TDT03: Advanced Topics in Visual Computing
Fall 2020
Theme: Ray Tracing
Event 1: A (virtual) kick-off meeting took
place on Friday 21.8.2020 08:00 and papers
were assigned to students.
Event
2: Presentations took place on Thursday 17.9.2020 at IT-syd Møterom 201 from 10:00.
Event
3: An oral examination will take place as scheduled by the
examinations office.
It is
important that you are present in ALL three events!
The
curriculum consists of the 6 papers that were presented.
Chat
via Piazza: piazza.com/ntnu.no/fall2020/tdt03 -> general_tdt03
Student |
Paper |
Presentations |
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Marvin Reza, Dario Sucic: Stochastic
Sampling and Distributed Ray Tracing Aslak Mkadmi: A Survey of Ray-Surface Intersection Algorithms |
"An
Introduction to Ray Tracing" (An old but classic book, choose any of chapters 1 to 5) |
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Marcus Benjamin Johansson |
"An Improved Illumination Model for Shaded Display" (The classic
Ray Tracing paper) |
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Martin
Solheim Peder
Bergebakken Sundt |
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Kristian
Stamland Eilif Tandberg Swensen |
"Fast Parallel Construction of High-Quality Bounding Volume Hierarchies" |
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Ivar
Andreas Helgestad Sandvik Haakon
Wardeberg |
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Fall 2019
Theme: Using Computer Graphics to generate Synthetic Visual Data
with Ground Truth for Machine Learning
The kick-off meeting took placeon Monday
2.9.2019 14:00-15:00 at IDI-242and papers were assigned to students.
Presentations
took place on Monday 23.9.2019 from 09:00
at IDI-242.
An oral
examination will take place on 28.11.2019 at IDI422 (see estimated
times below).
It is
important that you are present in these three events.
Student |
Paper |
Presentation |
Oral Examination (28.11.2019) |
Flatval, Haakon |
"Dissecting
Person Re-identification from the Viewpoint of Viewpoint” |
10:30 |
|
Loekken, Hallgeir |
"Looking
beyond appearances: Synthetic training data for deep CNNs in
re-identification" |
10:00 |
|
Lium, Ola |
"Analyzing
and Reducing the Damage of Dataset Bias to Face Recognition with Synthetic
Data" |
09:30 |
|
Aven, Thomas |
"A
Survey of Synthetic Biometrics: Capabilities and Benefits" |
09:00 |
|
Echtermeyer, Christian |
“Use
of synthetic data to test biometric algorithms” |
11:00 |
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Fall 2018
Theme: Mesh Data Input for Neural Networks and Symmetry Detection
The kick-off meeting to decide on this year’s
topics assignment took placeon Wednesday
29.8.2018 14:00-15:00 at IDI-122 (e-arbeid) and papers
were assigned to students.
Research paper presentations were held on Wednesday 26.9.2018 from 09:00
at IDI-242.
Links to the papers and presentations can
be found below.
Note that you may need an NTNU IP to access some of
the papers
Theoral examination
will take place at IDI422on Tuesday 4th of December 2018 according to the
schedule below.
Student |
Paper |
Presentation |
Oral Examination (4.12.2018) |
Andersen, Johannes |
"Multi-view
Convolutional Neural Networks for 3D Shape Recognition” |
09:30 |
|
Hukkelås, Håkon |
"Orientation-boosted
Voxel Nets for 3D Object Recognition" |
09:00 |
|
Kristensen, Brede |
"Orientation-boosted
Voxel Nets for 3D Object Recognition" |
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|
Lystrup, Asbjørn |
"A
Connection between Partial Symmetry and Inverse Procedural Modeling" |
10:30 |
|
Svågard, Mikkel |
“Partial and
Approximate Symmetry Detection for 3D Geometry” https://lgg.epfl.ch/publications/2006/mitra_2006_PAS.pdf |
10:00 |
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Fall
2017
The kick-off meeting to decide on this year’s
topics assignment took place on Friday 1.9.2017 11:00-12:00 at Gamle Elektro G-138and papers
were assigned to students.
This
year’s theme is Procedural Content Generation.
Research paper presentations were held on
Wednesday 4.10.2017 from 09:00 at Realfagbygget - R
Zoo-3 (360.EU2-148); links to the papers can be found below; you may need an
NTNU IP to access some of the papers.
The oral
examination will take place at IDI422 on 1.12.2017 according to the
schedule below.
Student |
Presentation |
Paper |
Oral Examination Time (1.12.2017) |
Isachsen, Ulrich Johan |
"Similarity and Dissimilarity Measures"
[Similarity part only] |
11:00 |
|
Larsen, Daniel Fedai |
"First Person Sketch-Based Terrain Editing" |
9:30 |
|
Nystad, Lars Håkon |
"Graphical Modeling using L-systems" |
10:00 |
|
Skjæran, Magne |
"Building Construction Sets by Tiling Grammar
Simplification" |
10:30 |
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Fall 2015
The kick-off meeting to decide on this year’s topics assignment was
held on Friday 28.8.2015 14:00-15:00 at IDI122 (iArbeid).
This year’s theme is Feature Descriptors.
Research paper presentations were held on
Friday 25.9.2015 from 10:00 at IDI122 (iArbeid);
links to the presentations can be found below.
The oral examination willbe
held on Wednesday 2.12.2015 at IDI420 (approximate
times given below).
Do not forget to register for this
theory module.
Student |
Paper |
Presentation |
Oral Exam Time (approx.) |
Bart Van Blokland |
"Distinctive image features from scale-invariant keypoints" |
14:00 |
|
ArveNygård |
"Matching 3D models with shape distributions" |
10:30 |
|
Inge Edward Halsaunet |
"Histograms of oriented gradients for human
detection" |
12:30 |
|
Magnus Nordin |
"Multiresolution gray-scale and rotation invariant
texture classification with local binary patterns" |
12:00 |
|
EivindKvissel |
"PHOG: photometric and geometric functions for
textured shape retrieval" |
11:00 |
|
Ruben Fagerli |
"Using Spin Images for Efficient Object Recognition in
Cluttered 3D Scenes" |
13:00 |
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TDT03: Advanced Topics in Visual Computing
Fall 2014
A kick-off meeting to decide on this year’s topics washeld
on Friday 29.8.2014 at 15:00 at IDI242
Research paper presentations will be held
as per the table belowon Wednesday 17.9.2014 from
9:30 at IDI242, all must attend!
The oral examination will be heldon Friday 5.12.2014 from 10:00 according to the plan
below.
Topic |
Student |
Paper |
Presentation |
Oral Exam Time (approx.) |
Volume Graphics |
Olav EmilEiksund |
VDB: High-Resolution Sparse Volumes with Dynamic Topology |
10:00 |
|
Structure from Motion |
OddvarHungnes |
10:30 |
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Structure from Motion |
Thomas Martin Schmid |
11:00 |
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Saliency |
ErlendLøkken Sigholt |
3D
Interest Point Detection via Discriminative Learning |
11:30 |
|
Saliency |
Sigrid Andersson |
12:30 |
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Object Descriptors |
KristianHasselknippe |
What Makes a Chair a Chair? |
13:00 |
|
Object Descriptors |
Martin Stølen |
13:30 |
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TDT03: Advanced Topics in Visual Computing
Fall 2013
The main theme this year is erosion modeling and rendering (second
time!)
In the first two meetings the topic was decided
and papers were distributed
All Presentations: Thursday 26.9.2013 16:00-19:00 at IDI-242
List of Topics for Presentation
Oral examination expected in early December 2013
Topic |
Student |
Reading |
Weathering Simulation by Particle Tracing |
John EdvardReiten |
Y. Chen et al, Visual Simulation of Weathering Byy-ton Tracing, SIGGRAPH 2005, pp. 1127-1133.Presentation. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/bainguo/p1127-chen.pdf |
Land Erosion by Water |
ViliusKazakauskas |
B. Benes et al, Hydraulic Erosion, Comp. Anim. Virtual Worlds 2006; 17: 99–108.Presentation. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cav.77/pdf |
Erosion Animation via Level Sets |
Johan Helsing |
Chris Wojtan et al, Animating Corrosion and Erosion, Eurographics Workshop on Natural Phenomena (2007).Presentation. http://www.amath.unc.edu/Faculty/mucha/Reprints/EGNPerosion.pdf |
Stereology |
Jan Tore |
R. Jagnow et al, Stereological Techniques for Solid Textures, SIGGRAPH 2004. http://graphics.cs.yale.edu/site/sites/files/Stereological%20Techniques.pdf |
3D from Video |
Thomas Rootwelt |
V. Fremont et al, Turntable-Based 3D Object Reconstruction, IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems, Singapore, dec. 1-3, 2004. Presentation. |
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List of Topics for Presentation at the Advanced Topics in Visual
Computing course
TDT03
Fall 2012
The main theme this year is erosion modeling and rendering
All Presentations: Thursday 27.9.2012 10:00-13:00 at IDI-464
Topic |
Student |
Reading |
ICP registration algorithm |
DimitryKongevold |
http://eecs.vanderbilt.edu/courses/cs359/other_links/papers/1992_besl_mckay_ICP.pdf, P.J. Besl, N.D. McKay, A Method for Registration of 3-D Shapes, IEEE TPAMI, 14(2), 1992.Presentation. |
Object Retrieval using Bag of Words |
Lars KirkholtMelhus |
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00371-012-0724-x G.Lavoué, Combination of bag-of-words descriptors for robust partial shape retrieval, The Visual Computer, 28(9), 2012.Presentation. |
Stone Weathering |
StianAaraas Pedersen |
http://graphics.cs.yale.edu/publications/stone.pdf J. Dorsey et
al, Modeling and Rendering of Weathered Stone, SIGGRAPH '99.Presentation. |
Material Variation over Time, STAF |
HenrikHolenbakkenKnutsen |
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~ravir/tsvbrdf.pdf J. Gu et al, Time-Varying Surface Appearance: Acquisition, Modeling and Rendering, ACM Transactions on Graphics. 25(3), July 2006.Presentation. |
Massive Model Rendering |
LorentsGravås |
http://people.cs.vt.edu/~chaopeng/paper/chao_eg12.pdf C.
Peng et al, A GPU-based Approach for Massive Model Rendering with
Frame-to-Frame Coherence, Eurographics 2012.Presentation. |
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List of Topics for Presentation at the Advanced Graphics course
TDT03
Fall 2011
Topic |
Pres’n Date |
Student |
Reading |
Windscreen effects (rain, fog, icing, dirt..) |
22.11.11 |
Christopher Stensen |
http://www.csie.nctu.edu.tw/~roger/rain/references/animationWaterDroplet.pdf, Read sections: Introduction, Simulation of Water Droplet Flow, Rendering Water Droplets, Examples |
River flow rendering in real time |
25.10.11 |
Jan Rovde |
https://graphics.llnl.gov/docs/FlowTextures.pdf pp.1-5 (up to –excluding- TEXTURE ADVECTION FOR UNSTEADY 2D FLOWS), also have a quick look at the recent presentation http://www.valvesoftware.com/publications/2010/siggraph2010_vlachos_waterflow.pdf |
Fire rendering in real time |
18.10.11 |
VegardKåsli |
http://undergraduate.csse.uwa.edu.au/year4/Current/ Students/Files/2005/SanandananSomasekaran/CorrectedDissertation.pdf pp.1-20 Also see http://developer.nvidia.com/node/105 |
3D object retrieval |
8.11.11 |
Andreas Jakobsen |
http://graphics.di.uoa.gr/Downloads/papers/journals/p23.pdf Exclude section 2.4 |
3D facial biometrics |
1.11.11 |
Kjetil Babington |
http://graphics.di.uoa.gr/Downloads/papers/journals/p35.pdf Exclude sections 3.3.2 -3.3.4. |
Subdivision surfaces |
15.11.11 |
Ole Magnus Ruud |
Subdivision.pdf (attached). You can skip the crossed out sections. Also, answer the question: what is the difference between a subdivision and a tessellation scheme? (For this Ole Magnus will very briefly present another paper; take notes at his talk). |
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