Lior Shapira

I’m teaching introductory computer graphics again in the fall semester next year, I’ve prepared an introductory page (as always) which can be reached by clicking the banner below…

Spring semester is ending (wiping sweat from brow) and summer is rolling around. And when I say rolling I mean rolling over me with its 35c and 100% humidity… excellent!

Its been a nice semester, I think both my courses went quite well. I was very pleased with the quality of work the students of my graphics course submitted (Examples here and here), and my Java students were also a nice bunch of people. Publication-wise I’m also quite happy. The paper I worked on with Shai Avidan at Adobe has been accepted to ICCV09 (Hurrah!). You can see the project page, it contains some interesting links in addition to the paper.

This summer I have two interesting projects to complete (all very hush hush of course), and lots of going to the beach with Shachar

The fall semester is coming to a close and soon the bidding will begin on the spring semester courses. This semester I’m teaching Computer Graphics again. Last year I taught it for the first time and it was a lot of fun, forced me to re-learn a few things. For the students it was pretty damn hard, but I think there was a lot to be learned and I was very happy with the projects students created.

What will be different this time around?

• The semester is longer (last year there was a faculty strike) so I’m probably going to beef up the image processing and animation section (last year I had to skip animation).
• Last year students implemented three projects: Seam Carving, a Ray Tracer and a cute QBert 3D game. This year I have new fiendish ideas which I’ll reveal in due time.
• Last year, partly due to the strike I was very flexible and accommodating with the deadlines. This year I’m going to have to be more strict. Project submission dates will be published well in advance and they will be fixed.