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CS779: Rendering Images with Computers

Spring 2005

Instructor: Stephen Chenney

Email: cs779-1@cs.wisc.edu
Office: 6387 Computer Sciences and Statistics
Office Hours: By appointment

Announcements

Assignment 3: Present a Non-Photorealistic Rendering Paper. The schedule is now available. These will be the final lectures of class - given by you.

Calendar

Apr 4 NPR Talks Day 4 Lecture notes	Apr 6 NPR Talks Day 5 Lecture notes	Apr 8 No more classes!
Mar 28 NPR Talks Day 1 Lecture notes	Mar 30 NPR Talks Day 2 Lecture notes	Apr 1 NPR Talks Day 3 Lecture notes
Mar 14 IBR for Real-Time Rendering Lecture notes	Mar 16 Point based rendering Lecture notes	Mar 18 No class.
Mar 7 Environment maps in practice High-dynamic Range Capture Image-based rendering intro Lecture notes Debevec and Malik, "Recovering high dynamic range radiance maps from photographs", SIGGRAPH 1997, pp 369-378.	Mar 9 Image based rendering Lecture notes McMillan and Bishop, "Plenoptic Modeling: An Image-Based Rendering System", SIGGRAPH 95, pp 39-46. Levoy and Hanrahan, "Light Field Rendering", SIGGRAPH 96, pp 31-42. Gortler et al., "The Lumigraph", SIGGRAPH 96, pp 43-52 Wood et al, "Surface Light Fields for 3D Photography", SIGGRAPH 2000, pp 287-296.	Mar 11 Image based rendering Lecture notes Lots of videos.
Feb 28 Subsurface scattering Sky models Lecture notes Jensen et al., "A practical model for subsurface light transport", SIGGRAPH 2001 Hanrahan and Krueger, "Reflection from layered surfaces due to subsurface scattering", SIGGRAPH 93 Preetham, Shirley and Smits, "A practical analytic model for daylight", SIGGRAPH 99	Mar 2 NPAR paper presentation assignment Project overview Tone-Mapping Lecture notes Ward-Larson, Rushmeier and Piatko, "A Visibility Matching Tone Reproduction Operator for High Dynamic Range Scenes", IEEE TVCG, v.3 n.4, p.291-306, October 1997. Tumblin and Turk, LCIS: a boundary hierarchy for detail-preserving contrast reduction", SIGGRAPH 99, pp. 83-90. Durand and Dorsey, "Fast bilateral filtering for the display of high-dynamic-range images", SIGGRAPH 2002, pp. 257-266.	Mar 4 More tone mapping Lecture notes Reinhard, Stark, Shirley and Ferwerda, "Photographic Tone Reproduction for Digital Images", SIGGRAPH 2002, pp. 267-276. Fattal, Lischinski and Werman, "Gradient domain high dynamic range compression", SIGGRAPH 2002, pp 249-256. Ferwerda, Pattanaik, Shirley and Greenberg, "A model of visual adaptation for realistic image synthesis", SIGGRAPH 96, pp. 249-258.
Feb 21 Progressive Radiosity Meshing Visual Importance Lecture notes Reading: Sillion and Puech, Chapters 4 and 5	Feb 23 Radiosity Meshing and Reconstruction Volume Scattering Radiometry Lecture notes Reading: PBR Chapter 12	Feb 25 Scattering Lecture notes Reading: PBR Chapters 12 and 17, and Section 15.7
Feb 14 Light Models Lecture notes Reading: PBR Sections 16.4 and 16.5.	Feb 16 No Class!	Feb 18 Radiosity Introduction Lecture notes Reading: Sillion and Puech, Chapter 3
Feb 7 Light Models Lecture notes Reading: PBR Chapter 13, Sect 15.6	Feb 9 Direct Lighting Light Transport Equation Lecture notes Reading: PBR Sect 16.1 and Sect 16.2	Feb 11 Light Transport Equation Path Tracing Lecture notes Reading: PBR Sect 16.2-16.3
Jan 31 Lambertian Reflectance Perfect specular reflectance Lecture notes Reading: PBR Sections 5.4, 9.0 - 9.3, 14.5. There are some equation errors in these sections - lecture notes take precedence.	Feb 2 Microfacet Models Lafortune's model Glossy on Diffuse Model Lecture notes Reading: PBR Sections 9.4-9.6, 15.5 Background Reference: Greg Ward, Measuring and Modeling Anisotropic Reflection, SIGGRAPH, 1992 Background Reference: Christophe Schlick, An Inexpensive BRDF Model for Physically-based Rendering, Eurographics Rendering, 1994	Feb 4 Metallic Patinas and Kubelka-Munk Evaluating reflectance Combining Reflectance Texture Mapping Lecture notes Reading: PBR Chapters 10 and 11, Sect 15.5.5 and 15.5.6 Background Reference: Dorsey and Hanrahan, Modeling and Rendering of Metallic Patinas, SIGGRAPH 1996.
Jan 24 Radiometry Integrals Monte-Carlo Integration Lecture notes Reading: PBR Sect 5.3 and Chapter 14. Most of Chapter 14 will not be covered in class, but you need to understand the functionality provided by samplers from the MC class.	Jan 26 Improving Monte-Carlo Efficiency Lecture notes Reading: PBR Sect 7.3-7.5 and 15.1-15.4.	Jan 28 Cameras Image reconstruction Lecture notes Reading: PBR Chap 6, Sect 7.6 and 14.5.2 Reading: Craig Kolb, Don Mitchell and Pat Hanrahan, A realistic camera model for computer graphics, SIGGRAPH '95, pp 317-324
	Jan 19 Course introduction A gentle introduction to physically-based rendering Lecture notes	Jan 21 Raytracing Radiometry Lecture notes Reading: PBR Chapters 1 - 5. Chapters 2-4 will not be covered in class, but you need to understand the functionality discussed in them (but not necessarily the implementations).

General Course Information

This course is about using computers to produce images. It covers high-quality rendering (photorealistic rendering), image-based rendering, stylized rendering, and real-time rendering. Early in the course there will be a sequence of assignments, and then a project to finish.

Schedule: 9:30 - 10:45 MWF in 2355 Engineering Hall
Pre-Requisite: CS 559
Grading weights: (Subject to change)
- Assignments 50%
- Project 50%
Syllabus (up to date)
Textbook: Pharr and Humphreys, "Physically-Based Rendering", Morgan-Kaufmann, 2004. You need this book for the software that comes with it. The book has an extensive web site with additional code modules, errata and other helpful advice.
Reference Books Many of these are specialized and/or expensive. You are not required to purchase them.
- Your favorite undergrad graphics textbook, preferably one that discusses raytracing.
- Peter Shirley, "Realistic Ray Tracing", AK Peters, 2000
- F. Sillion and C. Puech, "Radiosity and Global Illumination, Morgan Kaufmann, 1994
- T Moller and E Haines, "Real Time Rendering," 2nd Edition, AK Peters, 2002
- A whole bunch of papers from your favorite digital library and SIGGRAPH proceedings.
Two previous incarnations of this course have been taught: Fall 2000 and Spring 2003

Last modified: Tue Jan 11 19:30:29 CST 2005