CSE 570: Advanced Computer Graphics

CIDSE at Arizona State University

Fall 2018   *    T & TH 9:00 - 10:15am   *    BYAC 240

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Instructor: Dianne Hansford, Ph. D.
dianne.hansford@asu.edu
Office: BYENG M1-02
Office Hours: 10:45 - 11:45am M,W or by appointment

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Syllabus        Class Log

Date	Topics	Materials	Homework
		Table of Contents for Text Terminology Sheet (updated 8/23)
16 Aug	Introduction to course	* Syllabus / website review * Mathematica (MM) -- Wolfram -- Stephen Wolfram * Introduction.ppt	* Review materials from today * Laptops (smart phones) in class ... * Install Mathematica -- Goto MyApps for instructions -- Use your ASU email address -- Follow the instructions carefully! -- Wolfram User Portal
21 Aug	Introduction to Mathematica (Bring your laptop!)	IntroToMathematica.nb Programming Tips	Play with the tutorial nb
23 Aug	Geometry	Geometry.ppt	Check out these sample nbs: VectorLength.nb, ParametricLine.nb, bilin.nb
28 Aug	Geometry continued	Geometry ppt slide 22+ Metric v. Norm
30 Aug	Geometry continued
4 Sep	Geometry continued	Geometry ppt slide 50+ Quadratic Forms (slide 23+)	HW #1 Assigned Programming Tips
6 Sep	Geometry wrap-up HW Q&A Discrete Geometry	Geometry ppt slide 59+ Discrete_geometry.ppt	Differential Geometry texts: O'Neill or Do Carmo
		Geometry nbs: Osculating Circles Tangent Plane Gauss Map
11 Sep	Discrete Geometry	Voronoi nb Voronoi on sphere nb
13 Sep	Discrete Geometry wrap up	Bertrabd-Diguet-Puiseaux Thm Crusts Triangulation data structure (slide 22) Barycentric coordinates (slide 19+)
18 Sep	Rigid Kingdom	Hausdorff distance + application 1 + application 2 In the rigid kingdom ppt Geometry of Symmetric Matrices SVD/PCA	HW #1 Due
20 Sep	Rigid Kingdom	Digital Michelangelo Project	HW #2 Assigned
25 Sep	Rigid Kingdom Hausdorff distance Iterative Closest Point	Besl and McKay paper (emailed) Horn paper (emailed) ICP Slides Quaternions Quaternions and spatial rotation
27 Sep	Iterative Closest Point	Gimbal lock video Quaternion to 3D rotation video Apollo Space Program and Gimbal Lock	Mock Midterm
			Excellent write-up example
2 Oct	Review
4 Oct	Midterm
9 Oct	No class: Winter Break
11 Oct	Midterm Discussion HW2 Discussion	p-norm visualization nb PCA visualization	HW #2 Due
16 Oct	HW 3 Discussion MDS	Borgatti's MDS overview Gradient descent mds.ppt	HW #3 Assigned OFF triangulations
18 Oct	MDS
23 Oct	HW Q&A MDS		23 Oct Masters Thesis Defense Light Estimation for Mixed-Reality Devices
25 Oct	MDS - Spectral Embeddings	spectral.ppt
30 Oct	MDS - Spectral Embeddings	barycentric coord solutions nb	HW #3 Due
1 Nov	MDS - Spectral Embeddings	Local Linear Embedding mesh smoothing nb discrete pde (Laplace) nb Laplace Beltrami Swiss Army Talk
			Upcoming event: Guest speaker at ASU on 17 Nov "Code Girls" of WWII
6 Nov	Shortest path / Geodesics	shortest_path.ppt Maekawa geodesics pdf
8 Nov	GMDS	FMM paths video Surazhsky et al. on MMP algorithm gmds ppts	HW #4 Assigned
13 Nov	GMDS GH Distance	Error in ICP code Isometry Invariant Similarity ppt
15 Nov	Partial Similarity	partial similarity ppt	Memoli paper on GH and H
20 Nov	Non-rigid Correspondence and Calculus of Shapes	correspondence ppt Floater: param of triangulations Floater + Gotsman: How to morph	Course evaluations are open. I value your input! Please take time to share your impressions of the class.
22 Nov	No class: Thanksgiving Break
			For those of you who do not have the book, I thought this paper on FFM and minimal geodesics might be helpful. Sethian and Kimmel paper (Not needed for HW4!)
27 Nov	HW4 Q&A Floater papers	Unrolling the Deadsea scrolls	HW #4 Due
29 Nov	Face Recognition	face recognition ppt	Final
6 Dec TH	Turn in Final Exam 9:00am - 9:30am in BYENG M1-02	Turn in a hardcopy of the completed take home final exam. Please bring it to DCH's office on or before this date/time. If completing the extra credit, please email the report and nb.