DigiVFX
Digital Visual Effects, Spring 2021

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final project

Assigned: 2021/5/26
Due: 2021/6/29 11:59pm

Project description

For your final project, you have three options: research, system and film.

* Research: Define a new problem or develop a new approach to solve an existing problem. You can look up recent SIGGRAPH/CVPR/ICCV papers for inspiration. For a new problem, you don't need to solve it completely, but you have to make reasonable progress. For example, you can solve a simplified version or a subproblem of it. For the unsolved paerts, sketch your ideas on how to solve them. For this category, the ideal team size is 1-2 people.

* System: Implement an easy-to-use system or library for some existing algorithms. Good candidates are the algorithms presented in recent SIGGRAPH/CVPR/ICCV papers. Here, I list several candidates for your reference: The ideal team size is 1-3 people.

* Film: Make a short "effects" film. You can use any available tools to make it. At times, you might have to write programs to achieve your goal. You can look at ADs, films or YouTube for inspiration. Another good source for inspiration is to mimic shots in effects films or advertisement. The ideal team size is 3-4 people for this category. Other than your final video, you have to hand in a making-of video to document how you achieve the effects in your film.

Demo and submission: For this year, we will have a virtual demo session. Each team has to submit a video whose length is less than 5 minutes. For research and system projects, please make the video with your presentation. Note that you need to submit your source code in addition to the video. For film projects, just combine your final video and the making-of video into one video.