CMSC828Z : 3D Photography and Inverse Rendering


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Date	Topic	Assignments
828Z Syllabus
This syllabus lines out the topics of the lectures and the assignments for any given week. Note that the assignments contain readings and projects to prepare for the class and as well as to deepen understanding following the class. The Lecture notes (click on lecture topic) can be accessed from the umd.edu domain.
Sept.6th,2002	Introduction to 3D Photography and Inverse Rendering	Read the article Z. Zhang. Image-based geometrically correct photorealistic scene/object modelling: A review. In Proc. 3rd ACCV, pages 340-349, 1998. Take a look at the webpage Spatio-temporal Reconstruction of Human Head using Multi-resolution Surfaces and read the accompanying paper.
Sept.13th,2002	The Space of Light Rays	Read the following three papers E H. Adelson and J. R. Bergen. The plenoptic function and the elements of early vision. In M. Landy and J. A. Movshon, editors, Computational Models of Visual Processing, pages 3-20. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1991. S. Gortler, R. Grzeszczuk, R. Szeliski, and M. Cohen. The lumigraph. M. Levoy and P. Hanrahan. Light field rendering. In Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH, pages 161-170, 1996. Download the program VideoCube from this webpage and use it to explore this translational image sequence and other AVI sequences of your choice.
Sept.20th,2002	Multi-view Geometry, Camera Calibration and Structure from Motion	Please read the following tutorials to prepare for the class Projective Geometry for Image Analysis - A Tutorial given by Roger Mohr and Bill Triggs Stan Birchfield. An introduction to projective geometry (for computer vision). published on the web.
Sept.27th,2002	Shape Representations for World Objects: B-Spline and Subdivision Surfaces	Please read the following introduction to prepare for the class Andreas Hubeli and Markus Gross. A survey of surface representations for geometric modeling. Technical Report 335, ETH Zürich, Institute of Scientific Computing, March 2000.
Oct.4th,2002	Shape Representations for World Objects: Implicit Surfaces	Please read the following introduction to prepare for the class Jules Bloomenthal. Implicit surfaces. In Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology. Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, NY, 2002. to appear.
Oct.11th,2002	Motion and Animation of Objects	Read the paper S. Vedula, S. Baker, P. Rander, R. Collins, and T. Kanade. Three-dimensional scene flow. In Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision, Corfu,Greece, September 1999. Explore the world of animation by reading the web book Computer Animation: Algorithms and Techniques by Rick Parent
Oct.18th,2002	Surface Properties of Objects and Illumination	For further information see XiaoDong He, Kenneth E. Torrance, François Sillion, and Donald P. Greenberg. A comprehensive physical model for light reflection. Computer Graphics, 25(4), August 1991. Proceedings SIGGRAPH '91 in Las Vegas (USA). R. Ramamoorthi and P. Hanrahan. A signal-processing framework for inverse rendering. In Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH, 2001.
Oct.25th,2002	Image Formation and Camera Design	Please read the following papers to prepare for the class: S. Battiato and M. Mancuso. An introduction to the digital still camera technology. ST Journal of System Research - Special Issue on Image Processing for Digital Still Camera, 2(2), 2001. Craig Kolb, Don Mitchell, and Pat Hanrahan. A realistic camera model for computer graphics. In Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH, pages 317-324, 1995.
Nov.1st,2002	Techniques for Shape Recovery: Stereo and Space Carving	Please read the following papers to prepare for the class: K. N. Kutulakos and S. M. Seitz. A theory of shape by space carving. International Journal of Computer Vision, 38:199-218, 2000. Greg Slabaugh, W.Bruce Culbertson, Thomas. Malzbender, and Ron Shafer. A survey of methods for volumetric scene reconstruction from photographs. In International Workshop on Volume Graphics, 2001. Olivier Faugeras and Renaud Keriven. Variational principles, surface evolution, pde's, level set methods and the stereo problem. Technical Report RR-3021, INRIA- Sophia Antipolis, October 1996.
Nov.8th,2002	Shape from a Single Camera: Structure from Motion	For further information read the following papers: P. Baker, R. Pless, C. Fermuller, and Y. Aloimonos. A spherical eye from multiple cameras (makes better models of the world). In Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2001. (PDF, 419116 bytes) M. Irani and P. Anandan. All about direct methods. In W. Triggs, A. Zisserman, and R. Szeliski, editors, International Workshop on Vision Algorithms, pages 278-295, 1999. P. H. S. Torr and A Zisserman. Feature based methods for structure and motion estimation. In W. Triggs, A. Zisserman, and R. Szeliski, editors, International Workshop on Vision Algorithms, pages 278-295, 1999.
Nov.15th,2002	Techniques for Motion Estimation: Optical Flow and Scene Flow, Model-based Motion Estimation	Please read the following papers to prepare for class: J.L. Barron, D.J. Fleet, and S. Beauchemin. Performance of optical flow techniques. International Journal of Computer Vision, 12(1):43-77, 1994. R. L. Carceroni and K. Kutulakos. Multi-view scene capture by surfel sampling: From video streams to non-rigid 3d motion, shape, and reflectance. In Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision, June 2001. S. Vedula, S. Baker, P. Rander, R. Collins, and T. Kanade. Three-dimensional scene flow. In Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision, Corfu,Greece, September 1999.
Nov.22nd,2002	Recovery of Illumination and Surface Properties	Please read the following papers to prepare for class: R. Basri and D. Jacobs. Lambertian reflectance and linear subspaces. Technical report, NEC Research Institute Technical Report 2000-172R, Weizmann Institute of Science Technical Report MCS00-21, 2000. (Req) R. Ramamoorthi and P. Hanrahan. A signal-processing framework for inverse rendering. In Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH, 2001. Y. Yu, P. Debevec, J. Malik, and T. Hawkins. Inverse global illumination: Recovering reflectance models of real scenes from photographs.
Nov.29th,2002	Thanksgiving Weekend : No Class!
Dec.6th,2002	Presentation and Discussion of Class Projects
Dec.13th,2002	Presentation and Discussion of Class Projects

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