Below is a list with possible topics. You might want to choose one of these topics or propose your own topic, but in either case you first need approval from Burkhard or Patrice. If you propose your own topic please note that it has to be related to the CS373 course, but has to be of a more advanced nature (e.g. an advanced application, such as Virtual Surgery Simulation, or an advanced algorithm such as GPU-accelerated displacement mapping)

Screen Space Ambient Occlusion

Simulation of explosions

Augmented Reality techniques for Movie Production

Comparison of 3D Graphics API for developing Web applications

Tools for WebGL application development

Survey and evaluation of graphics APIs for mobile devices

virtual surgery simulation

Web Graphics programming

Agent-Based Crowd Simulation: A Review

Virtual heritage

Smoke Simulation

Survey and analysis of crowd simulation techniques

Character Animation using key framing and inverse kinematic

Realistic rendering of human faces

Rendering of Water

An Overview of Texture Synthesis Techniques and their Applications

Motion Retargeting

Survey of motion capturing techniques

Facial animation in game engines

Web Graphic Standards

Nonphotorealistic rendering

Realistic 3D Facial Animation

Motion Capturing of Humanoid Characters

Skeletal animation using motion capture data

Real-Time Terrain Rendering

Space subdivision technique for speeding up ray tracing

High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging and rendering

Comparison of 3D Graphics API for Web programming

Motion Capturing techniques in the Movie Industry

3D vision/acquisition and game platforms

Computer Vision for forensic sciences

Image processing and environmental sciences

Computer Vision and marine sciences

3D vision in everyday's life

3D vision in mobile platforms

Image Processing in mobile platforms

3D vision and biometrics

Medical imaging and automated diagnostic

Java and 3D vision

Computer vision systems for road traffic monitoring

Commercial vision systems for recognition of licence plates

Fingerprint based biometrics for modern PCs

PC cursor movement control by tracking gaze direction

Biometrics by iris recognition

Hacking 3D biometrics

Statistical analysis techniques for face recognition

Statistical analysis techniques for 3D object (pose) recognition

Kinect: what is behind, what are the limitations

3D screens (health) safety issues

Automated vision systems: can 3D help?

Mapping ancient archeological sites with your digital Cam: Is it that easy?

Computer vision technologies for tomorrow's automatic law enforcement

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++