CMSC740-0101: Advanced Computer Graphics-Spring 2021 zwicker

Schedule

The schedule is not final and subject to change during the course. See also the syllabus for more details about the course. All course sessions will take place in this zoom meeting Links to an external site..

Date Topic & Materials Assignments Date Topic & Materials Assignments
Jan 26 Download Introduction, realistic rendering Assignment 1: getting started Jan 28 Download Acceleration structures 
Feb 2

Download Radiometry

 Assignment 2: acceleration structures, point lights Feb 4

Download BRDF, reflection integral
Feb 9 Download Monte Carlo integration Feb 11 Monte Carlo integration II

 
Feb 16 Download Rendering Equation Assignment 3: MC sampling, area lights, microfacet BRDF Feb 18 Class canceled

 
Feb 23

Download Advanced sampling techniques (MIS)

Download Brief Intro to MC Rendering.pdf

 Feb 25 Download Three-point form, BDPT
Mar 2

Download Participating media, subsurface scattering

 Mar 4 Subsurface scattering, Download advanced appearance models
Mar 9 Intro deep learning Assignment 4: Dielectrics, Whitted-style ray tracing, Monte Carlo path tracing Mar 11 Download Denoising
Mar 16 Spring break  Mar 18 Spring break
Mar 23 Denoising, DLSS Download Denoising, DLSS

Mar 25

3D Geometry Processing: introduction, shape representation Download 3D Geometry Processing: introduction, shape representation
Mar 30 3D Point clouds: acquisition, alignment Download 3D Point clouds: acquisition, alignment Apr 1 Surface reconstruction Download Surface reconstruction Final project announcements Download Final project announcements
Apr 6

Surface reconstruction

 Apr 8 Differential geometry on meshes Download Differential geometry on meshes Reading assignment: Chapter 3 in Polygon Mesh Processing Download Chapter 3 in Polygon Mesh Processing book
Apr 13 Curvature-based surface smoothing Download Curvature-based surface smoothing Apr 15

CNNs on point-clouds, PointNet Download CNNs on point-clouds, PointNet
Apr 20 CNNs on 3D point clouds, PointNet Apr 22 Surface deformation Download Surface deformation
Apr 27 Surface deformation Apr 29 Neural networks for shape synthesis and reconstruction Download Neural networks for shape synthesis and reconstruction
May 4 No course session, work on final project May 6 No course session, work on final project
May 11 Course conclusion May 13 No class

 

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