Submitted Term Papers

A Survey of Multi-pass Methods to Photo-realistically Combine Diffuse and Specular Global Illumination

-- Aaron Kieldsing

A Survey of Real-Time Rendering Algorithms

-- J. Scott Hofmann

A Survey of Animation Related Implicit Surface Papers

-- Matthew Jondrow

A Survey of Radiosity and Ray-tracying Methods in Global Illumination

-- Ge Jin

Motion Editing Techniques for Realistic Human Motion Generation

-- Jae Woo Kim

A Survey of Pen-and-Ink Illustration in Non-photorealistic Rendering

-- Jia Huang

Instruction : 

This is a seminar course designed to achieve the following purposes :

1) Read a number of important papers that a computer graphics person should be acquainted with. This should give the student a deep and broad understanding of the important areas in computer graphics.

2) Allow the student to explore an area of interest that he/she will perhaps pursue in the future. If the student is already involved in a research project, the course will allow him/her to make a through background research into the subject. If the student does not have a topic yet, the course will help him/her to naroow in on a topic

3) Give the student experience in reading, writing, and presenting research papers.

The course will depend heavily on the active participation of the student

Text : Papers distributed in class (See the reading list).

Instructor :

James K. Hahn, T-720B Academic Center, Phone: 202-994-5920, hahn@seas.gwu.edu

Assignments : 

Each class, three papers will be presented by students who selected them. The presentation is espected to be professional with prepared slides. Every student is expected to read the assigned papers by class-time and to actively participate in class discussions. Each student will also hand in a 400-500 word(one to two page double spaced 12 point font) summary of each of the papers that he/she does not present before class-time. The summary will discuss the most important points in the paper. These will not be accepted late.

Project : 

Each student will write a survey paper on a topic agreed on by the student and the instructor. The lengh of the paper will be not less than 20 pages double spaced 12 point font (see [Heck86] for an example of a survey paper). The student will also present the paper in class. The paper may also involve programming in which case a shorter survey section will be followed by a description of the approach used in the project. The survey may help in writing the introduction section of their thesis/dissertation.

Exams : There will be no exams.

Grades : Based on the following weighting :