Department of Computer Science
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

CS580: Computer Graphics (S13)

Focus on Rendering

Instructor: Sung-eui Yoon

When and where: 4:00-5:15pm on Tues. and Thur. at Room 3444 (5th class room in 3rd floor at CS building)

First class: Mar-5 (Tue.) (please come to first class for more information)

Textbook: Course Notes and In-Class Handouts

Class Noah board

Outline

Course overview

Fig. 1, Photo-realistic image generated by ray tracing method. (Image excerpted from PovRay homepage)

Photo-realistic rendering has been one of major topics in the fields of computer graphics and visualization. Various global illumination methods have been developed to achieve such photo-realistic rendering given a model. Such methods have been widely used in various applications including movies, product designs, and virtual prototyping. However, we are still unable to provide interactive performance for global illuminations producing photo-realistic rendering results.

In this class, we will study basic global illumination methods as well as basic concepts (e.g., texture, lighting, shading) of computer graphics. In addition, we will discuss recent rendering techniques for complex scenes and interactive techniques for various applications.

Lecture schedule (subject to change)

# of lecture, date	Topics and slides	Related material(s)	Update time and notice
Mar - 5	Overview on the course and course policy
Mar - 7	Classic rendering pipeline
Mar - 12	No class due to the health problem of the instructor
Mar - 14 Mar - 19	Ray tracing	PA1 and its hints
Mar - 21	No class (I will attend ACM I3D 2013 as a paper co-chair)
Mar - 26 Mar - 28	Radiosity
Apr - 2 Apr - 4 Apr - 9	Radiometry	HW1 Appendix1 Radimetry talk: Part 1 Radimetry talk: Part 2 Radimetry talk: Part 3 Radimetry talk: Part 4
Apr - 11	Rendering equation
Apr - 16	Invited talk by Prof. Miguel Otaduy
Apr - 18	Monte Carlo integration
Apr - 23	Mid-term exam
Apr - 25	No class because of the mid-term exam week
Apr - 30 May - 2	Monte Carlo ray tracing Part I, Part II	PA2, its hints, and additional info.
May - 7	Mid-term project presentations
Apr - 9 Apr - 14 Apr - 16	Part III,
May - 21	Student presentation 1 ( MH, JB)
May - 23	Student presentation 2 ( SM, GJ)
May - 28	Student presentation 3 (GY, GH)
May - 30	Student presentation 4 ( MB, HS)
June - 4	Student presentation 5 (SW, JH)
June - 11 June - 13	Final project presentations (extended class)

Student presentations and reports

Student presentations and projects at 2010

Student presentations and projects at 2008

Student projects at 2007

For your presentations, please use the this powerpoint template.

Additional reference materials and links

SIGGRAPH course notes

Public software:

Paper search:

Acknowledgements: The course materials are built upon graduate courses offered at UNC-Chapel Hill and Prof. Kavita Bala's course slides. Particularly, I'd like to thank Kavita Bala; some of slides are directly excerpted from her slides on advanced computer graphics. Thank you so much!

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