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Teaching

Teaching Winter Semester 2002/03

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• Vorlesung Geometric Modeling (WS 2002/2003)
• Seminar Computer Graphics (WS 2002/2003)
• Diplomarbeiten, Fopras

• Seminar Computer Graphics in the Movies (SoSe 2002)
• Vorlesung Computer Graphics II (SoSe 2002)
  (page maintained by the Computer Graphics Group at Saarland University)
• Vorlesung Computergraphik (WS 2001/2002)

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Geometric Modeling

Hans-Peter Seidel and Alexander Belyaev

Winter Semester 2002/2003

(Stammvorlesung theoretische Informatik)

Recent progress in Geometric Modeling has been stimulated by numerous applications in engineering and multimedia. The purpose of the course is to give an introduction to classical and modern mathematical techniques employed in Geometric Modeling and to demonstrate how these techniques are useful for the design and manufacture of engineering objects of high quality, entertainment and multimedia applications. The course will also serve as a starting point for those students who wish to use Geometric Modeling concepts and ideas in their own research. Topics to be covered include shape interpolation and approximation with piecewise polynomial curves and surfaces, curvature-based shape interrogation, mesh processing, and multiresolution modeling.

Content:

• Polynomial Curves
• Bezier and Rational Bezier Curves
• B-splines, NURBS
• Tensor Product Surfaces
• Shape Interrogation Methods
• Mesh Processing
• Multiresolution Modeling

Course Objectives:

• Learning working knowledge of theoretical and practical methods for solving geometric modeling problems on a computer.

Time and Place:

• Monday and Thursday, 11-13
• HS III, Geb. 45

Instructors:

• Lecturers: Hans-Peter Seidel and Alexander Belyaev
• Teaching Assistant: Christian Rössl

Exercise course:

• Tuesday 14, MPI (Geb. 46), R022 (Christian Rössl)
• Tuesday 16, MPI (Geb. 46), R023 (Ioannis Ivrissimtzis)
• Wednesday 14, MPI (Geb. 46), R023 (Holger Theisel)
• Information on assigments as available on the course web page.

Grading policy:

• Weekly Assignments (60%)
• Final Exam (40%)

Prerequisits:

• none

Remarks:

• First lecture: Thursday, October 24th, 2002
• The lectures will be given in English
• The course is a part of Stammvorlesung Theoretische Informatik
• Possible followups: seminars, special lectures ("Spezialvorlesungen"), FoPras in computer graphics.

More information

Visit the Course web page.

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Seminar Computer Graphics

Hans-Peter Seidel and Researchers from AG4

Winter Semester 2002/2003

This seminar will discuss topics related to current research areas in computer graphics.

Time and Place:

• Meetings will be held on Thursday afternoon at 4 pm s.t. (4 pm sharp) in room 019 in the MPI.

Instructors:

• Hans-Peter Seidel and Researchers from AG4

Schedule

• December 5th:
  Multi-View Scene Capture by Surfel Sampling: From Video Streams to Non-Rigid 3D Motion, Shape & Reflectance
  Speaker: Jeff Schöner, Adviser: Jochen Lang

• December 12th:
  Texture Synthesis
  Speaker: Hendrik Kriebel, Adviser: Hendrik Lensch

• December 19th:
  

  Talk on December 19th has been cancelled and will now be given on February 6th.

• January 9th:
  Motion Blur
  Speaker: Polina Kondratienva, Adviser: Karol Myszkowski

• January 16th:
  A Tone Mapping Algorithm for High Contrast Images
  Speaker: Akiko Yoshida, Adviser: Karol Myszkowski

• January 23rd:
  Surface reconstruction from volume data
  Speaker: Heiko Friedrich, Adviser: Christian Rössl

• January 30th:
  

  Talk on January 30th has been cancelled and will now be given on February 13th.

• February 6th:
  Shadow Carving
  Speaker: Jumamurat Bayjanov, Adviser: Christian Theobalt

  3D Model and Appearance Acquistion
  Speaker: Daniel Olejnik, Adviser: Hendrik Lensch

• February 13th:
  Characterizing Digital Image Acquisition Devices
  Speaker: Waqar Saleem, Adviser: Michael Goesele

  Construction of low distortion texture maps
  Speaker: Thomas Annen, Adviser: Christian Rössl