Computer Graphics and Image Processing: COMPSCI 373 Semester 1, City Campus

Lecturers

Dr. Patrice Delmas ( 1/2 of the course )( supervisor )
Dr. Burkhard Wuensche ( 1/3 of the course )
Assoc.-Prof. Georgy Gimel'farb ( 1/6 of the course )
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Office hours

• Dr. Burkhard Wuensche: Monday/Wednesday/Friday 11am-12noon (Rm 303.490, City Campus) and whenever my door is open [Overseas from 20th February to 28th March]
• Dr. Patrice Delmas: Whenever door is open (Rm 303.391, City Campus)
• Assoc.-Prof. Georgy Gimel'farb: Whenever door is open (Rm 303.389, City Campus)

Scheduled lectures

Please check Student Services Online for the latest time and venue changes!

Lecture dates (NOTE: content is subject to change - see "Lectures" web pages):

Week 1 (28th February - 6th March): Patrice: Introduction, 2D and 3D Geometry
Week 2 (7th March - 13th March): Patrice: 2D and 3D Geometry, Colour
Week 3: (15th March - 20th March): Patrice: Illumination and Shading
Week 4: (21st March - 27th March): Patrice: Ray Tracing
Week 5: (28th March - 3rd April): Burkhard: Introduction to Graphics Research, Introduction to OpenGL
Week 6: (4th April - 10th April): Burkhard: Introduction to Modelling, Modelling with Polygonal Meshes
11th -26th April: MID-SEMESTER/EASTER BREAK
Tuesday, 10th May, 6.30pm: Mid-Term test (see Tests and exams)
Week 7: (27th April - 1st May): Burkhard: Texture mapping, Principles of Computer Animation
Week 8: (2nd May - 8th May): Burkhard: Curves and Surfaces, Viewing and Projection
Week 9: (9th May - 15th May): Patrice: an introduction to Image Processing (bits, pixels and histogram)
Week 10: (16th May - 22nd May): Patrice/Georgy: Image Segmentation
Week 11 (23rd May - 29th May): Georgy: Basics of Mathematical Morphology (erosion, dilation, opening, closing)
Week 12: (30th May - 3rd June): Patrice/Georgy: Image features, exam preparation
4th June - 27th June: Study break & Exams Top

Assessment

25% assignments, 20% test, 55% examination.

Test Date

Tuesday, 10th May 2011, 6.30pm: Mid-Term test (see Tests and exams) [Rooms:
PLT1 (303-G20): Students with family names "Abu Alsaad" to "Liu"
MLT1 (303-G23): Students with family names "Lovegrove" to "Zhou"]

Exam date

Saturday, 11th June, 2.15pm.
Exam room: You can check this here on the afternoon before the exam. Or you can check the notice boards around campus for your room allocations the morning before the exam time.
Exam room for 601/602 STUDENTS: The exam Room for students taking COMPSCI 373 as COMPSCI 601 or 602 is 303-279!

Texts required

No required text, but the text books below are strongly recommended

Texts recommended

Hill, F.S., "Computer Graphics using Open GL", 3rd ed., Prentice Hall, 2007 (this is the most important book, the 2nd edition will be sufficient for most of the lecture and is available at the following library locations)
OpenGL Architecture Review Board ( Mason Woo, Jackie Neider, Tom Davis ), OpenGL Programming Guide, Sixth (or any older) Edition, Addison-Wesley. ( The 1st Edition is sufficient and is available here).
Nick Efford. Digital Image Processing: A Practical Introduction Using Java. Addison Wesley, 2000.

Passing the course

COMPSCI 373 is a practical course, which means you must pass the practical (assignments) and the theory (test and exam) sections separately.

The pass mark is likely to be 50% but might be lower. If you have not achieved 50% in the practical part you are still advised to sit the exam.

Cheating Policy

Information can be found from Academic honesty.

Description

Fundamentals of computer graphics and image processing. C/C++ will be used for programming together with the libraries OpenCV and OpenGL. Top

Contents

This course introduces the fundamentals of image processing and computer graphics, which are necessary for the analysis and processing of image data and for the reconstruction, modelling, animation and photo-realistic rendering of 3D. You will learn key computer graphics concepts including graphics primitives, lighting and shading, texture mapping, ray tracing, character animation and curve and surface design. In addition image processing fundamentals are presented such as image definition and representation, perception and colour models, grey level and colour enhancement, neighbourhood operations and filtering. Basic geometric processes for image analysis and scene formation will be discussed including transformations, viewing and projection, and digital geometry.

Websites

1. The class website is http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/courses/compsci373s1c/, containing lecture handouts, assignments, notices, etc.
2. A forum for class discussions is available at http://forums.cs.auckland.ac.nz/. Use this (with discretion) to discuss issues related to coursework, by posting questions and by offering answers.