SIGGRAPH 98 Course 15: Image-Based Modeling and Rendering

Thanks very much to everyone who helped make this course a success.

Course Notes Contents

1. Introduction and Overview
   • Notes: Introduction to Image-Based Modeling and Rendering
   • Presentation: What is Image-based Modeling and Rendering?

2. Projective Image Warping
   • Notes: Projective Image Warping
   • Paper: Video Mosaics for Virtual Environments
     Richard Szeliski
   • Paper: Plenoptic Modeling
     Leonard McMillan and Gary Bishop, Proc. SIGGRAPH 95

3. Warping Images with Depth
   • Notes: Image-Based Rendering using Image Warping
   • Notes: Computing Visibility without Depth
   • Presentation: Image-Based Rendering using Image Warping

4. Recovering Geometry I
   • Presentation: Camera Calibration and Passive Vision Stereo, and Structure from Motion
   • Paper: Non-Parametric Local Transforms for Computing Visual Correspondence
     Ramin Zabih and John Woodfill
   • Paper: Stereo Matching with Transparency and Matting
     Richard Szeliski and Pollina Golland

5. Recovering Geometry II
   • Presentation: Modeling and Rendering Architecture from Photographs
   • Presentation: Active Shape Acquisition (Notes courtesy of Brian Curless)
   • Paper: Modeling and Rendering Architecture from Photographs
     Paul E. Debevec, Camillo J. Taylor, and Jitendra Malik, Proc. SIGGRAPH 96
   • Paper: A Volumetric Method for Building Complex Models from Range Images
     Brian Curless and Marc Levoy, Proc. SIGGRAPH 96

6. Lightfield Representations
   • Presentation: Polyhedral Geometry and the Two-Plane Parameterization
   • Presentation: The Lumigraph
   • Paper: Polyhedral Geometry and the Two-Plane Parameterization (p11) (p12)
     Xianfeng Gu, S. J. Gortler, and M. F. Cohen
   • Paper: Light Field Rendering
     Marc Levoy and Pat Hanrahan, Proc. SIGGRAPH 96
   • Paper: The Lumigraph
     S. J. Gortler, R. Grzeszczuk, R. Szeliski, and M. F. Cohen, Proc. SIGGRAPH 96

7. Applications of IBMR in Art and Cinema
   • Presentation: Applications of IBMR in Art and Cinema
   • Paper: Elements of Realspace Imaging: A Proposed Taxonomy
     Michael Naimark
   • Notes: Rouen Revisited

8. Applications of IBMR in Human Animation
   • Notes: Video Based Animation Techniques for Human Motion
   • Presentation: IBR Techniques for Non-Rigid Domains:
     Video-Based Animation of Human Motion
   • Paper: Video Rewrite: Driving Visual Speech with Audio
     Christoph Bregler, Michele Covell, and Malcolm Slaney, Proc. SIGGRAPH 96
   • Paper: Video Motion Capture
     Christoph Bregler Jitendra Malik

9. Questions and Dialog

Other Resources:

• 1998 Stanford Workshop on Image-Based Modeling and Rendering
• Computer Vision Home Page
• Nick England's image-based rendering mailing list: To join, email majordomo@cs.unc.edu with subscribe image-based-rendering in the message body. To unsubscribe, use unsubscribe image-based-rendering
• Ian Ashdown's IBMR bibliography
• Peter Oel's IBMR Focus, a page of links to IBMR work and resources.