CS 448 - Topics in Computer Graphics

Mathematical Methods for Computer Graphics

Lecture Notes

There will not be any lecture notes for the first class meeting (Sep 25).

Part 1: Wavelets

• Lecture 1 (Sep 30) - Introduction to Wavelets (Zorin)
  Scribe: John Owens ([email protected])
  
  
• Lecture 2 (Oct 2) - Introduction to Wavelets II (Zorin)
  Scribe: Scott Cohen ([email protected])
  Lecture slides: Haar hierarchical filter bank, Haar basis
  
  
• Lecture 3 (Oct 7) - Construction of Orthogonal Wavelets (Zorin)
  Scribe: Li-Wei He ([email protected])
  
  
• Lecture 4 (Oct 9) - Biorthogonal Wavelets (Zorin)
  Scribe: Pierre Louveaux Handout: Some books on wavelets

• Lecture 5 (Oct 14) - Applications of Wavelets in Graphics (Veach)
  Scribe: Li-Yi Wei ([email protected])
  
  

Part 2: Monte Carlo Methods

• Lecture 6 (Oct 16) - Introduction to Monte Carlo Integration (Veach)
  Scribe: Lucas Pereira ([email protected])
  
  
• Lecture 7 (Oct 21) - Sampling Random Variables (Veach)
  Scribe: Menelaos Karavelas ([email protected])
  
  
• Lecture 8 (Oct 23) - Variance Reduction I (Veach)
  Scribe: James Davis ([email protected])
  
  
• Lecture 9 (Oct 28) - Variance Reduction II (Veach)
  Scribe: David Hoffman ([email protected])
  
  
• Lecture 10 (Oct 30) - Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods (Veach)
  Scribe: Matt Pharr ([email protected])
  
  
• Lecture 11 (Nov 4) - The Metropolis Sampling Algorithm (Veach)
  Scribe: Homan Igehy ([email protected])