Tentative Syllabus and Schedule

CS779: Rendering Images with Computers

• High-Quality Rendering
  • Radiometry
  • Radiosity equation
  • Solution strategies
  • Form factor computations
  • Adaptive and hierarchical meshing
  • Importance
  • Non-diffuse surfaces
  • Participating media
  • Reflectance models
  • Tone reproduction
• Monte Carlo techniques for rendering
  • Probability and Statistics Refresher
  • Naive Monte Carlo algorithms
  • Path Tracing Algorithms
  • Metropolis rendering
  • Splatting and Photon Mapping
  • Hybrid Algorithms
• Non-photorealistic rendering
  • General issues and motivation
  • Student presentations of assorted papers
• Image Based Rendering
  • Rendering from Images
  • Light field rendering
  • Mixing Images and Geometry
  • Rendering Faces
• Point-based Rendering
  • Survey
• Replacing geometry with images
  • Texturing to reduce complexity
  • Multi-layered depth maps
• Visibility
  • Line space approaches
  • The visibility complex
  • Occlusion culling
  • Memory management