1. Advanced Computer Graphics Introduction
Erik Sintorn –
Advanced Computer Graphics, Erik Sintorn

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Attendance
Check the or add if not present
Also, add your name if not on my list
Student Representatives
Randomly chosen:
BJÖRN BERGQVIST
MAIJA HAPPONEN
ERIK HERMANSSON
FREJ KARLSSON
NEBOJSA MIHAJLOVIC
Will meet halfway through course
And after course
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Introduction
Requirements:
You should have read TDA361 or similar.
In this course we dive deeper into things we only touched upon in that course.
Schedule
All classes are at 15:15 on Tuesdays.
Before exam week: EB (this room) After exam week: EL43 (linsen)
See TimeEdit if you forget.
General information
Homepage:
80% attendance compulsory
Grades 3-5 (only project is graded)
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Introduction
Three main components of course
Introductory Lectures
Student Presentation Seminars
Project
Advanced Computer Graphics, Erik Sintorn

5. Introductory Lectures
Week 1-5 I will give lectures where we dive deep into fundamental Computer Graphics subjects.
Week 1: I’m sick . Ulf saves the day!
Week 2 (today): Advanced Shading
Week 3: Light Transport
Week 4: GPU Architecture
Week 5: (guest lecturer)
Point of lectures is to give you understanding you might need to understand research papers.
No examination.
You have very different starting skills: Ask questions when you loose track!
Advanced Computer Graphics, Erik Sintorn

6. Student Presentation Seminars
Each of you will give a presentation of a research paper
I will bring a schedule next week
Choose your slot early!
Choose your subject before week 4.
Present a technique described in a paper/article
Should be about computer graphics
Good conferences to look at: I3D, EGSR, HPG Papers usually available from:
A number of suggested papers are on homepage
Choose something and check with me.
Ask if anyone is willing to step up and choose the first slots today.
Suggested conferences are good because usually a bit easier to get into that SIGGRAPH etc.
Need to check with me that it’s not to little and not too much.
Advanced Computer Graphics, Erik Sintorn

7. Student Presentation Seminars
Presentations are 15 minutes + 30 minutes discussion.
You may work in pairs and do 30 minute presentation.
~ 2 presentations per lecture.
You are expected to know your paper well, and be able to explain the main contributions to the class
Everyone will also read three of the other papers ahead of time, and prepare questions for discussion
We will fix this schedule after all topics are chosen.
If working in pairs, both students have to talk ~15 minutes
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8. Student Presentation Seminars
Presentation outline:
Describe the problem that is being solved
First broadly
Then the specific problem
Describe how it is solved in the article
Start with overview
Then interesting details
Show most important results
The goal is that your fellow students shall understand the problem and solution
If working in pairs, both students have to talk ~15 minutes
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Project
You will also do a project, to be handed in at the end of the course.
E.g., A small game, A raytracer, Real time indirect illumination of some kind, Sorting with CUDA…
Check with me early.
Homepage contains some suggestions of things you can do, and grading guidelines.
The “points” on the homepage are not gospel, ask me if you want to be more certain about grade.
You are encouraged to work in groups of N people.
So you can create even cooler things.
But points required for a grade scales linearly with N.
You will report who did what for grading.
Lab code from TDA361 is a good starting point.
Ask them if everyone has access to the lab code.
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Project
Project starts today
Don’t wait until you have a few weeks left
There will be a mid-term presentation
Show how far you’ve gotten
Ask what you need to do more to reach grade X
Supervision
6 time-slots booked for supervision
Not much time. Prepare your questions.
Ask them if everyone has access to the lab code.
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11. Probable Timeline (assuming 20 students)v3 v4 v5 v6 v7 v8 v9
v10
v11
v12
Supervision: 3364 L1 L2 L3 L4 L5
presentation
exam week
Mid term checkup
v13
v14
v15
v16
v17
v18
v19
v20
v21
v22
Supervision: 4128
Easter!
01-maj
Project presentations
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