• SWS: 2V + 2Ü   - 6 ECTS
• prerequisites: Computer Graphics
• first lecture: 19.04.2011

This is an advanced course on photo realistic image synthesis. The course will cover the theory of global illumination computations and will give an introduction to Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo methods as one way of solving the rendering equation. In addition, we will discuss surface appearance models, and their representation based on spherical harmonics or wavelets, leading to other photorealistic rendering techniques such as precomputed radiance transfer methods.

The topics covered in this course are:

• Monte Carlo Integration and Simulation
• Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods
• Path Tracing and Bidirectional Path Tracing
• Metropolis Sampling
• Photon Mapping
• Hierarchical Radiosity
• Appearance Modeling
• Spherical Harmonics and Wavelets
• Precomputed Radiance Transfer (PRT)
• Texture Synthesis

Students should subscribe to the official mailing list:

  imgsynth11@lists.uni-ulm.de

• First lecture 19.04.2011

• Weekly exercises
• • earning more than 80% of the exercise points will add a bonus of 0.3 on you final grade
  • exercises must be presented in exercise meetings
  • groups of maximally 2 students are allowed
• Oral exam

• Mi 10-12, Room O27/2203

ExercisesDateSlidesExercisesSource

19.04.11		exercise01	coRT
26.04.11	Monte Carlo I	exercise02	tools
03.05.11	MonteCarlo II	exercise03	coRT_PT
10.04.11	QMC	exercise04
17.04.11		exercise05
24.04.11		exercise06
01.06.11	Importance	exercise07
07.06.11	BDPT, Photon
14.06.11	Metropolis	Projects
21.06.11	SH-Wavelets
28.06.11	PRT
05.07.11	RealtimeGI
12.07.11	REYES

Test ScenesSceneDescription

interior09	900k trinangles
horror	40k trinagles, many lightsources + difficult paths
	tools for blender import export: toolbox