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Link: Visual Computing, part 2, held by Prof. Buhmann

Schedule Visual Computing SS07


Topic Lecture
Exercise
Type Handout Duration
Introduction – graphics pipeline-API-architecture March 20/21 none
Colors and color models, perception March 27/28 Practice: OpenGL rendering. March 27 1 week
Transformations, projections, camera models April 03/04 (held by DC) Theory: Light and colors. April 03 1 week
Lighting, reflection, shading models, ray tracing April 10/11 Practice: Trackball using Quaternions. April 10 1 week
Texturing and aliasing, parametrization
Attention: There will be an additional lecture on April 17, 14:15-16:00, in HG F3
April 17/17 Practice: Multipass rendering. April 17 1 week
Sampling theorem, Fourier transform, convolution, LTI April 18 / May 02 Theory: Parametrization, Fourier April 24 2 weeks
Linear filtering (low pass, high pass, band pass), Laplace pyramides, recursive filtering
Attention: There will be an additional lecture on May 03, 09:15-10:00, in HG E3
(May 01 no lecture - Tag der Arbeit) May 02/03 none
Image processing and Computer Vision, Convolution, Fourier transform, Linear Shift invariant Systems May 08/09 Practice: Mipmaps (only Tuesday) May 08 1 week
Image Restoration, Wiener Filter, A Primer on Variational Calculus May 15/16 - The lecture on Wednesday will take place! Practice May 15 1 week
Bayes rules, optimal classifiers May 22/23 Theory May 22 1 week
Linear classifiers, support vector machines May 29/30 Practice May 29 1 week
Dimensionality reduction, PCA, ICA, local linear embedding June 05/06 Theory June 05 1 week
Clustering – K-means, C-means, EM - compression June 12/13 Practice June 12 1 week
MRF models, Bayes nets June 19/20 none