CMSC740-0101: Advanced Computer Graphics-Fall 2022 zwicker

Schedule

The schedule is not final and subject to change during the course. See also the syllabus for more details about the course.

Date Topic & Materials Assignments Date Topic & Materials Assignments
Aug 30 Introduction, realistic rendering Download Introduction, realistic rendering Assignment 1: Getting started Sep 1 Acceleration structures Download Acceleration structures 
Sep 6

Radiometry Download Radiometry

 Sep 8

Monte Carlo integration Download Monte Carlo integration

 Assignment 2: Sample warping, point lights, ambient occlusion
Sep 13 Monte Carlo integration II, BRDF, reflection integral Download BRDF, reflection integral Sep 15 BRDF, reflection integral

 
Sep 20 Rendering Equation Download Rendering Equation Sep 22

Advanced sampling techniques (MIS) Download Advanced sampling techniques (MIS)

Assignment 3: Area lights, dielectrics, Whitted style ray tracing
Sep 27

Bidirectional Path Tracing Download Bidirectional Path Tracing

Brief Intro to MC Rendering.pdf Download Brief Intro to MC Rendering.pdf

 Sep 29 Participating media, subsurface scattering Download Participating media, subsurface scattering; Advanced appearance models
Oct 4

Intro deep learning, neural networks

 Oct 6 Denoising Download Denoising Assignment 4: Microfacet BRDF, path tracing
Oct 11 Denoising Oct 13

Neural Importance Sampling Download Neural Importance Sampling

Neural Radiosity Download Neural Radiosity
Oct 18 3D Geometry Processing: introduction, shape representation Download 3D Geometry Processing: introduction, shape representation Oct 20 3D Point clouds: surface reconstruction Download 3D Point clouds: surface reconstruction
Oct 25 Scene reconstruction from images I Download Scene reconstruction from images I

Assignment 5: Inverse rendering

Slides Download Slides

Oct 27

Scene reconstruction from images II Download Scene reconstruction from images II
Nov 1 Scene reconstruction from images II Nov 3 NeRF-based avatars Download NeRF-based avatars, Scene reconstruction from images III Download Scene reconstruction from images III
Nov 8

Shape analysis: deep learning architectures Download Shape analysis: deep learning architectures

 Nov 10 Shape analysis: deep learning architectures
Nov 15

Shape synthesis: supervised learning Download Shape synthesis: supervised learning

 Final project details Download Final project details Nov 17

Shape synthesis: generative modeling Download Shape synthesis: generative modeling 
Nov 22 Shape synthesis: generative modeling Nov 24 Thanksgiving
Nov 29 Generative shape modeling: applications Download Generative shape modeling: applications Dec 1 Controllable synthesis Download Controllable synthesis
Dec 6 Review, rendering Download Review, rendering Dec 8 Review, deep learning & 3D geometry Download Review, deep learning & 3D geometry

The final exam for the course will follow the official final exam schedule as published on testudo Links to an external site.: the exam will take place on Saturday December 17 from 10:30am-12:30pm in CSI1122.

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