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Computer Science Department, USC

o CSCI 597, Seminar in Computer Science Research (2006)

The goal of this course is to introduce Ph.D. students to a broad range of computer science research. First-year Ph.D. students are required to enroll for this course for the first 2 semesters of the Ph.D. program.

o CSCI 590, CSCI-790, Graduate Direct Research (2002 – 2006)

590: Research leading to the master’s degree. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department.

790: Research leading to the doctorate. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department.

o CSCI 580, 3D Graphics and Rendering (Fall 2003, co-taught with Dr. Ulrich Neumann)

The process of creating images from 3D models. Includes transformations, shading, lighting, rasterization, texturing, and other topics. Details on class website.

o CSCI 480, Computer Graphics (Spring 2001)

Introduction to graphics display hardware and applications, interactive techniques, 2D scan conversion, 2D & 3D transformations, 3D viewing, visible surface algorithms, illumination models, smooth shading, ray tracing, shadows, transparency, texture mapping. Details on class website.

Following materials and talk slides may be useful for your work

· Notes/slides

- Some lecture notes for CS 480/580 (introduction, math fundamentals, graphics programming, simplification, IBR, volumetric data and rendering)

- Virtual and augmented reality

- Image motion and tracking

- 3D motion capture

- Geometry modeling

- Video based rendering/augmented virtual environment

- Epipolar Geometry

- Trifocal Tensor

· Affiliations, collaborators and related groups

- ACM Siggraph

- NSF Center for Computer Graphics and Scientific Visualization

- Brown University graphics group

- Cornell University graphics group

- University of North Carolina

- University of Utah graphics group

- University of Southern California graphics group

- Caltech graphics group

- Stanford graphics group

· Graphics bibliographies

- Real-time rendering bibliography (collects over 800 references related to graphics rendering techniques. Every graphics students should read at least half of them)

- Radiosity bibliography (compiled by Ian Ashdown and Eric Haines)

- Ray tracing bibliography (compiled by Eric Haines and Paul Heckbert)

- Computational Geometry bibliography (maintained by Bill Jones, with over 8000 references. There are other related bibliography links from this page.)

- Multiresolution modeling, surface simplification, and terrain links (collected by Michael Garland and Paul Heckbert)

- Multiresolution modeling and surface simplification bibliography (collected by Paul Heckbert and Michael Garland.)

- Texture mapping/image warping bibliography

- Shadow algorithm bibliography

- Implicit surfaces bibliography

- OpenGL site, SGI

- OpenGL programming guide (so called “red book”)

· Computer vision resources

- CMU Computer Vision Home

- USC Keith Price's on-line computer bibliography

- CVonline

- Intel OpenCV – open source computer vision library

- British Machine Vision Association

- Pattern Recognition

- Remote Sense

- Artificial Intelligent

- Book “Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision” by Richard Hartley and Andrew Zisserman (really great book)