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Geometric Algorithms for Virtual Worlds CS468, Winter 2007-08 Prof. Vladlen Koltun, Stanford University Gates B12, Mondays and Wednesdays, 2:15 - 3:30 pm |
| Date: | Wednesday, January 9 |
| Topic: |
Introduction and Orientation |
| Date: | Monday, January 14 |
| Topic: | Visibility |
| Source Materials: |
Visibility
Preprocessing for Interactive Walkthroughs Seth Teller, Carlo Sequin SIGGRAPH 1991 |
| Speaker: | Ewen Cheslack-Postava (slides) |
| Date: | Wednesday, January 16 |
| Topic: | Visibility |
| Source Materials: |
Adaptive Display
Algorithm for Interactive Frame Rates During
Visualization of Complex Virtual Environments Thomas Funkhouser, Carlo Sequin SIGGRAPH 1993 |
| Speaker: | Ewen Cheslack-Postava (slides) |
| Date: | Monday, January 21 |
| Martin Luther King Jr. Day, no class | |
| Date: | Wednesday, January 23 |
| Topic: | Visibility |
| Source Materials: |
Ray Space Factorization for From-Region Visibility Tommer Leyvand, Olga Sorkine, Daniel Cohen-Or SIGGRAPH 2003 |
| Speaker: | Alexandre Mattos (slides) |
| Date: | Monday, January 28 |
| Topic: | Visibility |
| Source Materials: |
Guided Visibility Sampling Peter Wonka et al. SIGGRAPH 2006 |
| Speaker: | Daniel Horn (slides) |
| Date: | Wednesday, January 30 |
| Topic: | Image-based Techniques |
| Source Materials: |
Hierarchical
Image Caching for Accelerated Walkthroughs of Complex
Environments Jonathan Shade et al. SIGGRAPH 1996 A Three Dimensional Image Cache for Virtual Reality Gernot Schaufler, Wolfgang Stuerzlinger Eurographics 1996 |
| Speaker: | Michael Chung (slides) |
| Date: | Monday, February 4 |
| Topic: | Image-based Techniques |
| Source Materials: |
Layered Depth Images Jonathan Shade et al. SIGGRAPH 1998 LDI Tree: A Hierarchical Representation for Image-Based Rendering Chun Chang, Gary Bishop, Anselmo Lastra SIGGRAPH 1999 |
| Speaker: | Siddhartha Chaudhuri (slides) |
| Date: | Wednesday, February 6 |
| Topic: | Image-based Techniques |
| Source Materials: |
Automatic Image Placement to Provide a Guaranteed Frame Rate Daniel Aliaga, Anselmo Lastra SIGGRAPH 1999 |
| Speaker: | Alexandre Mattos (slides) |
| Date: | Monday, February 11 |
| Topic: | Simplification |
| Source Materials: |
Re-Tiling Polygonal Surfaces Greg Turk SIGGRAPH 1992 Decimation of Triangle Meshes William Schroeder, Jonathan Zarge, William Lorenson SIGGRAPH 1992 |
| Speaker: | Sergey Levine (slides) |
| Date: | Wednesday, February 13 |
| Topic: | Simplification |
| Source Materials: |
Progressive Meshes Hugues Hoppe SIGGRAPH 1996 Efficient Implementation of Progressive Meshes Hugues Hoppe Computers and Graphics 1998 |
| Speaker: | TongKe Xue (slides) |
| Date: | Monday, February 18 |
| Presidents' Day, no class | |
| Date: | Wednesday, February 20 |
| Topic: | Simplification |
| Source Materials: |
Progressive Simplicial Complexes Jovan Popovic, Hugues Hoppe SIGGRAPH 1997 View-Dependent Refinement of Progressive Meshes Hugues Hoppe SIGGRAPH 1997 |
| Speaker: | Ranjitha Kumar (slides) |
| Date: | Monday, February 25 |
| Topic: | Simplification |
| Source Materials: |
Surface
Simplification Using Quadric Error Metrics Michael Garland, Paul Heckbert SIGGRAPH 1997 |
| Speaker: | Jerry Talton (slides) |
| Date: | Wednesday, February 27 |
| Topic: | Simplification |
| Source Materials: |
Variational Shape Approximation David Cohen-Steiner, Pierre Alliez, Mathieu Desbrun SIGGRAPH 2004 |
| Speaker: | Jerry Talton (slides) |
| Date: | Monday, March 3 |
| Topic: | Compression |
| Source Materials: |
Geometry Compression Michael Deering SIGGRAPH 1995 |
| Speaker: | Michael Chung (slides) |
| Date: | Wednesday, March 5 |
| Topic: | Compression |
| Source Materials: |
Geometric Compression Through Topological Surgery Gabriel Taubin, Jarek Rossignac TOG 1998 Triangle Mesh Compression Costa Touma, Craig Gotsman Graphics Interface 1998 |
| Speaker: | Daniel Horn (slides) |
| Date: | Monday, March 10 |
| Topic: | Compression |
| Source Materials: |
Edgebreaker: Connectivity Compression for Triangle Meshes Jarek Rossignac TVCG 1999 |
| Speaker: | Siddhartha Chaudhuri (slides) |
| Date: | Wednesday, March 12 |
| Topic: | Compression |
| Source Materials: |
Spectral Compression of Mesh Geometry Zachi Karni, Craig Gotsman SIGGRAPH 2000 |
| Speaker: | Ranjitha Kumar (slides) |