CS348a Class Schedule, Winter Quarter 2020-21
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Monday |
Wednesday |
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January 11 |
January 13 |
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Class Introduction; Homogeneous Coordinates; The Projective Plane and 3-Space Slides: Lecture Slides Reading: N08, N15, N16; Chapters 1 and 2 of Stolfi's thesis |
Oriented Projective Geometry; Euclidean, Affine and Projective Transformations; Matrix Representations Slides: Lecture Slides |
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January 18 |
January 20 |
Martin Luther King, Jr., Day (holiday, no classes) |
Rotations and Quaternions Homework 1 out Slides: Lecture Slides |
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January 25 |
January 27 |
Shape Modeling: Parametric and Implicit Representations; Classification of Parametric Cubics Slides: Lecture Slides Reading: N18 (Section 5), N19, N20; for parametric/implicit see also the Hoffmann report/slides |
Polar Forms of Polynomials Slides: Lecture Slides |
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February 01 |
February 03 |
Derivatives and Polar Forms; Continuity Constraints Slides: Lecture Slides |
Splines and B-Splines Homework 1 due; Homework 2 out Slides: Lecture Slides |
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February 08 |
February 10 |
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Rational Curves Slides: Lecture Slides Reading: N25 |
Subdivision Curves Slides: Reading: Siggraph Notes |
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February 15 |
February 17 |
Presidents' Day (holiday, no classes) |
Tensor-Product and Total Degree Parametric Surfaces Homework 2 due; Homework 3 out Slides: Lecture Slides |
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February 22 |
February 24 |
Triangle Meshes and their Representation; the Quad-Edge Data Structure Slides: Lecture Slides
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Learned Shape Representations Slides: Lecture Slides Reading: Voxel GAN, Point Cloud GAN, Voxel VAE, Implicit Field Generative Network |
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March 01 |
March 03 |
Introduction to Shape Acquisition and Geometry Processing Slides: Lecture Slides Reading: Normal Estimation, Marching Cubes |
Homework 4 out In-class Midterm |
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March 08 |
March 10 |
Scan Alignment and Registration; Surface Matching Homework 3 due Slides: Lecture Slides Reading: BeslMcKay, ChenMedioni, PottmanHofer, MitraEtAl
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Mesh Smoothing, Remeshing, Parametrization Slides: Lecture Slides Reading: See slides |
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March 15 |
March 17 |
Mesh Simplification Slides: Lecture Slides Reading: Quadrics Simplification, with Color Info |
Neural Implicit Formulations; Course Summary Homework 4 due on Fri, March 19 no late days Slides: Lecture Slides |