Here is roughly the topics I'll cover and when.
Rendering objects
| Week ending | Topics |
|---|---|
| 29 Jan | Ray tracing in all its glory; plenoptic functions |
| 5 Feb | A little radiometry; NERFY representations |
| 12 Feb | Differentiable rendering |
| 19 Feb | Neural rendering |
Computational Photography
| Week ending | Topics |
|---|---|
| 26 Feb | Recovering illumination fields from pictures |
| 5 Mar | Recovering material properties from pictures |
| 12 Mar | More NERFY representations |
| 19 Mar | Indeterminate problems: colorization; the future in video |
Modelling objects
| Week ending | Topics |
|---|---|
| 26 Mar | Object representations; voxels, pointnet, CVxNet, and the like |
| 2 Apr | Predictive models: what will it look like in another view? |
| 9 Apr | Mapping material representations to surfaces |
Animation
| Week ending | Topics |
|---|---|
| 16 Apr | Moving objects, blending and skinning |
| 23 Apr | Animating humans |
| 30 Apr | Collisions and cloth |