Advanced Topics in Visual Computing –

Syllabus: Spring 2012

0368-6401

Daniel Cohen-Or

Thursday 16:00-19:00 (room 007, Schreiber)

The course covers advanced topics in computer graphics, image processing, and geometric modeling, as you see in table below. Most of the slides are available in pdf. If you are following this course and want to discuss its content, please don't hesitate to send me email (dcor@ tau.ac.il) and/or come and talk to me (Office 216).

Requirements: Final test (maybe home exam) (50%), Projects/Presentation (50%)

Week	Date	Lecture	Reading	---
	8 March	פורים
1	15 March	Introduction,  Coordinates	Highpass, Geometry-aware
2	22 March	Graphics Pipeline, Ray Tracing, Radiosity
3	29 March	Texture Synthesis,	Solid Quilting	Completion, Solid, , Layers
		פסח
		פסח
4	19 April	Solid, Wang. Sampling Theory and Antialiasing	Exact	---
	26 April	יום העצמאות
5	3 May	Surface Reconstruction, Co-Segmentation	Attractiveness	, PaintSelect
6	10 May	Registration, surface reconstuction2 , BIM		Spectral Analysis
7	17 May	Digital Surface Processing	Spectral Processing	Shape Matching Retrieval,
8	24 May	יום הסטודנט
	31 May	Department Retreat	---	---
9	7 June	schedule
8	8 June	Interactive Segmentation, Poisson Editing, Urban Reconstruction, Seam	MLS, 4fp	Saliency, Pose Oblivious
10	14 June	schedule
11	21 June	schedule
12	27 June	schedule
--	---	Introduction to Visibility, Image-Based Culling, From-region Visibility, iWires	Survey	exam
		Solving Large Problems	Seam Carving, Shape Analysis,	Morphing
		Mesh Compression (Entropy, 2D), Parameterization and Remeshing	Layers, Image Segmentation	ppss, pss
		Acceleration Techniques	Radiosity