Schedule#
The following is a tentative schedule that is subject to change.
| Date | Topic |
|---|---|
| Jan 20 | Introduction & course logistics |
| Part 1: Preliminaries | |
| Jan 22 | Monte Carlo integration |
| Jan 27 | Sampling from PDFs & variance reduction |
| Part 2: Physics-based rendering essentials | |
| Jan 29 | Radiometry & direct illumination |
| Feb 3 | Rendering equation & path tracing |
| Feb 5 | Multiple importance sampling |
| Feb 10 | Operator formulation of light transport |
| Feb 12 | Path integrals |
| Part 3: Volume rendering | |
| Feb 17 | Radiative transfer & volume path tracing |
| Feb 19 | Diffusion approximation & similarity relations |
| Part 4: Advanced topics | |
| Feb 24 | Bidirectional path tracing |
| Feb 26 | Bidirectional path tracing (cont'd) |
| Mar 3 | Markov-Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) rendering |
| Mar 5 | Paper presentations:
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| Mar 10 | Reservoir-based spatiotemporal reuse (ReSTIR) |
| Mar 12 | Paper presentations:
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| Mar 17 | No class: spring break |
| Mar 19 | No class: spring break |
| Mar 24 | Transmittance estimation |
| Mar 26 | No class |
| Mar 31 | Paper presentations:
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| Apr 2 | Estimating variance & variance-aware techniques |
| Apr 7 | Advanced appearance models |
| Apr 9 | Paper presentations:
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| Apr 14 | Differentiable rendering |
| Apr 16 | Differentiable rendering (cont'd) |
| Apr 21 | Paper presentations:
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| Part 5: Specialized topics | |
| Apr 23 | Neural radiance fields (NeRF) |
| Apr 28 | Paper presentations:
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| Apr 30 | Gaussian splatting |
| May 5 | Paper presentations:
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