Schedule

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

Location: ES&T L1125
TA Jaeil (Jerry) Choi (TSRB 230)
Office Hrs: Mon & Thu 11a-12n
Day/Time: Tue-Thu 3:05pm - 4:25pm
    Labs: Digital Media Lab (DML) (IntelPCs) (CCB 104a), & Mac Lab (CCB 130)

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OSCAR Spring 2006 Official School Calendar    

  Classes from January 10, 2006 to April 29, 2006

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
1/10
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
1/12
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
1/17
Videos: Examples of Layers, Compositing, and Colors. Slides: making-videos.pdf
Videos: Forrest Gump, Pleasentville.

Videos from earlier classes
Thursday
1/19
Maya for DVFX (Clint Hidinger) Meet in CoCB 104a (Digital Media Lab [DML])
3 Tuesday
1/24
Making Videos Slides: making-videos.pdf
Videos: Duality http://www.crewoftwo.com/
Videos: 405 The Movie http://www.405themovie.com/Home.asp
Thursday
1/26
CSE Dist. Lecture Gene H. Golub
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science
Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering
Stanford University
PS1: Chromakeying
Assigned, Due 2/7/06
4 Tuesday
1/31
Project Ideas

Slides: ToolsCodecs.pdf
Video: Hollowman (2000)
, Death Becomes Her (1992), Gladiator (2000)

Thursday
2/2

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

 

5 Tuesday
2/7

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

Presentations by: Ravi Ruddarraju, Jay Summet, Nipun Kwatra, etc.

PS1: Chromakeying
Due 2/7/06, 2pm
OpenCV download
OpenCV discussion group

VIPER toolkit
Intel OpenCV Manual
Intel IPL Manual

kwatra-opencv-tutorial.tgz
summetj-openCV-linux.tar.gz

Thursday
2/9

Camera Calibration

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

CR#1 Assigned

Cameras (|HTM | PDF)
Camera Calibration (HTM| PDF)

Videos: The Mummy
www.realviz.com

www.2d3.com

6 Tuesday
2/14
2nd Assignment Details PS#2 Assigned (Camera Calib / Match Moving) slides for Camera Calibration & PS2
Thursday 2/16 Attend Gamesworld Symposium

7 Tuesday 2/21 Critique #1 Presentations CR#1 Due
 
Thursday 2/23 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.
HW#2 (part a) Due, 12noon

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.

8 Tuesday 2/28 Project Proposals Presentations Proposal Due
Thursday 3/2 Project Proposals Presentations (cont.) HW#2 (part b) Due, 12noon

9 Tuesday 3/7 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 3/9

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 3/14 Project Mid-Term Presentations Project Mid-Term Report Due
Thursday 3/16 Project Discussions!
11 Tuesday 3/21 Spring Break    
Thursday 3/23 Spring Break    
12 Tuesday 3/28 Critique 2 Presentations CR#2 Due

Project Update #1

Thursday 3/30 Story boards and Animatronics
13 Tuesday 4/4 Guest Speaker: *Greg Turk / Georgia Tech*
bullet Robert L. Cook, Loren Carpenter and Edwin Catmull, The Reyes image rendering architecture;; SIGGRAPH 1997
Project Update #2
Thursday 4/6 Guest Speaker: Maribeth Gandy (GT IMTC)
14 Tuesday 4/11 Guest Speaker: Tim Keenan, GT Alum, Dreamworks Animation Project Update #3
  Thursday 4/13 Guest Speaker: Sing Bing Kang, Microsoft Research
15 Tuesday 4/18 Internal Screeing I Projects Due at 12n
  Thursday 4/20 Motion Capture
16 Tuesday 4/25 In Class Workshop
  Thursday 4/27 Final Screening
In Class
Projects Due at 8AM.
  Friday 4/28 5pm TSRB Aud. FINAL SCREENING/SHOWCASE
Finals
May 2-6, 2006
Final Exam Period All Equipment MUST be RETURNED (See TAs) Reports Due (Including Email RE: individual Contributions)

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