Computer Graphics Laboratory ETH Zurich

ETH

Mathematical Foundations of Computer Graphics and Vision - SS14 - Schedule

Topics:

  • The geometry of SO(3)
  • Inverse Kinematics
  • Motion Capture
  • Variational methods in computer vision
  • Robust optimization
  • Global optimization techniques
  • Min-Cut / Max-Flow (Graph Cut) Algorithm
  • Markov and Conditional Random Fields
  • K-means clustering
  • Rank minimization techniques

Schedule (tentative)

Date Monday Wednesday
17.02.2014 Introduction and Robust Optimization Assignment 1 presentation: Robust Optimization
24.02.2014 Global and Non-linear optimization techniques Q&A
03.03.2014 Multi Dimensional Scaling Q&A
10.03.2014 Graph cut I Assignment 1 due / Assignment 2 presentation: K-means clustering
17.03.2014 Graph cut II Q&A
24.03.2014 Clustering Tools Q&A
31.03.2014 Variational Methods I Q&A
07.04.2014 Variational Methods II Assignment 3 presentation / Assignment 2 due (Tuesday)
14.04.2014 Variational Methods III Q&A
05.05.2014 Belief Propagation Q&A
12.05.2014 The Geometry of SO(n) and SE(n) Q&A
19.05.2014 Metrics on SO(3) and IK Assignment 3 due / Assignment 4 presentation
26.05.2014 IK II and Motion Capture Q&A