Visual Computing
Semester: Autumn 2022
Catalogue Link: 252-0206-00L
Lecturers: - Marc Pollefeys (Vision) - Markus Gross (Graphics)
Lecture: - Tue 13-16, room CHN G42 - Thu 14-16, room HG G3
Vision Assistants: - Luca Cavalli, Remi Pautrat, Paul-Edouard Sarlin
Graphics Assistants: - Rafael Wampfler, Philine Witzig, Nikola Kovacevic, Lingchen Yang, Yingyan Xu
Tuesday Tutorial: - Tue 13-16, room CHN G42
Thursday Tutorial: - Thu 09-12, room IFW A36
Schedule and Course Notes: - Past Exams
Supplemental Info: - This schedule is tentative. The graphic part is currently undergoing significant changes and will be updated accordingly at a later point. - Slides are accessible only within the ETH network (wifi or VPN).
Exam Notes: - Only handwritten notes on paper are allowed in the exam.
Lecture Schedule
| Week | Tuesday | Thursday |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1: Sep 20+22 | Introduction to Vision | The Digital Image |
| Week 2: Sep 27+29 | Image Segmentation I | Image Segmentation II |
| Week 3: Oct 04+06 | Convolution and Filtering | Image Features |
| Week 4: Oct 11+13 | Fourier Transforms | Fourier Transforms (cont.) |
| Week 5: Oct 18+20 | Unitary Transforms | Pyramids and Wavelets |
| Week 6: Oct 25+27 | Optical Flow | Video Compression |
| Week 7: Nov 01+03 | Radon Transform | Texture |
| Week 8: Nov 08+10 | Introduction to Graphics | Graphics Pipeline |
| Week 9: Nov 15+17 | Light and Colors | Transformations |
| Week 10: Nov 22+24 | Lighting and Shading I | Lighting and Shading II |
| Week 11: Nov 29 + Dec 01 | Geometry and Textures I | Processing Signals |
| Week 12: Dec 06+08 | Geometry and Textures II, Bezier Curves, B-Spline Curves, Curve demo | Subdivision Surfaces, Tensor Product Surfaces, Scan Conversion |
| Week 13: Dec 13+15 | Animation & Physics (Guest Lecture) | Visibility and Shadows, Ray Tracing |
| Week 14: Dec 20+22 | Ray Tracing, Acceleration Data Structures | Digital Character AI (Guest) |
Tutorials
Each session is organized as follows. TAs first give a summary of the relevant course content and introduce the exercises. TAs then remain in the room to assist students in solving the exercises. They finally explain the solution shortly before the end of the session.
Within one week, both tutorial sessions cover the same materials. Students are split into two groups according to their last name: Tuesday for A-G and Thursday for H-Z.
Slides and exercises are accessible only within the ETH network (wifi or VPN).
Tutorial Schedule
| Week | Topic | Material |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | No tutorial this week. | - |
| Week 2 | Background Subtraction | Code/Solution |
| Week 3 | Edge Detection | Code/Solution |
| Week 4 | Fourier Transform | Code/Solution |
| Week 5 | Data-Driven Compression | Code/Solution |
| Week 6 | Optical Flow | Code/Solution |
| Week 7 | Vision Q&A | Solution |
| Week 8 | Introduction to OpenGL | Code/Solution |
| Week 9 | Light & Colors | Code/Solution |
| Week 10 | Matrices and Quaternions | Code/Solution |
| Week 11 | OpenGL Shading Language and Blending | Discussion/Code/Solution |
| Week 12 | Lighting and Shading | Code/Solution |
| Week 13 | Rigid Body Dynamics | Code/Solution |
| Week 14 | Graphics Q&A | - |
Books
Image Processing
- R. Gonzalez, R. Woods, Digital Image Processing (3rd Edition), 2007
- R. Hartley, A. Zisserman, Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision, 2004
- R. Szeliski, Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications, 2010
Computer Graphics
- Prof. Dr. Markus Gross, GRAPHISCHE DATENVERARBEITUNG
- H. Nguyen GPU Gems 3, 2008
- P. Shirley, R. K. Morley Realistic Ray Tracing, 2003
- M. Olano Real-Time Shading, 2002
- A. Watt 3D Computer Graphics (3rd Edition), 1999
- J.D. Foley Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice in C (2nd Edition), 1995
External Links