186.162 Seminar (mit Bachelorarbeit) 186.175 Seminar aus Computergraphik

WS 2010

Organizer: Peter SikachevTeaching staff: Martin Haidacher, Peter Rautek, Andrej

Varchola, Dan Shao, Eduard Gröller

Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms

Vienna University of Technology

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Mission statement:

Get an idea how scientific work is carried out (in CG)

Practice to review literature and get familiar with a particular scientific topic

Selecting, reading and understanding

Summarizing and explaining (orally and written)

Comparing and discussing

Practice to give a talk

Experience critical scientific discussion

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processing.org

Open source

Programming language

Environment

Visual Artwork

Your task

Introduction to the

language and programming

environment

Overview of the community

Showcase projects    

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Shadows in Computer Graphics

Basic algorithms

shadow mapping

shadow volumes

Advanced algorithms

Percentage-close filtering

Variance shadow mapping

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Caustics, Light Shafts, God Rays

Caustics

Water

Reflected/refracted

Multiple bounces

Light shaftsDust

God rays

Underwater   

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Interactive Ambient Occlusion

Interactive methods

Methods with preprocessing

Precomputed radiance transfer   

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Vis. and Interaction of vy Large Data Sets

Size and resolution grow fast

High resolution => small piece of the data can be shown on the screen

Find and summarize methods which are able to visualize large data sets

and furthermore help to

interact with them for a

better investigation    

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3D Medical Volume Segmentation

Extract the region of interest, or anatomical organ

Important part of medical applications for analysis of anatomical data

   

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Aesthetic Measures in Visualization

How to define nice image?

Parameters that are importantcolors

lights

material

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Visibility Algorithms

How to modify the visibility of the objects?

Research in contextcut-away

opacity modulation

exploded views

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Tasks:Submit initial literature list

3 Lectures: „Wie halte ich einen Vortrag“ (Prof. Purgathofer)

„Forschung und wie sie funktioniert“ (Prof. Gröller)

„How to write a scientific paper“ (Prof. Wimmer)

Write draft of your thesis

Review a draft of a colleague

Give a presentation

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Talk

Use Institute’s PowerPoint template for presentations

20 + 5 minutes talk

In English

Active discussion participation is mandatory and will be graded

Reviewer has to begin the discussion

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Thesis

Seminar Thesis (186.175) : STAR 8-12 pages per student

Bachelor Thesis (186.162): book chapter 16-24 pages per student

In English

Format reports in the style of a scientific paperUse LaTeX

Students can work in groups of two

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Scientific discussion

Review of a paper:Draft of thesis one week before presentation

Everyone gets one draft to reviewTypical review form of a conference (Eurographics)

Help author to improve the manuscript

Reviewer begins discussion after the talk

RevisionImprove final submission according to reviewers comments

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Important Dates

Attend 3 lectures :Fr 22.10., 15:00, “Forschung und wie sie funktioniert”

Thu, 28.10., 13:15, “How to write a scientific paper”

Tue 14.12., 14:30, “Wie halte ich einen Vortrag”

Wed, 20.10., Deadline list of literature

Sun, 5.12., Deadline draft of your paper

Mon, 6.12., Receive paper for review

Wed, 15.12., Deadline review

Thu, 16.12., 8:00 - 16:00: Presentations

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Topics

Assignment

A very short introduction to LaTeX

LaTeX

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A very short introduction to LaTeX

„Programming“ a text document

Similarities to HTML

No WYSIWYG

Most convenient to use a LaTeX distribution and a LaTeX IDE (integrated development environment)

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A very short introduction to LaTeX

First install a LaTeX DistributionMiKTeX

Then a LaTeX IDETeXnicCenter

Texmaker

LEd

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A very short introduction to LaTeX

MiKTeX"Basic MiKTeX" Installer

Adds the MiKTeX \bin directory to the PATH

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A very short introduction to LaTeX

Extract the archive acmsiggraph.zipOpen a command line window

Go to the directory where template.tex isOn command line type: epstopdf sample.eps

In LaTeX IDE open template.texChange all sample.eps to sample.pdfProduce PDF document

In TeXnicCenter open template.texSelect LaTeX=>PS output profileProduce a PS documentConvert PS to PDF using Adobe Distiller

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A very short introduction to LaTeX

Work with 2 files:A .tex file for the text

A .bib file for the bibliography which is used by the citations command \cite

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Questions?

http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/courses/Seminar/index.html

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