Course Outline
CS 448C - Appearance Models for Computer Graphics and Vision
http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs448c-00-fall/
Fall, 2000
Handout #1 - Course Outline
Instructors
Pat Hanrahan
Gates Building, Room 370
(650) 723-8530
[email protected]
Henrik Wann Jensen
Gates Building, Room 362
(650) 725-3696
[email protected]
Jitendra Malik
Soda Hall, Room 725
(510) 642-7597
[email protected]
Steve Marschner
Gates Building, Room 362
(650) 723-7186
[email protected]
Teaching Assistant
Szymon Rusinkiewicz
Gates Building, Room 372
(650) 725-3708
[email protected]
Location
Gates Building, Room 392, Wednesdays 3-6 pm
Course Structure
The course will run for 10 weeks, and will meet once per week. Each 3-hour
meeting will be split into two parts, separated by a break. The first part of
each class will be a technical lecture, given by the course instructors. The
second half will be a discussion about a particular topic related to the
appearance of real-world objects, led by one or more students from the class.
The current schedule for the technical lectures is as follows:
- Overview of appearance
The BRDF
- Measurement I
- Measurement II
- Surface Reflection I: Rough surfaces, microfacet models, self-shadowing
- Surface Reflection II: Pitted surfaces
- Participating Media I
- Participating Media II
- Subsurface Scattering I: Kubelka-Munk, two-flux models
- Subsurface Scattering II: Hanrahan-Krueger model
Suggested topics for discussion and student presentation are:
- Ocean and water
- Scattering from biological structure, iridescence
- Polished surfaces, metals
- Leaves and plants
- Skin, hair and eyes
- Cloth, silk, velvet
- Snow, ice
- Paint, varnishes and glazes
- Rocks and stone
- Smoke and clouds
- Atmosphere
- Gems
Grading
The class may be taken for 1 or 3 credits. For 1 credit, each student will be
expected to scribe one lecture and to lead a discussion topic. In addition,
after each class students must write a short (10-line) description of possible
research ideas or projects based on the papers/topics discussed.
For 3 credits, a final project is also required.
Scribing
Each student will be expected to scribe (i.e. generate typeset lecture notes
for) one of the technical lectures. In addition, everyone must serve as a
designated reviewer for one other set of notes. The final notes will be
distributed to the class, and will be made available on the web.
Templates, procedures, sample notes, and other scribing resources are available at
http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs448c-00-fall/notes/scribing.html