ECSE 4969/6969 Calendar

Note: the schedule is subject to change. Check this page frequently to make sure you're up to date!

Useful computer vision and graphics resources:

• Google Scholar is the first place to look if you know the author/title.
• IEEE Explore will have all CVPR/ICCV papers.
• Tim Rowley's page contains links to almost every SIGGRAPH and computer-graphics-related paper (including project/video pages from the authors, etc.)
• The Computer Vision Resource contains links to papers from many recent computer-vision-related conferences.

Day	Topic	Readings
Mon Aug 25	Introduction	Syllabus and Expectations Motivating video clips Sample class projects from previous years
Thu Aug 28	Visual Effects	S. McClean, The Bastard Spawn: Hollywood Computer-Generated-Effects Movies. Chapter 1 of Digital Storytelling: The Narrative Power of Visual Effects in Film. [paper] D. Roble, Computer Vision In Visual Effects. Chapter 7 of Emerging Topics in Computer Vision, edited by G. Medioni and S.B. Kang. [paper] S. McClean, I'm Sorry Dave, I'm Afraid I Can't Do That: The Technology of Digital Visual Effects. Chapter 3 of Digital Storytelling: The Narrative Power of Visual Effects in Film. [paper] C. Jarrett, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. From Cinefex, vol. 113. [paper]
Mon Sep 1	none	No class (Labor Day)
Thu Sep 4	Tiling	A. Hausner, Simulating Decorative Mosaics, SIGGRAPH 2001. [paper] [web] [Jennifer] A. Klein, P. Sloan, A. Finkelstein, and M. Cohen, Stylized Video Cubes, SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation, 2002. [paper] [Blair]
Mon Sep 8	DVDs / Project Development	Radke out of town (ICDSC 2008) What Dreams May Come clips A Scanner Darkly clips
Thu Sep 11	DVDs / Project Development	Radke out of town (ICDSC 2008) Stranger than Fiction clips Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind clips
Mon Sep 15	Non-Photorealistic Rendering	A. Hertzmann, Painterly Rendering with Curved Brush Strokes of Multiple Sizes, SIGGRAPH 1998. [paper] [web] [Dan] A. Hertzmann, C. Jacobs, N. Oliver, B. Curless, and D. Salesin, Image Analogies, SIGGRAPH 2001. [paper] [web] [Michael]
Thu Sep 18	Illustration	H. Kang, S. Leey, and C. K. Chuiz, Coherent Line Drawing, NPAR 2007. [paper] [project page] [Jason] V. Ostromoukhov, Digital Facial Engraving. SIGGRAPH 1999. [paper] [Brian]
Mon Sep 22	Inpainting Shadow Removal	A. Criminisi, P. Perez, and K. Toyama, Object Removal by Examplar-Based Inpainting, CVPR 2003. [paper] [Brian] E. Arbel and H. Hel-Or, Texture-Preserving Shadow Removal in Color Images Containing Curved Surfaces, CVPR 2007. [paper] [Chris]
Thu Sep 25	Matting	Y. Chuang, B. Curless, D. Salesin, and R. Szeliski, A Bayesian Approach to Digital Matting, CVPR 2001. [paper] [web] [Jim] A. Levin, A. Rav-Acha, D. Lischinski, Spectral Matting, CVPR 2007. [paper] [web] [Cory] Project proposals due
Mon Sep 29	Seam Carving	S. Avidan and A. Shamir, Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing, SIGGRAPH 2007. [paper] [video] [Brian] M. Rubinstein, A. Shamir, and S. Avidan, Improved Seam Carving for Video Retargeting, SIGGRAPH 2008. [paper] [project page] [Jenn]
Thu Oct 2	Image Editing	D. Simakov, Y. Caspi, E. Shechtman, and M. Irani, Summarizing Visual Data Using Bidirectional Similarity, CVPR 2008. [paper] [project page] [Chris] T. Cho, M. Butman, S. Avidan, and W. Freeman, The Patch Transform and its Applications to Image Editing, CVPR 2008. [paper] [Project page] [Jason]
Mon Oct 6	Features I	J. Shi and C. Tomasi, Good Features to Track, CVPR 1994, pp. 593-600. [paper] [Michael] M. Fiala, ARTag, a Fiducial Marker System Using Digital Techniques, CVPR 2005. [paper] [Dan]
Thu Oct 9	Features and Mosaics	M. Brown, R. Szeliski, and S. Winder, Multi-Image Matching using Multi-Scale Oriented Patches, CVPR 2005. [paper] [Cory] A. Klein, T. Grant, A. Finkelstein, and M. Cohen, Video Mosaics, NPAR 2002. [paper] [Blair]
Mon Oct 13	none	No class
Tue Oct 14	EMPAC	EMPAC grand opening (class trip)
Thu Oct 16	Panoramas	D. Wood, A. Finkelstein, J. Hughes, C. Thayer, and D. Salesin, Multiperspective Panoramas for Cel Animation, SIGGRAPH 1997. [paper] [Jim] J. Kopf, M. Uyttendaele, O. Deussen, and M. Cohen, Capturing and Viewing Gigapixel Images, SIGGRAPH 2007. [paper] [web] [Jenn]
Mon Oct 20	Morphing and View Synthesis	T. Beier and S. Neely, Feature-Based Image Metamorphosis, SIGGRAPH 1992. [paper] [Blair] S. Seitz and C. Dyer, View Morphing, SIGGRAPH 1996. [paper] [web] [Chris]
Thu Oct 23	DVDs / Project Development	Radke out of town (CSSG Session 2) Black and White clip Terminator 2 clips The One clips
Mon Oct 27	Initial project presentations
Thu Oct 30	DVDs / Project Development	Radke out of town (CenSSIS/ALERT) Terminator 3 clips The Works of Director Michel Gondry clips
Mon Nov 3	Image/Video Manipulation	M. Alexa, D. Cohen-Or, and D. Levin, As-Rigid-as-Possible Shape Interpolation, SIGGRAPH 2000. [paper] [Michael] P. Sand and S. Teller, Video Matching, SIGGRAPH 2004. [paper] [web] [Jason]
Thu Nov 6	Motion Capture and Editing	Z. Popović and A. Witkin, Physically-Based Motion Transformation, SIGGRAPH 1999. [paper] [web] [Dan] K. Pullen and C. Bregler, Motion Capture Assisted Animation: Texturing and Synthesis, SIGGRAPH 2002. [paper] [Cory]
Mon Nov 10	De-Shaking Motion Capture	R. Fergus, B. Singh, A. Hertzmann, S. T. Roweis, and W. T. Freeman, Removing Camera Shake From A Single Photograph, SIGGRAPH 2006. [paper] [Project page] [Jim] The Two Towers clips The Return of the King clips
Thu Nov 13	Camera Calibration Epipolar Geometry	R. Radke, Multiview Geometry for Camera Networks, Book chapter to appear in Multi-Camera Networks: Concepts and Applications, Elsevier 2008. [paper] [Radke] Project progress reports due
Mon Nov 17	Structure from Motion Matchmoving Demo	R. Radke, Multiview Geometry for Camera Networks, Book chapter to appear in Multi-Camera Networks: Concepts and Applications, Elsevier 2008. [paper] [Radke]
Thu Nov 20	Novel Methods of Image Acquisition	Matthias B. Hullin, Martin Fuchs, Ivo Ihrke, Hans-Peter Seidel, and Hendrik P. A. Lensch, Fluorescent Immersion Range Scanning, SIGGRAPH 2008. [paper] [Project page] [Jim] Chia-Kai Liang, Tai-Hsu Lin, Bing-Yi Wong, Chi Liu, and Homer Chen, Programmable Aperture Photography: Multiplexed Light Field Acquisition, SIGGRAPH 2008. [paper] [Project page] [Jenn]
Mon Nov 24	DVDs / Project Development	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest clips Cloverfield clips Children of Men clips
Thu Nov 27	none	No class- Thanksgiving
Mon Dec 1	Final Project Presentations
Thu Dec 4	Final Project Presentations