Seminar: Parallel Visual Computing

Seminar: Parallel Visual Computing (Winter Semester 2012/2013)

News:

2013-01-18: Assignment 7 PDF, code and slides online
2012-22-12: Assignment 6 PDF, code and slides online
2012-07-12: Assignment 5 PDF, code and slides online
2012-11-12: Assignment 4 PDF and code online
2012-11-12: Assignment 3 code updated
2012-11-09: OpenMP slides online
2012-11-09: Assignment 3 online
2012-10-26: Assignment 2 online
2012-10-18: Intro slides online
2012-10-18: Programming framework online

This seminar covers the hands-on use of parallel hardware (GPUs) for visual computing, i.e.,

Computer vision (e.g., from simple image operations to classification)
Computer graphics (e.g., advanced shading)
Scientific computing (e.g., equation solving)

The target audience are students in computer science or related fields. Good C++ programming skills, basic knowledge about 3D geometry, image processing, and computer graphics are required. This seminar will be based on hands-on parallel programming:

Every one week, a tutor will present a problem with an interesting parallel solution.
On the same day there will be a programming assignment on the topic.
Teams of two people will work on this assignment
Every team demos their solution and we discuss

Tentative schedule:

18.10.2012		Introduction	All

25.10.2012	Lecture	Single-instruction, multiple-data (SIMD)	Ivo Ihrke
01.11.2012	Assignment	Basic image filtering (C++, SSE intrinsics)	Ivo Ihrke

08.11.2012	Lecture	Multi-core (CPU)	Mario Fritz
15.11.2012	Assignment	Scale-space and interest points (C++, OpenMP)	Mario Fritz

22.11.2012	Lecture	OpenGL, Framework, Shader (GPU)	Tobias Ritschel
29.11.2012	Assignment	Timing, Joint bilateral Upsampling (C++, GLSL)	Tobias Ritschel

06.12.2012	Lecture	Prefix scan, Scattering (GPU)	Tobias Ritschel
13.12.2012	Assignment	Histograms, Voronoi, HistoPyramids (C++, GLSL)	Tobias Ritschel

20.12.2012	Lecture	Fine-grained parallelism, variational optical flow (GPU/CUDA)	Ivo Ihrke
10.01.2013	Assignment	PDE solving, hierarchical Horn & Schunck optical flow (C++, CUDA)	Ivo Ihrke

17.01.2013	Lecture	GPU vision applications: Classifiers	Mario Fritz
24.01.2013	Assignment	Histogram of Gradients-detecor (C++, CUDA)	Mario Fritz

31.01.2013		Outlook	All

The seminar language is English.

The number of people is limited to 8 (eight) particpants. If their are more than 8 registrations, we select the participants on the first date (18. October).

Time:	Thursday, 14:00-16:00
First seminar:	Thursday, Octobre 18, 2012
Room:	Building E1.7 (Cluster building), Room 0.01
Registration:	Please subscribe to this seminar by sending an email with your 1.) name, 2.) matriculation number, 3.) current semester, 4.) study (CS or VC?) and 4.) email address to Ivo Ihrke.
HISPOS:	Course No. 67344