Seminar mit Bakkelaureatsarbeit WS 2006/07

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Seminar mit BakkelaureatsarbeitWS 2006/07

• Leiter Stefan Jeschke
• Tutoren Andrea Weidlich, Georg Zotti, Ralf
  Habel, Daniel Scherzer, Oliver Mattausch,
  Michael Wimmer

Institute of Computer Graphics and
Algorithms Vienna University of Technology
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Seminar mit Bakkelaureat

• Mission statement "Write a scientific state of
  the art report"
• Challenges
• Write a compact but comprehensive report
• Study literature via web extract relevant from
  non relevant papers
• Structure the research field
• Use compact writing style
• Use LATEX
• Give a talk

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Requirements

• STAR-Report
• Use LATEX stylesheet (? website)
• Style like a scientific paper
• Abstract, Introduction, .., Conclusions,
  References
• At least 15 pages per person (working in groups
  is NOT possible)
• Talk
• Use institute stylesheet (? website)
• 20 minutes duration 5 minutes discussion
• Discussion of other reports

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Important Dates

• Paper Deadline Friday, 05.01.2007
• Talks Thursday, 11.01.2007 (time tba.)
• Tips
• Don't wait until the last week!
• Look at the webpage for results from last
  semester
• www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/courses/Seminar/

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Also on the webpage..

• Paper Search Engines
• Tips for Preparing Presentations and Writing
  Papers
• Dictionaries, Lexica
• Stylesheets for the report and talk
• Time for the talks
• www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/courses/Seminar/

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Topics

• "Modern Texture Mapping in CG" (Daniel Scherzer)
• Overview of the most important techniques
  likerelief mapping, bump mapping or shadow
  mapping
• "Real-time Shadows in CG" (Daniel Scherzer)
• Techniques shadow maps and shadow volumes
• most important extensions/improvements
• "Out-of-Core Rendering of Massive
  Models"(Michael Wimmer)
• "Rendering imperfections dust, scratches,
  aging,.." (Michael Wimmer)

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Topics

• "Stereoscopic Techniques in Computer Graphics"
  (Ralf Habel)
• Description of the different techniques
• Color codierung
• Shutter systems
• Polarisation systems
• Lenses / Fresnel systeme
• "High Dynamic Range Image Formats" (Ralf Habel)
• Problem description
• Compression, Accuracy issues
• RGBE, LogLuv, Log, floating point
• .hdr, .exr, .tiff, .dds, .raw (Kameras)
• Description, where is it used?, etc.
• Compression errors/artifacts
• Format features (z.B. Cubemaps, Channels)   

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Topics

• "Ambient occlusion" (Oliver Mattausch)
• "Interactive ray tracing" (Oliver Mattausch)
• "CG and Cultural Heritage" (Georg Zotti) (2
  students)
• Applications
• Data acquisition, e.g. Laser Range Scanner
• Architectural Maps ? 3D models
• Virtual reconstructions (VRec)
• Integration of VRec in Photos of present cities
  landscape terrain models (elevation maps,..)

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Topics

• "Physically correct BRDFs" (Andrea Weidlich)
• Cook-Torrance
• Ward
• further BRDFs with diffusion terms
• "Mathematical Basics for Monte Carlo Rendering
  Techniques" (Andrea Weidlich)
• Probability calculus / distributions, IS,...
• "Simulating, animating and rendering
  hair""Simulating, animating and rendering
  clothes""Rendering human skin" (Stefan Jeschke)

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LATEX

• Introductions
• "LATEX Kochbuch" (short introduction)
• www.uni-giessen.de/hrz/tex/cookbook/cookbook.html
  
• "The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX"
• osiris.sunderland.ac.uk/cs0pdu/pub/mat118/lshort2
  e/
• Platforms
• Linux TeTeX
• Mac TexShop
• Windows
• MikTex (20Mb, small)
• Good editor WinEdt
• Command line tools
• latex laTexSample.tex ? bibtex laTexSample ?
  latex laTexSample.tex ? latex laTexSample.tex (?
  dvips laTexSample.dvi)

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Seminar mit Bakkelaureat

• Fragen?
• www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/courses/Seminar/