DigiVFX
Digital Visual Effects, Spring 2008

Introduction

With the help of digital technology, visual effects have been widely used in film production lately. For example, up to April 2004, the top ten all-time best selling movies are so-called "effects movies." Six of them even won Academic awards for their visual effects. This course will cover the techniques from computer graphics, computer vision and image processing with practical or potential usages in making visual effects.


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June 11, 2008scribes 11 is posted.
June 10, 2008Winners for project #3 artifacts are announced.
June 10, 2008Slides for lecture #16 is posted.
June 9, 2008scribes #8 is posted.
June 3, 2008Slides for lecture #15 is posted.
June 2, 2008scribes #10 is posted.
May 29, 2008Voting for project #3 artifacts is online.
May 29, 2008scribes #9 is posted.
May 27, 2008Slides for lecture #14 is posted.
May 27, 2008Project #3 artifacts are online.
May 20, 2008Slides for lecture #13 is posted.
May 14, 2008scribes #6 and #7 are posted.
May 13, 2008Final project is posted.
May 13, 2008Slides for lecture #12 is posted.
May 6, 2008Winners for project #2 artifacts are announced.
May 6, 2008Slides for lecture #11 is posted.
May 1, 2008Voting for project #2 artifacts is online.
Apr 29, 2008Slides for lecture #10 is posted.
Apr 23, 2008scribe #4 is posted.
Apr 22, 2008Slides for lecture #9 is posted.
Apr 21, 2008scribe #5 is posted.
Apr 15, 2008Winners for project #1 artifacts are announced.
Apr 15, 2008Slides for lecture #8 is posted.
Apr 10, 2008Voting for project #1 artifacts is online.
Apr 7, 2008scribe #3 is posted.
Apr 8, 2008Slides for lecture #7 is posted.
Apr 7, 2008scribe #2 is posted.
Apr 6, 2008scribes for papers are posted.
Apr 3, 2008scribe #1 is posted.
Mar 25, 2008Slides for lecture #6 is posted.
Mar 20, 2008Assignment submission website is online.
Mar 18, 2008Project #2 is posted.
Mar 18, 2008Slides for lecture #5 is posted.
Mar 11, 2008Templates for paper reports are posted.
Mar 11, 2008Slides for lecture #4 is posted.
Mar 11, 2008Slides for lecture #3 is updated.
Mar 5, 2008Sign-up page for borrowing equipments is online.
Mar 4, 2008A note on Robertson's algorithm is posted.
Mar 4, 2008Slides for lecture #3 is posted.
Mar 2, 2008Rules for scribe is posted.
Feb 27, 2008Project #1 is posted.
Feb 26, 2008Slides for lecture #2 is posted.
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