Schedule
This schedule of topics is subject to change as the semester progresses. Before each class, each student must read the assigned reading for that lecture and, for readings marked with an asterisk, send me an email with a brief summary and two questions about the content. The lecture notes will be posted just before or shortly after lecture, and are intended as a reference after the fact.
The readings are listed in the bibliography with enough data to find them in the library or with Google Scholar. If you are a current student in the course you can follow the links to download PDF files from CMS.
Dates in orange are classes that have been rescheduled due to instructor travel. These classes meet on Mondays 4:30-5:45.
| date | topic | reading | reference | hw | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | Aug | Intro | slides | notes | ||
| 28 | Aug | Radiometry | *Preisendorfer 1976, Text 2.2–2.4 | slides | notes | |
| 30 | Aug | Surface reflection | Glassner 15.1-6, Text 2.5, Nicodemus et al. 1977 | slides | notes | |
| 4 | Sep | Microfacet reflection models | *Cook & Torrance 1981, Walter et al. 2007 | slides | notes | hw1 |
| 6 | Sep | Microfacet reflection models | slides | notes | ||
| 11 | Sep | Monte Carlo Integration | Text 3.1–3.5 | slides | notes | |
| 13 | Sep | slides | notes | |||
| 18 | Sep | Monte Carlo Integration | slides | notes | hw2 | |
| 20 | Sep | slides | notes | |||
| 24 | Sep | Direct Illumination | Shirley et al. 1996 | slides | notes | |
| 25 | Sep | Direct Illumination | *Veach & Guibas 1995 | slides | notes | hw3 |
| 27 | Sep | Surface Rendering Equation | *Kajiya 1986 | slides | notes | |
| 2 | Oct | slides | notes | |||
| 4 | Oct | slides | notes | |||
| 9 | Oct | —Fall break— | slides | notes | ||
| 11 | Oct | Path Tracing | slides | notes | ||
| 15 | Oct | Light Transport in a Medium | slides | notes | hw4 | |
| 16 | Oct | Light Transport in a Medium | slides | notes | ||
| 18 | Oct | Volume Rendering Equation | Cerezo et al. 2005 | slides | notes | |
| 22 | Oct | Volumetric Path Tracing | Kajiya & von Herzen | slides | notes | |
| 23 | Oct | Volumetric Path Tracing (comp photog preview) | slides | notes | ||
| 25 | Oct | Photon Mapping | *Jensen 1996, *Jensen & Christensen 1998 | slides | notes | |
| 29 | Oct | Volumetric diffusion and subsurface scattering | Jensen et al. 2001 | slides | notes | |
| 30 | Oct | Digital image capture | slides | notes | ||
| 1 | Nov | Digital image capture Edgar Velázquez-Armendáriz | *Debevec & Malik 1997, *Mitsunaga & Nayar 1999 | slides | notes | |
| 6 | Nov | Tone mapping Michael Lin | *Durand & Dorsey 2002 | slides | notes | |
| 8 | Nov | Tone mapping Yin Wang | *Fattal et al. 2002 | slides | notes | |
| 13 | Nov | Image registration and panoramas Changxi Zheng | *Szeliski & Shum 1997 | slides | notes | hw5 |
| 15 | Nov | Gradient domain compositing Brendan Holt | *Agarwala et al. 2004 | slides | notes | |
| 20 | Nov | Multi-view geometry David Kaplan | *Agarwala 2007 | slides | notes | |
| 22 | Nov | —Thanksgiving— | slides | notes | ||
| 27 | Nov | Wenzel Jakob Todd Harvey | *Levoy & Hanrahan 1996, *Gortler et al. 1996, *Ng et al. 2005 | slides | notes | |
| 29 | Nov | Light fields Don Holden | *Levoy et al. 2006 | slides | notes | |
| 11 | Dec | Final Project Presentations (9am) | slides | notes | ||