Visual Computing

Semester: Autumn 2023

Catalogue Link: 252-0206-00L

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Lecturers: - Marc Pollefeys (Vision) - Markus Gross (Graphics)

Lecture: - Tue 10-12, room HG G3 - Thu 14-16, room HG G3

Vision Assistants: - Philipp Lindenberger, Linfei Pan, Paul-Edouard Sarlin, Zador Pataki

Graphics Assistants: - Rafel 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: - Both handwritten and digital notes on paper are allowed in the exam.

Lecture Schedule
Week Tuesday Thursday
Week 1: Sep 19+22 Introduction to Vision The Digital Image
Week 2: Sep 26+28 Image Segmentation I Image Segmentation II
Week 3: Oct 03+05 Convolution and Filtering Image Features
Week 4: Oct 10+12 Fourier Transforms Fourier Transforms (cont.)
Week 5: Oct 17+19 Unitary Transforms Pyramids and Wavelets
Week 6: Oct 24+26 Optical Flow Video Compression
Week 7: Oct 31+Nov 02 Convolutional Neural Networks Radon Transform
Week 8: Nov 07+09 Introduction to Graphics Graphics Pipeline
Week 9: Nov 14+16 Light and Colors Transformations
Week 10: Nov 21+23 Lighting and Shading I Lighting and Shading II
Week 11: Nov 28+30 Geometry and Textures I Processing Signals
Week 12: Dec 05+07 Geometry and Textures II, Scan Conversion Bezier Curves, B-Spline Curves
Week 13: Dec 12+14 Tensor Product Surfaces (Rational Curves), Subdivision Surfaces Visibility and Shadows, Ray Tracing
Week 14: Dec 19+21 Ray Tracing The Science of Special Effects in Film (Guest Lecture) | Modeling of Snow (Guest Lecture)
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 WebGL Code | Solution
Week 9 Light & Colors Material
Week 10 Matrices and Quaternions Code | Solution
Week 11 WebGL Shading Language and Blending Code | Solution
Week 12 Lighting and Shading Code | Solution
Week 13 Curves and Surfaces Code
Week 14 Graphics Q&A Slides
Books

Image Processing

Computer Graphics

Semester Index