Calendar

Note that the future schedule is subject to change.

Date Topic Readings
Sep 13 Introduction and Overview
Common-sense reasoning and probability theory		  
Sep 15 Basic probability theory
Assignment 1 out 		MacKay, sections 2.1-2.3
Recommended reading: Course notes, Chapters 2-6
(Make sure you have Sept 15 version or later; skip starred sections)
Sep 20 Gaussians, PCA, PPCA, Linear Regression Course notes, Section 6.4 and Chapter 7
(Make sure you have Sept 15 version or later; skip starred sections)
Sep 22 Paper presentations
  • V. Blanz, T. Vetter. A Morphable Model for the Synthesis of 3D Faces. SIGGRAPH 99. Web [Ben]
  • B. Allen, B. Curless, Z. Popović. The Space of all body shapes and sizes. SIGGRAPH 2003. web, see also the video from a follow-up paper [Marcus]
    • Sep 24 Assignment 1 due  
    Sep 27 No class  
    Sep 29 No class  
    Friday, Oct 1, 3pm-4:30pm
    BA5256    		 Non-linear regression, Radial Basis Functions, Non-linear optimization, Mixture Models Course notes, chapter 8
    MacKay, chapters 20, 22, 38-39, 41, 44
    Oct 4 Paper presentations
  • V. Blanz, C. Basso, T. Poggio, T. Vetter. Reanimating Faces in Images and Video. Eurographics 2003. paper, Video 1, Video 2 . [Sergey]
  • Y.-Y. Chuang et al. A Bayesian Approach to Digital Image Matting. web. CVPR 2001. [Andriy]
  • J. P. Lewis, M. Cordner, N. Fong. Pose Space Deformation: A Unified Approach to Shape Interpolation and Skeleton-Driven Deformation. SIGGRAPH 2000. web, paper [Diego]
    • Oct 6 Paper presentations
  • A. Efros, T. Leung. Texture synthesis by Non-Parametric Sampling. ICCV 99. web, paper [Liam]
  • A. Schödl, R. Szeliski, D. H. Salesin, I. Essa. Video textures. SIGGRAPH 2000. web[Noah]
  • N. E. Apostoloff, A. W. Fitzgibbon. Bayesian video matting using learnt image priors. CVPR 2004. web
    • Oct 11 No class (Thanksgiving)  
    Oct 13 Paper presentations
  • C. Rother, V. Kolmogorov and A. Blake. GrabCut - Interactive Foreground Extraction Using Iterated Graph Cuts. SIGGRAPH 2004. paper [Vinod]
  • A. Hertzmann, C. Jacobs, N. Oliver, B. Curless, D. Salesin. Image Analogies. SIGGRAPH 2001. web [Jack]
  • D. Anguelov, D. Koller, H. Pang, P. Srinivasan, S. Thrun. Recovering Articulated Object Models from 3D Range Data. UAI 2004. web [Patricio]
    • Oct 18 No class  
    Oct 20 No class  
    Oct 25 No class  
    Oct 27 Graphical models, time-series (LDS/HMM), EM, etc. (Optional)

    Recommending reading:

    For most of these topics, there isn't really a simple and accessible tutorial; here are the best papers that I know of to recommend.

  • PPCA: Tipping, M. E. and C. M. Bishop (1999a). Probabilistic principal component analysis. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B 61(3), 611.622. paper
  • PPCA: S. Roweis. EM for PCA and SPCA. NIPS 97. paper
  • EM: R. M. Neal and G. E. Hinton. A View of the EM Algorithm that Justifies Incremental, Sparse, and Other Variants. paper
  • HMMs: L. R. Rabiner, "A Tutorial on Hidden Markov Models and Selected Applications in Speech Recognition," Proc. of the IEEE, Vol.77, No.2, pp.257--286, 1989. paper
  • LDS: Ghahramani, Z. and Hinton, G.E. (1996) Parameter estimation for linear dynamical systems University of Toronto Technical Report CRG-TR-96-2, 6 pages paper
  • SLDS: V. Pavlovic, J. M. Rehg, and J. MacCormick. Learning Switching Linear Models of Human Motion. NIPS 2001. paper
  • SLDS:Y. Li et al. Motion Texture. SIGGRAPH 2002. paper alternate link
    • Oct 29 (Friday) Paper presentations
  • J. B. Tenenbaum, W. T. Freeman. Separating style and content with bilinear models. Neural Computation 12 (6), 1247-1283. web paper [Marcus]
  • M. Brand and A. Hertzmann. Style Machines. SIGGRAPH 2000. web [Vinod]
  • N. Jojic, B. Frey, A. Kannan. Epitomic Analysis of Appearance and Shape. ICCV 2003. web [Ben]
    • Nov 1 Paper presentations
  • R. Jagnow, J. Dorsey, and H. Rushmeier. Stereological Techniques for Solid Textures. SIGGRAPH 2004. web [Jack]
  • J. Lee et al. Interactive Control of Avatars Animated with Human Motion Data. SIGGRAPH 2002. web [Diego]
  • T. Ezzat, G. Geiger, T. Poggio. Trainable Videorealistic Facial Animation. SIGGRAPH 2002 web [Liam]
    • Nov 3 Paper presentations
    Deadline: Final project meeting
  • L. Kovar, M. Gleicher. Automated Extraction and Parameterization of Motions in Large Data Sets. SIGGRAPH 2004. web [Andriy]
  • K. Grochow et al. Style-based inverse kinematics. SIGGRAPH 2004. web [Sergey]
  • M. Alexa et al. Computing and Rendering Point Set Surfaces. TVCG 2003. paper PointShop3d [Patricio]
    • Nov 8 Paper presentations
  • N. Amenta and Y. Kim. Defining Point Set Surfaces. SIGGRAPH 2004. paper video [Andriy]
  • M. Pauly, N. Mitra, L. Guibas. Uncertainty and Variability in Point Cloud Surface Data. Symposium on Point-Based Graphics 2004. paper [Serhiy]
  • K. Sims. Evolving Virtual Creatures. SIGGRAPH 1994. web video, related work, more video [Noah]
    • Nov 10 Paper presentations
  • A. Criminisi, P. Perez, K. Toyama. Object Removal by Exemplar-based Inpainting. CVPR 2003. paper [Ben]
  • M. Kazhdan et al. Modeling by Example. SIGGRAPH 2004. web [Patricio]
  • R. Grzeszczuk, D. Terzopoulos. Automated Learning of Muscle-Actuated Locomotion Through Control Abstraction. SIGGRAPH 95. paper [Jack]
    • Nov 15 Paper presentations
  • R. Grzeszczuk, D. Terzopoulos, G. Hinton. NeuroAnimator: Fast Neural Network Emulation and Control of Physics-Based Models. SIGGRAPH 98. web, paper. [Vinod]
  • C. Harris and D. Wolpert. Signal-dependent noise determines motor planning. Nature, 394:780-784, 1998. paper, talk. Commentary by T. Sejnowski. [Liam]
  • K. P. Körding, D. M. Wolpert. Bayesian integration in sensorimotor learning. Nature 427:244-247. 2004. paper, article [Marcus]
    • Nov 17 Global illumination and Monte Carlo

    Paper presentations
    (submit reaction report for Wu, Cook, or Kajiya)
  • J.-C. Wu and Z. Popovic. Realistic Modeling of Bird Flight Animations. SIGGRAPH 2003. web [Diego]
  • MacKay, chapter 29.1-29.4, 29.8, 29.10

    Recommended reading:

  • R. Cook, T. Porter and L. Carpenter. Distributed Raytracing. paper. SIGGRAPH 84.
  • J. Kajiya. The Rendering Equation. paper. SIGGRAPH 86.
    • Nov 22 Paper presentations
  • G. Lawrence, N. Cowan, S. Russell, Efficient Gradient Estimation for Motor Control Learning. In Proc. UAI-03, 2003. paper, videos [Vinod]
  • A. Ng et al. Inverted autonomous helicopter flight via reinforcement learning. ISER 2004. paper, videos [Noah]
  • E. Veach, L. J. Guibas. Metropolis Light Transport. SIGGRAPH 97. web [Marcus]
    • Nov 24 Paper presentations
  • W. Matusik, H. Pfister, M. Brand, L. McMillan. A Data-Driven Reflectance Model. SIGGRAPH 2003. paper [Jack]
  • S. Chenney and D.A.Forsyth. Sampling Plausible Solutions to Multi-Body Constraint Problems. SIGGRAPH 2000. web [Liam]
  • D. K. Pai et al. Scanning Physical Interaction Behavior of 3D Objects. SIGGRAPH 2001. paper Video [Diego]
    • Nov 29 Paper presentations
  • K. Bhat et al. Estimating Cloth Simulation Parameters from Video. SCA 2003. web [Noah]
  • D. L. James, K. Fatahalian. Precomputing Interactive Dynamic Deformable Scenes. SIGGRAPH 2003. web [Patricio]
  • Y. Weiss. Deriving intrinsic images from image sequences. ICCV 2001. paper [Andriy]
    • Dec 1 Paper presentations
  • M. F. Tappen, W. T. Freeman, E. H. Adelson. Recovering Shading and Reflectance from a Single Image. NIPS 02. paper [Sergey]
  • A. Levin, A. Zomet and Y. Weiss. Separating Reflections from a Single Image Using Local Features. CVPR 2004. paper [Ben]
  • P. Heckbert. Ray-Tracing Jell-O(tm) Brand gelatin. SIGGRAPH 88. paper. USENET commentary. more.
    • Dec 6 No class  
    Wednesday, Dec 8, 3pm-4pm No class  
    Friday, Dec 10, 11:30am-1:30pm Final project presentations
    Location: DGP (BA 5181)
  • Patricio
  • Vinod
  • Jack
  • Ben
    • Tuesday, January 4, 2pm Final project presentations
    Location: DGP (BA 5181)
  • Diego
    • Thursday, January 13, 4pm-5pm Final project presentations
    Location: DGP (BA 5181)
  • Andriy and Sergey
  • Noah and Marcus