Course Calendar
JANUARY
| 1 | WED JAN 24 |
Course introduction and organization. The 3D Model capture and reconstruction pipeline in the Pieta Project. |
| 2 | TUE JAN 30 |
Surface Representations File Formats Data Structures Polygon Meshes |
FEBRUARY
| 3 | THU FEB 01 |
Java software environment for assignments Data structures for polygon mesh traversal The Half-Edge data structure |
| 4 | TUE FEB 06 |
j3DPGP Application Data structures First assignment out |
| 5 | THU FEB 08 |
3D Reconstruction by triangulation Structure lighting methods Image formation Camera models |
| 6 | TUE FEB 13 |
3D reconstruction equations Parametric and implicit equations of rays and lines Distance from a point to a line Conditions for intersection of two lines Conditions for common intersection of multiple lines Multi-view 3D reconstruction of a point |
| 7 | THU FEB 15 |
The pinhole camera Camera calibration with a 3D rig Second assignment out |
| TUE FEB 20 | NO CLASS: LONG WEEKEND | |
| 8 | THU FEB 22 |
Lens distortion correction Perspective projection from plane to plane Homographies Intrinsic camera calibration with a planar pattern Pose estimation with known intrinsic parameters |
| 9 | TUE FEB 27 | Final Projects: Groups / Goals / Initial Brainstorming |
MARCH
| 10 | THU MAR 01 | Building polygon meshes by from multiple views 3D Registration and merging Iterative Closest Point Algorithm (ICP) |
| 11 | TUE MAR 06 |
GUEST LECTURE RAMESH RASKAR, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory TITLE: Active Imaging and Display at MERL: A Selective Overview |
| 12 | THU MAR 08 |
Surface reconstruction methods Volumetric methods Isosurface algorithms |
| 13 | TUE MAR 13 |
GUEST LECTURE SONG ZHANG, Mathematics, Harvard University TITLE: High-Resolution, Real-Time Geometry Video Acquisition Using a Phase-Shifting Method Reading: Realtime Shape Measurement Calibration of Structured Light Systems |
| 14 | THU MAR 15 |
Representing Rotations
Surface Reconstruction from Silhouettes and Depth Discontinuities Project updates |
| 15 | TUE MAR 20 | GUEST LECTURE TODD ZICKLER , EECS, Harvard University TITLE: TBA |
| 16 | THU MAR 22 |
Point Cloud Simplification Surface Simplification Mesh Optimization |
| TUE MAR 27 | NO CLASS: SPRING BREAK | |
| THU MAR 29 | NO CLASS: SPRING BREAK |
APRIL
| 17 | TUE APR 03 |
GUEST LECTURE HOLY RUSHMEIER, CS, Yale University TITLE: TBA |
| 18 | THU APR 05 |
Mesh Denoising Signal Processing on Meshes Project updates |
| 19 | TUE APR 10 | Remeshing |
| 20 | THU APR 12 | GUEST LECTURE DONALD H. SANDERS, Institute for the Visualization of History TITLE:TBA |
| 21 | TUE APR 17 |
Project updates |
| 22 | THU APR 19 | Geometry Compression |
| 23 | TUE APR 24 | TBD |
| 24 | THU APR 26 | TBD |
MAY
| 25 | TUE MAY 01 | TBD |
| 26 | THU MAY 03 | Final Project Presentations (tentative) |
| 27 | TUE MAY 08 | Final Project Presentations (tentative) |