowman (2000)
, Death Becomes Her (1992), Gladiator (2000)

  Thursday
2/3

Lab Session

Tutorial on OpenCV, IPL, VisionSDK, and the VIPER toolkit

Presentations by: Raffay Hamid, Nipun Kwatra, Alton Patrick, Spenser Reynolds, etc.

  OpenCV download
OpenCV discussion group

VIPER toolkit
Intel OpenCV Manual
Intel IPL Manual

5 Tuesday
2/8

Camera Calibration

bullet A flexible new technique for Camera Calibration
bullet Paper in PDF
  Cameras (|HTM | PDF)
Camera Calibration (HTM| PDF)

Videos: The Mummy
www.realviz.com

www.2d3.com

Interesting: http://superbowl.ifilm.com/superbowl/

  Thursday
2/10
Form Groups / Choose Critique Topics. Groups!

CR#1 Assigned

 
6 Tuesday
2/15
Image Based Rendering
bulletSeitz and Dyer; View morphing,  SIGGRAPH 1996 [pdf]
bulletChen and Williams; View interpolation for image synthesis; SIGGRAPH 1993. [pdf]
 
PS#2 Assigned (Camera Calib / Match Moving)

 

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) 

  Thursday 2/17

2D Graphics/IBR

bulletBeier & Neely "Feature-based image metamorphosis" SIGGRAPH 1992. [pdf]
bulletLevoy & Hanrahan; Light Field Rendering,  SIGGRAPH 1996.
PS1: Chromakeying Due, 12noon

LUMIGRAPH, Gortler et al.

7 Tuesday 2/22 Critique #1 Presentations CR#1 Due
 
 
  Thursday 2/24 Guest Speaker: Harpreet Sawhney (Saranoff Coorporation)

"Representations of Video and 3D Data for Manipulation and Recognition"

HW#2 (part a) Due, 12noon  
8 Tuesday 3/1 Project Proposals Presentations Proposal Due  
  Thursday 3/3 Project Proposals Presentations (cont.) HW#2 (part b) Due, 12noon

 

9 Tuesday 3/8 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]
  DL_TipE.html (Hitachi)
glTIP (Hong Kong U)
  Thursday 3/10

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
 
  CS 7321 Spring 98 Projects
10 Tuesday 3/15 Project Mid-Term Presentations Project Mid-Term Report Due  
  Thursday 3/17 Guest Speaker: Maribeth Gandy (GT IMTC)    
11 Tuesday 3/22 SPRING BREAK    
  Thursday 3/24 SPRING BREAK    
12 Tuesday 3/29 Critique 2 Presentations CR#2 Due

Project Update

 
  Thursday 3/31

Guest Speaker: Sing Bing Kang, Microsoft Research

Abstract | Bio  
13 Tuesday 4/5 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 4/7 Workshop by Spencer Reynolds    
14 Tuesday 4/12 Project Discussions! Project Update  
  Thursday 4/14 Internal Screening I Projects Due  
15 Tuesday 4/19 Internal Screeing II Projects Due at 8AM   
  Thursday 4/21 Guest Speaker: Wayne Wooten (Pixar) The Incredibles.  
16 Tuesday 4/26 Guest Speaker: Armin Bunderlien (Sony/ImageWorks)    
  Thursday 4/28 Final Screening
In CoCB 16
Projects Due at 8AM.  
Finals
May 2-6, 2005
Final Exam Period All Equipment MUST be RETURNED (See TAs) Reports Due (Including Email RE: individual Contributions)  

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